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Summer holidays usually mean family time and travel. For children in children’s homes, the experience is a bit different – but still full of adventure, deep friendships, and vital life lessons. Their summer is a busy, beautiful mix of pure joy and preparation for adulthood. Much of the holiday revolves around summer camps, from traditional

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Katka is the beating heart of C4C’s Robin Hood program and the solid rock of our Back Office! For her no spreadsheet or logistical challenge is too big… “What I appreciate most about Katka is her incredible inner strength, as well as her ability to maintain perspective, humanity, and empathy in all circumstances. I admire

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The Chance 4 Children (C4C) team is turning off the monitors and hitting the road! HelpMate (Pomocník), a program that has provided systemic support for educators in children’s homes since 2021, is now entering its fourth consecutive year. This time, however, it is transforming into an “expedition” that leaves the online space to return to

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Author: Petra Erguvanli – For the second year running, Chance 4 Children (C4C) teamed up with Primark to help make Christmas warmer and brighter for children living in residential care homes. The initiative, held at Primark’s Václavské náměstí and Zličín stores, once again demonstrated the powerful impact of collective goodwill—bringing together customers, employees, and a

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Just like our previous article, the treatise below is more detailed and lengthy than usual. Written by Jana Kolarikova, HelpMate’s program director and manager, it is a deep dive into HelpMate’s rationale and its reason for being. It’s a fascinating read for all those who want to understand the initiative better and why it is

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On the 16th of March 2025 we informed our readers, that C4C had become the target of a vicious online defamation campaign, perpetrated by the founder of the Czech Satanic Community, Jakub Jahl – see here. The accusations against C4C were so egregious and inflammatory that we were forced to file criminal and civil charges

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Author: Jolana Skalova – Three programs, one shared goal, and a total of 41 kindred spirits gathered in one place—that’s the best way to summarize the latest C4C team meeting. At the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, colleagues from across the Czech Republic had the chance to reconnect—or, in some cases, meet in person for the

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Author: Petra Erguvanli – Received for C4C by Petra Erguvanli and  Michal Jiru, the award of the Dům zahraniční spolupráce (DZS – House of Foreign Cooperation) was given for C4C’s exceptional execution of educational projects with a broad societal impact, in particular the Chance to Discover EU project – part of the popular Erasmus+ initiative

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Author: Petra Erguvanli – C4C’s Financial Literacy classes shed light on this question. Financial literacy is one of the essential skills that should be taught not only to children in orphanages, but… 😉 Fortunately, the Dolní Počernice Children’s Home has been running a regular, C4C sponsored financial literacy course for the third year under the

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Author: Jolana Skalova Shh… There’s something new on the horizon! Over the past two years, C4C, within the framework of its Erasmus project „Discover EU“, has taken groups of over 40 young people abroad, teaching them essential life skills and helping them gain confidence. Through these experiences they’ve started to open up to us, trusting

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