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Not an empty seat left, the packed out Hilton Congress Hall reverberated again with the sounds and melodies of the Czech National Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by world-renowned Maestro Paul Freeman. Attended by over 1000 guests, the concert was an ambitious musical journey through different genres and styles, and as an enthusiastic Hilton general manager Michael Speckingcalled it, “The highlight of the Hilton’s

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Organized under the auspices of Olympic Champion Katerina Neumannová, the second annual Charity Golf Tournament of two prestigious Prague Rotary Clubs yielded unprecedented results, in terms of charitable revenue, as 102 players slugged it out for victory on the demanding eighteen hole Karlstein Golf Course. The weather played along beautifully as the members of two

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With vacation time over and everyone getting back into the saddle, so to speak, it’s time for everybody here at Chance 4 Children (C4C) too, to roll up their sleeves and get to work again. Here’s some news from all fronts, for those of you interested in the latest: ROBIN HOOD: As international ROBIN HOOD shipments came

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Tallying up the score for the first two quarters of 2007, C4C’s humanitarian arm, the ROBIN HOOD program, surpassed the 30.000.000,- Kč mark on aid distributed to needy and struggling institutions with resident children! Institutions receiving aid were located in the Czech Republic, neighboring Slovakia and Bosnia. „This is definitely a record for any 2nd quarter result in our history“,

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After the red tape, paperwork and birth pangs usually preceding a daunting task like incorporation, it’s finally reality. Effective immediately, Chance 4 Children Slovakia is a legal entity and up and running. After working for months on finalizing the legal framework, C4C found its legal footing as a non-profit, humanitarian civic association in Kosice, arguably

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After having recently exhibited his works in Denmark and Germany, Frederik Nilsson of Malmo’s art can also be seen in Zurich, London, Washington, New York and Chicago, amongst others – and now in Prague! His pictures will be on display at the Prague Hilton lobby from May 17th to July 1st, 2007. The vernissage on May 17th

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An age old adage says – “no news is good news”. While this certainly holds true most of the time, the following may be the proverbial exception to the rule. In response to C4C’s humanitarian trip to Bosnia last month, delivering almost 10 million CZK (US$ 485.000,-) worth of aid to struggling orphanages there, we received the

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When it comes to organizing successful and fun eventsfor the benefit of children living in institutions, leave it to Vaclav “Vasek“ Cermak, Chance 4 Children (C4C)project manager, to come up with great ideas! This time was no different. On Sunday April 29th, Vasek set the stage for the stars of the country’s leading musicals, ”Excalibur” and ”Angelika”, to unite their efforts

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It has been 3 whole years now that Chance 4 Children (C4C) has enjoyed the patronage of the Rotary Club Bohemia in Prague. Cooperating on a wide spectrum of projects, from facilitating international aid shipments to supporting C4C’s Springboard to Life program, the club has been an excellent and reliable partner through the years. On occasion of celebrating

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Online donations to Chance 4 Children (C4C) are now possible via PayPal, with over 100 million subscribers the Internet’s most trusted online payment facilitator! Due to popular demand and notes reading something like, “I would like to contribute to your good work, but making bank transfers is so time-consuming! Don‘t you guys have an online payment service

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