The Rozum a Cit (Sense and Sensibility) endowment fund multilaterally supports surrogate parent care. It helps abandoned children spend their childhoods and adolescence in a foster family and towards a better life. It helps foster families, which are for many children from children’s homes the only possibility to have their own families. These families take into their care children who would otherwise never know what it is to have their “home”. They are often children who are mentally or physically disabled, but also older children or children who are not Czech nationals. Foster parents help children to prepare for independent life, support their positive development, education and integration into normal life.
Dlaň životu common benefit organization was established in 2002 by the Betlém nenarozeným (Bethlehem to the Unborn) endowment fund with the aim of helping the smallest children and their mothers. By means of housing offers, advisory services and a base, Dlaň životu (Palm to Life) provides support especially to pregnant women in need and mothers with children in order to help them overcome adverse situations. This support aims towards independence and the mother’s participation in normal life.
Společenství Dobromysl citizen-action public is a non-state non-profit organization run by The Dobromysl workweek social welfare centre and Informační a kulturní centrum Dobromysl (Good Mind Centre of Information and Culture). The social welfare centre is a family-type facility for clients with combined disabilities who need special care. The aim of the social welfare centre is to develop their abilities and skills (practical and social); it leads them to responsibilities, strengthens their decision-making abilities and teaches an active manner of life.
The Léčivka volunteer centre has been carrying out projects since 2005, the goal of which is the psychological support of patients and healthcare personnel. It has been operating for the longest at Thomayer Hospital, further at the Faculty Hospital Královské Vinohrady, at IKEM, and has newly also launched a volunteer program at the General University Hospital in Prague. Léčivka volunteer centre focuses on improving the psychological condition of patients, providing religious care, play therapy and zoo therapy. Since 2011, it has also been operating Naší kavárna (Our Café), a supported employment project, at the Thomayer Hospital grounds.
