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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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It’s taken a bit to tally up all our stats for the last year, but it was well worth the effort! With over 53.000.000 CZK (2.1 million Euro) worth of aid distributed to needy children and institutions, new patrons and sponsors having joined us and our new and improved Dr. Clown program cheering up hospitalized children here in the CR – 2007

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After six weeks of intensive seminars and training, Chance 4 Children’s (C4C) Dr.Clown team recently emerged with their new and improved program for 2008! The team now operates under the auspices of the Czech National Circus Berousek and their celebrated clowns. The National Circus coaches the C4C clowns in an advisory position to assure professionalism and quality, while the team is bringing their “Smile Therapy” to

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One of our most important tools here at Chance 4 Children (C4C) is the telephone. Whenever it rings, and it does so quite often, it could be the beginning of something big and important. This time it didn’t sound too earth shaking, however. The caller innocently asked if Chance 4 Children had the capacity to distribute some quality sweets and chocolates to orphanages

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