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The Dr. Clown team, visiting the children’s ward of the Vinohrady hospital, was in for a shocker today: the TV crew of TV Barrandov dropped by for a surprise visit to document the wonders of Dr. Clown’s “Smile Therapy” for their daily 90 minute news program. “We heard so much about the Dr. Clown program. We just had to

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Rumor has it that this popular folk hero has been seen roaming about Romania, doing what he does best – helping needy children cope and survive! In January 2009 the C4C Robin Hood team set out on its first pioneer trip to Romania, visiting orphanages and hospitals, setting the stage to support struggling children in this poor country on a more regular and

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Dr. Clown coloring book coming soon! For hospitalized children nation-wide! One of the things that makes C4C’s Dr. Clown teams so popular with children they visit in hospitals, is, that they don’t have a predefined time limit for their visits. Their stays range anywhere from one to five hours depending on the situation they encounter. “It would sometimes just break out hearts

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T’was that time o’year again and the crowds slowly packed into the Prague Hilton Conference Center facilities to attend this year’s highlight of the season: the Hilton Christmas Charity Concert for the benefit of C4C! With 1250 connoisseurs of fine music in attendance, the concert witnessed the highest turn-out ever and extra seating had to

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Stunning exhibition of the popular artist’s pictures can be seen in the lobby of the Hilton until December the 16th. Highlighting the artist commitment to charity, one of his paintings, titled “Tranquility”, is also being auctioned off via an online auction for the benefit of Chance 4 Children (C4C) at: www.amaliemaurer.cz. Here’s your chance to acquire a valuable

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Now that the dust has settled and vacation time is over, it’s time again to tally up the SPRINGBOARD TO LIFE (STL) stats and look at progress made. Since crunching numbers is always a time- consuming and sacrificial effort for our highly idealistic team (smile), it took a little while to get this into print.

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To those closely observing the European “DMV Tourenwagen Challenge” Championships at the Hockenheim Ring in Germany last week, a logo stood out on one of the winning cars: www.c4c.cz – which, of course, is the address to our popular website. Front runner Hans-Christian Zink, of UHC Speed Performance Racing Team, decided to give Chance 4 Children (C4C) this exposure

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The idea of Chance 4 Children (C4C) bowling tournaments as a way to integrate and socialize orphans is nothing new, as Chance 4 Children has chosen bowling as its vehicle of choice when it comes to integrating sports activities for orphans. In the past, team leaders have been celebrities, TV stars and other notables. This time around they were presidents. Not of countries,

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It was that time of the year again for 50 Moravian orphans to meet their favorite TV stars – and battle it out for victory on the bowling lanes of Planet Bowling in the Olympia Shopping Center in Brno. Like every year, expectations were high amongst the kids for weeks in advance of the actual event. Comments Pavel Soltys, director of Detsky Domov Bojkovice: “When our

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Total aid rendered to children at risk and in need again exceeds 50 million CZK! Well, it’s that time of the year again! Before C4C’s annual audit,  comes what we commonly refer to as “number crunching time”! Not really considered the most thrilling and inspiring activity by C4C’s highly motivated volunteers (smile), the exercise nevertheless yields every

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