Official charity organizations
The official charity organization for the PIM Running series 2010
Choose one of the following organizations whose activities you find appealing and find more information at the given websites.
Czech guide dog school
The mission is to associate and safeguard interests of the unseeing and other vision-impaired citizens, and also to offer factual services to integrate them into society.
Hendaver, o.s.
CHECOMACOCO
provides assistance to South američan Indians tribe Cemakoko originaly from Czech republic. www.checomacoco.cz
Committee of Good Will – The Olga Havel Foundation
It’s main aim is to defend the rights of people with physical disabilities and people who due to their long-term unfavorable health and social difficulties are not fully self-sufficient. www.vdv.cz
Nadace VIA
Nadace VIA supports community development in the Czech republic and Moravia www.nadacevia.cz
Tyfloservis
Tyfloservis is helping blind people to recover into life www.tyfloservis.cz
The Red Cross
The aim of the Czech Red Cross is to prevent or reduce human suffering, protect health, life and humans rights, to support mutual understanding, friendship and peace among nations and to act in line with the fundamental principles of the Red Cross – humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.
Contact person for project - Mgr. Olga Šiková This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel.: 251 104 216
Centrum Paraple
Every week, four people in the Czech Republic are affected by a spinal cord injury. Their whole life can change in one second while doing sports, driving a car, working or being at home. Their life starts all over, differently, and in a wheelchair. Centrum Paraple is helping these people to find the way, to cope with the new life situation, improve their physical and mental condition, to become self-sufficient and independent, return to family, friends, school, work, sports. We provide help for all people in the Czech Republic.
Contact person: Hana Laburdová, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 274 001 314, 608 980 913
The Salavation Army
The Salvation Army provides basic needs for those who find themselves in difficult life situations associated with lost of home. The Salvation Army develops its activities in five main areas: centers for youth, services for seniors, hostels and night shelters for homeless mothers with children, women and men as well as many community services and prison care activities. There are 30 projects from which we provide more than 50 registered social services. Each day we help more than 1 000 people who are helped by 325 employees.
Support Options:
- transfer or deposit cash at fundraising account č.475 335 613 / 0300 Variable Sym 42195
- sending a DMS YEAR ARMADASPASY to 87,777 for annual support
- sending a DMS ARMADASPASY to 87,777 for one-off support
The Salvation Army was founded in 1865 by Methodist preacher William Booth and now operates in 120 countries.
In our country The Salvation Army first started in 1919. In 1950 the work was banned by the communist regime. The Salvation Army reopened its work in 1990 so this year we celebrate our 20th Anniversary of being again in the Czech Republic.
Contact Person: Jakub Vopelák, Director for Fundraising Development – 734 323 343 – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; www.armadspasy.cz
Light for the World
Light for the World is a non-governmental organization helping blind people in Ethiopia to recover sight and providing rehabilitation for handicapped children. There are 1.2 million blind people living in Ethiopia and 87% of the cases could be prevented or cured.
Contact person: Mgr. Hana Chorváthová, tel: 222 365 531
Clown doctors
Clown doctors brings laugh and happiness to hospitalized children. The Czech organization Zdravotní klaun is a recognized expert in therapeutic humor. Clown doctors currently visit 38 hospitals in Bohemia and Moravia on regular basis. Every year, 48 professional clowns doctors make more than 38,000 small patients laugh. Clown doctors have also started seeing seniors and geriatric patients. Most of the costs are covered from donations coming from companies and individuals.
Contact person- Daniela Melíšková, komunikace, Zdravotní klaun o.s., tel: 724 223 440
Club of the cystic fibrosis patients
People with cystic fibrosis have much saltier perspiration, which is why they are called "salty kids" in layman's terms. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary and incurable disease. It seriously impairs the digestive and respiratory systems. Abnormally thick mucus that remains in bronchial passages and the pancreas is characteristic of the disease. Cystic fibrosis also brings other complications – includingdiabetes, cirrhosis of the liver, osteoporosis and infertility in men. Roughly half of those with the disease today will live to 32 years of age. Those with the disease need demanding treatments every day. The Czech Cystic Fibrosis Association was founded in 1992, and is the only organisation of its kind in the Czech Republic bringing together those affected by the disease.
More information at www.cfklub.cz
Contact person: Lenka Eislerová, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel.: 257 211 929, 773 586 325, www.cfklub.cz
č.ú.: 1921101329 / 0800
Running with those that can't
Running With Those That Can’t o.s. is a charity based in Prague Czech Republic that is organization by Medical Students at the Third Faculty of Medicine of Charles University as well as students from other local universities. With the belief that philanthropy is the gateway to becoming better students, better citizens and better doctors; the students set out to break the social taboo about the special needs population in the Czech Republic and helping them to live longer, happier and more healthy lives. We wanted to improve the quality of life for ALL citizens.
The mission of Running With Those That Can’t o.s. is one based of education and participation with the aim to integrate the physically challenged population into everyday life. We can accomplish that by educating the able bodied by making them more aware of the issues that the disabled face every day. We hold special conferences for the public, students and doctors on how to better understand and treat and care for their patients with special needs. Second, we actively help the disabled to participate in activities that would otherwise be inaccessible to them as well as participate in their lives. Last, we advocate for change and a better understanding and for a city that is more handicapped accessible.
The Highlight of our charity is the participation and partnership with the Prague International Marathon. We raise money through sponsors and individuals for specialized strollers and then push (as teams) the children in the Prague half marathon. In 2011 we will expand to also include the full marathons. The strollers are donated to the families after the race. These special strollers give the children and their families more freedom with better mobility. Families can access parks and nature, the city center. Doors are opening more and more do to our advocacy work and our general efforts of inclusion. All extra money that the charity raises goes to support foundations that deal with Cerebral Palsy and Muscular Dystrophy. Please help us by donating today.
How does it work?
Register for any of our competitions and print the PIM official sponsors form at www.praguemarathon.com. The idea is to find sponsors for your run which is called as fundraising.
Where and how to find sponsors? Here are some tips:
- Give a party to support Your run
- Make little presents and sell them to anyone around you
- Every kilometer costs something, let you support
- Make a web site, runner’s blog or facebook and present yourself there
Creativity has no limits!
Sponsors names and amounts of money you will write then into the form. Send the money to the chosen charity and also send a copy of your filled-in form to our address via email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . You will get a sponsor’s diploma from PIM that certifies your name and the complete amount, and your name will be written on the list of honor on the PIM web sites.
