PF 2020
Dear friends, donors and supporters, we wish you a beautiful Christmas holiday and good luck, health and goodwill in 2020.
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Advent concert of goodwill for the 25th time
Benefit concert for the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation took place in the Church of St. Simon and Jude in the Old Town in Prague on the 8th of December. It was a beautiful and exceptional performance.
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„My Life with Handicap Award“ at the Czech Press Photo 2019 went to Anna Šolcová
Anna Šolcová is a prize holder of „My Life with Handicap Award“ at the Czech Press Photo 2019. This prize that has been awarded since 2014 by the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation. Anna Šolcová got the award for a series of photos titled Energy Poverty. Formal ceremony will take place at the Old Town Hall on November the 22nd.
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The Olga Havel Good Will Run brought almost CZK 330,000
We would like to thank all runners for their participation in the first year of The Olga Havel Run of Good Will. The atmosphere of the event was amazing!
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Annual Report on the activities of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation in 2018
A publication happens to contain a brief report about the events which came about in the Committee of Good Will - the Olga Havel Foundation during 2018.
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Our summer interning at the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation
Read the experiences of two students at American universities from a two-month internship on the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation.
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Take part in the first Goodwill Run
We would like to invite you to the first Goodwill Run in Hvězda forest in Prague, offering not only a sport experience, but also a nice afternoon you can spend with your family, enjoying various activities for children and adults as well. You can look forward to individual runs and relay, children’s races and fun activities for children.
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The Olga Havel Award 2019
Tereza Nagyová became laureate of the Olga Havel Award 2019 for her educational activities concerning life with stoma.
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Daria Filonenko is a new Education Fund scholarship recipient
Daria is 17 years old and she comes from the war-stricken Ukrainian Donetsk. She has been living in the Czech Republic since 2017. She is now studying hotel management and foreign languages at the Vršovická Hotel School in Prague.
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Eight-Year Travel of the Photo Exhibition
In 2010, while commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Committee of Good Will - the Olga Havel Foundation, we came up with an idea to present ourselves by a collection of photographs of Olga Havel, the OHF founder, illustrating her work for the needy. Thus, a unique collection of 33 photographs has been created in co-operation with photographer Ondřej Němec, a collection that has been travelling throughout our country and beyond its borders for already eight years.
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PF 2019
Dear friends and supporters, We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May the year 2019 be filled with happiness and goodwill.
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Interview with our donor Tom Velan
Olga Havel remembered A. Karel Velan as the man who, during her first visit of Canada in 1990, inspired the idea of setting up the Committee of Good Will. Together with his wife, they supported Olga Havel and her foundation for a lifetime. This summer, their youngest son Tom visited the Czech Republic, and it’s clear that he walks the same path...
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Annual Report on the activities of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation in 2017
A publication happens to contain a brief report about the events which came about in the Committee of Good Will - the Olga Havel Foundation during 2017.
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Runners participating in the O2 Prague Relay have raised over 140 thousand crowns
They were running for a great cause, everyone had a great time with their colleagues and best of all, 105,000 crowns have been raised through registrations only! The Relay took place in Stromovka on Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
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The Olga Havel Award 2018
Pavel Šturm became a laureate of the 2018 Olga Havel Award for helping people with a hearing impairment.
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Salzburg Medical Seminars 2018
Application deadline for the Salzburg Medical Seminars 2018: 31 May 2018
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85 trees in memory of Olga Havel over the Czech Republic
This year, Olga Havel would celebrate her 85th birthday. The Olga Havel Foundation has decided to call this year the Olga Havel Year and a series of events commemorating the legacy of the former First Lady will take place
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The OHF award in Czech Press Photo competition was presented
This year, the OHF presented the My Life with a Handicap award in the prestigious competition Czech Press Photo for the fourth time already.
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Every kilometer counts!
And that’s something the ČSOB bank employees who have joined the runners of good will this year, know very well.
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The OHF lends a helping hand to disadvantaged students
During the summer, 14 young people from children's homes had the opportunity to attend the summer language school of English.
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Invitation to Pediatric Palliative Care Seminar
The Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation and the Czech Society for Palliative Medicine (Children Palliative Care Taskforce) cordially invite doctors and the professional public to AAF/OMI Visiting Professorship "Pediatric Palliative Care".
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The Olga Havel Award 2017
The Olga Havel 2017 Award was presented to Naděžda Nováková, the chair of ROSKA Ostrava, for her long-term work for the benefit of people with multiple sclerosis.
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Our new publication
On the occasion of the OHF sister organisations' meeting the foundation published a brochure that maps the activities of these organisations since the OHF establishment in the 1990s to the present day.
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Meeting of the Sister Organisations in Prague
The Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation is preparing a meeting of representatives of the Sister Organisations of Olga Havel Foundation, which will be held on 30th of May in Prague.
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Nominate a candidate for the Olga Havel Award 2017!
If you know anybody among your family, friends or colleagues who, despite his/her handicap helps others, you can suggest him/her for this award.
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Candle for Olga Havel
On Friday, January 27, it will be 21 years since Olga Havel died. Come and join members of the Olga Havel Foundation on this day at 3.30 p.m. to honor the memory of this extraordinary woman by lighting a candle at the Havel family tomb at the Vinohrady cemetery.
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Are you looking for a meaningful Christmas gift?
The original present for Christmas eve can also be registering for Sportisimo ½ Marathon Prague 2017 or Volkswagen Marathon Prague raced by RunCzech. You will be given a Gift certificate which will include a t-shirt you can buy in our Foundation.
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The Committee of Good Will Award at the Czech Presss Photo
Slovak freelance photographer Matúš Zajac received this year’s "My Life with a Handicap Award” presented within the Czech Press Photo competition by the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation. The photographer was awarded for his series of "Canistherapy: From a Personal Tragedy Towards Helping Others."
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Holiday activities for children from children’s homes
Almost six hundred children from three dozen children's homes had an opportunity to enjoy vacation by the sea this year owing to the Holidays Project sponsored by the Trade Union entity Majetková správní a delimitační unie odborových svazů.
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Sanatorium EDEL - health resort with speleotherapy services
Between 2003–2015, the OHF supported Sanatorium EDEL by the overall amount of CZK 1,392, 000. Finances were used for landscaping, flooring in the speleotherapy unit, spirometric sensors, playground and play equipment.
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Interview with Václav Fanta, laureate of the Olga Havel 2016 Award
“Everything I do makes me happy” says Václav Fanta.
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Annual Report of Olga Havel Foundation
Annual Report on activities of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation in 2015
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Interview with Martin Dušek, director of the OHF TV spot
TV spot called "Olga stays with us" is tied with name of its creator, director and screenwriter Martin Dušek (38). Although he is quite young, he is well known and pretty successful in the documentary industry – some of his films were laurelled at international festivals. He himself is just as interesting, as you will have a chance to find out in the following interview.
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The Olga Havel Award 2016
Václav Fanta, an art photographer from Prague, became this year's laureate of the Olga Havel Award. Despite losing his sight many years ago, he brings optimism to people with the same disability and help them in many different ways.
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A New Member of the OHF Team
Naďa is a middle-aged athletic-looking woman. Short hair, sympathetic face, vivid eyes. She comes from Moravia, graduated from the faculty of pedagogy in Olomouc, which was supposed to direct her towards a career in teaching. However, it never happened.
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Kateřina Kynclová and Her Red Noses
It was difficult to miss – the Czech TV spot reminding the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation. Although the spot is quite short and runs fast, one could hardly go without noticing the rich white hair so typical of Olga Havel, founder of the OHF. In this interview, young artist Kateřina Kynclová talks about creation of an idea behind the spot.
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Two out of Five - Anika
Anika and Jiří - two out of five faces that together with the face of Olga Havel appear in the OHF commercial. Two young people embody two different types of disability. We would like to share with you their stories through interviews with Head of the St. Agnes Home, where Jiří works, and Anika’s mother Andrea.
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Two out of Five - Jiří
Anika and Jiří - two out of five faces that together with the face of Olga Havel appear in the OHF commercial. Two young people embody two different types of disability. We would like to share with you their stories through interviews with Head of the St. Agnes Home, where Jiří works, and Anika’s mother Andrea.
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Public Reading in favour of the Olga Havel Foundation
Public reading of the work by a writer and filmmaker Henry Mann, the grandson of writer Heinrich Mann and the great-nephew of Thomas Mann, was held on June 2 at the residence of the Czech Ambassador in Berlin, Mr. Jan Tomáš Podivínský.
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The Olga Havel Award 2016
Václav Fanta, an art photographer from Prague, became this year's laureate of the Olga Havel Award. Despite losing his sight many years ago, he brings optimism to people with the same disability and help them in many different ways.
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“Civil society is not a rocket science, it just takes shared responsibility!”
says Dana Němcová, the Chair of the OHF Supervisory Board.
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„Bike riding is my second nature!”
You will not come across the name of Magda Pištorová, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the OHF, that often. Unless you just examine the annual report of the OHF. Her face, however, can be recognized at many beneficial events and, her spirit and energy have been interconnected with the OHF for years.
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Velvet Havel
During the beneficial performance Velvet Havel in memory of Olga and Václav Havel, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the OHF.
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We speak the same language
Milena Černá talks about Oda Wommer, the OHF volunteer...
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Nominations for the Olga Havel Award 2016
The public nomination period for the Olga Havel Award is opened through April 10, 2016. Individuals or organizations can bring forward the nominations of the personalities who, despite their disability, help other disadvantaged people.
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Olga Stays with Us media campaign
The Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation has launched an educational campaign reminding a legacy of its founder Olga Havel.
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Olga Havlová left 20 years ago...
Today, it has been 20 years since Olga Havlová, a founder of the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation, left.
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Holy mass for Olga Havel
In January 2016 it will be 20 years since the death of Olga Havel. We invite you to the Holy mass for Olga Havel and donors of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation.
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New Year 2016 Message
Throughout the 2015, our Foundation experienced both bitter and sweet days. After all, we do not live in isolation and we share the world’s destiny with other fellow citizens.
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Woman Who Talks Little and Does a Lot
Diana Sternbergová (Franziska Diana Phipps Sternbergová) has been connected with the Committee of Good Will – The Olga Havel Foundation - since it began.
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Project for the Homeless Roof First
Vojtěch Sedláček is associated not only with social entrepreneurship but with one purely charitable project in cooperation with the Naděje organization as well. It is a completely new activity, which aims to provide free accommodation for homeless people.
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Social entrepreneurship or To Be the Bridge for Others
Vojtěch Sedláček participates in the Olga Havel Award project. This award is given every year to people which despite their own handicap help others.
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Nobody is Born with the Intention of Becoming Homeless
A non-profit organization Salvation Army has been applying for the OHF grants to support the activities for socially excluded people regularly since its work in the Czech Republic started.
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Interview with Ilja Hradecký
We always find topics for discussion with Ilja Hradecký.
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Talented young artists will be introduced at this year's benefit concert in aid of the OHF
Together with the KŠB law firm you can support the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation and check the artistic potential of the young generation of Czech opera singers and conductors during the 21st year of the traditional charity event. The concert, which will have the Advent spirit this year, will be held on Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 7pm in the concert hall – The Church of St. Simon and St. Jude in Prague.
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All Souls' Day
In January next year we will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Olga Havel’s death. We often remember her, continue to spread her message, and take care of keeping her image in people’s minds.
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I have not seen my room upstairs since the sixth grade
The Education Fund supports 74 students with a scholarship this year. One of them is Honza who studies in spite of a serious illness.
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The OHF awarded a series of photographs on the topic of palliative childcare
A prize named "My life with a handicap" given by the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation on Czech Press Photo competition was given to Milan Jaroš from the Respekt magazine for a series of photographs In the right corner of heaven - palliative childcare, 2014-2015.
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The OHF passed a carriage to patients in the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital
In the framework of the grant program Senior the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation contributed to the project "A carriage for patients in the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital".
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A new scholarship program for disadvantaged students
Young people from children’s homes or from poor families now have a better chance to study at technical universities. A new program of the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation, supported by the ČEZ Foundation, which is called Nikola Tesla Scholarship, will help them.
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Children from children’s homes have improved language skills in the UK
Twenty young people from children’s homes participated this August in a two-week summer language school in the UK.
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Hundreds of people said goodbye to Olga Joklová, victim of the „butterfly disease“
At the Roštejn castle, hidden in a beech forest near Telč, Olga Joklová spent the best years of her life. Here, in the courtyard under a seven-sided tower, a symbolic farewell was held to this woman, probably the most famous patient in this country suffering from an incurable disease Epideromolysis bullosa (EP) called butterfly disease.
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We support European solidarity - statement of the European Anti-Poverty Network Czech Republic
Czech history has been permeated with waves of migration driven by religious, political and economic reasons. Migrants have been naturally allowed to enter European and non-European countries, mainly because of the human tendency to help them.
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Concept of social housing
“It is a duty of the state to create conditions so that people who face poverty or social exclusion can find help and support. It does not matter if this situation is caused by their own decisions, unfortunate events, illness…
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Students from Liberec “run away” a wheelchair for Ondřej
Second year of the Olga Havel Foundation Charity run in Liberec represented by motto “I run as much as I can - I help” organised by the non-profit organisation ESN Liberec at the Technical University in Liberec, raised almost CZK 30,000.
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Annual Report of Olga Havel Foundation
Annual Report on activities of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation in 2014
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We supported a daily care centre financially to help with an attic reconstruction
Daily care centre Diakonie Litoměřice successfully completed a reconstruction and will be moving to a new modernised building. Committee of Good Will was one of the donors with a contribution of CZK 50,000. The money was used to repair the floors in order to provide a fully barrier-free interior.
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Thanks
Mrs. Diana Sternbergová deserves special thanks for her 25-year-long work at the Olga Havel Foundation and its Board of Directors. She helped and supported the Foundation greatly and was a good advisor and kind friend.
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ČSOB’s participation in the “Ride a bike to work” campaign helped Soňa to get a new wheelchair
Thanks to ČSOB, Soňa is one of four recipients of new medical aid. A total of 224 employees of ČSOB in 64 teams participated in the campaign “Ride a bike to work”, and together completed 49,658 km.
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Miroslav Motejzík proves that with an amputated leg not only marathon can be handled
Thirty-nine year old athlete, father of three kids, financial advisor and investor Miroslav Motejzík from Strakonice lost his leg knee down in an accident. Despite his handicap he has actively participated in triathlons, and with his achievement supported those who because of their handicap couldn't do sports anymore.
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The Good News Magazine 2015/2
Magazine of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation: 2015 No. 2
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The Olga Havel Award 2015
Olga Joklovᆠfrom Jihlava was the laureate of the Olga Havel Award 2015. She was suffering from the “butterfly disease” and received this prestigious award for her enlightening activity regarding this rare illness, in cooperation with a non-governmental organisation DEBRA ČR.
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Charity golf tournament
The first annual charity golf tournament of the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation, held on May 14, 2015 at Golf Resort Karlstejn, raised 150,000 crowns.
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The OHF's contribution allowed Pavlík to undergo neurorehabilitation
The OHF Board provided financial contribution to Pavlík, who was born with Cerebral Palsy, for a special mobility therapy Therasuit (neurorehabilitation).
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I would like to help people, who do not have easy lives. I know what it feels like.
The Education Fund gave scholarships to ten students. One of them was Milan Richtr, who decided to study despite his severe handicap.
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Interview with MUDr. Milena Černá
Mrs. Milena Černá studied medicine and due to her close relations with dissidents she was often called the physician for Charter 77.
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Press conference on the 25th anniversary of the Olga Havel Foundation establishment
The Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation held a press conference on the 25th anniversary of its establishment. During the press conference representatives of the OHF evaluated their activities in the course of the past 25 years and introduced OHF’s future steps.
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The Good News Magazine 2015/1
Magazine of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation: 2015 No. 1
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Distribution of the Foundation’s grants from Senior program - spring round
The OHF Board of Directors decided to distribute grants to 73 NGOs in the amount of CZK 3,019,000 on March 24, 2015.
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Alex' life journey: from a children’s home to a host family and up to the sky
The Education Fund gave scholarships to ten students. One of them was Alexandr Lukáč from Ostrava.
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Siblings and friends are the most valuable thing in my life
The Education Fund gave scholarships to ten students. One of them was Natália from children’s home in Kroměříž.
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Exhibition of Olga Havel Photography in English
The exhibition organized by the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation reminds the public about the establisher of the Foundation Olga Havel. The exhibition is in English and available for rent and presentation in the Czech Republic or abroad.
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We supported early care social services for autistic children
The OHF financially contributed to the Dotyk II charity for early care for autistic children.
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Donation of Ruukki CZ s.r.o. will help handicapped children
Our thanks go to company Ruukki CZ Ltd. for a donation of 55,000 CZK, which will help children with health disabilities.
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Project A2A or Charity Expedition to the End of the World
If you ask some of your English speaking friends in today’s globalised world about the precise meaning of somewhat mysterious abbreviation A2A, you may get an answer by question (because it could be easily deciphered as ask to answer).
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PF 2015
Thank you for your patronage and support!
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ČSOB contributes to Olga Havel student kitty
ČSOB has donated CZK 1.1m to the Education Fund of the Committee for Good Will – The Olga Havel Foundation.
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The Good News Magazine 2014/4
Magazine of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation: 2014 No. 4
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Olga Havel Foundation awarded a series of photos of people with mental handicaps
Štěpán Hon was awarded the Prize of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation “My Life with a Handicap” for his series of photos “Engagement of Jindřiška and Hynek from the care center in Hvozdy” at the prestigious competition Czech Press Photo.
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What has changed in twenty years?
We have interviewed a number of the Olga Havel Award laureates, and asked them these two questions: Has the Olga Havel Award changed your life? Are you still actively involved in helping the handicapped people? What do you think about developments in the field of your interest? What has improved?
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A day at the Committee of the Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation
I spent one day at the Olga Havel Foundation, situated on the Senovážné square, Prague. I talked to the employees about how they spend their work days. My aim is not to literary explain the job description of the five full-time employees and head of the Foundation. During the interviews, I absorbed its local atmosphere, and my vision about the Foundation suddenly became more colorful.
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Tea at five
As usually, on the first Tuesday of each month the CoGW organizes a tea meeting with interesting guests.
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Annual Report of Olga Havel Foundation
Annual Report on activities of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation in 2013
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The Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation received the award Honorary Superbrands 2014
In July 2014, the jury of Superbrands awarded the brand of The Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation in the category of the non-governmental organizations. Superbrands is a worldwide program designated to evaluate brands. It operates in 90 countries all over the globe.
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Literature festival Belles Lettres supported the Foundation for Education
Organizers of the first year of the literature festival Belles Lettres decided to connect the event with a good cause and support disadvantaged pupils through the Foundation for Education.
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We received the Ď Award for patrons and philanthropists
Yesterday, our representative Monika Granja received the Ď Award for the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation in the National Theatre. The award was given to the committee for its support of the Salvation Army.
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The Olga Havel Award 2014
The twentieth Olga Havel Award was given to Ladislav Dohnal, a blind organ player from Sezimovo Ústí, who has been helping seniors for more than 30 years.
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Sport for charity
Spring has brought a number of sport activities, from which the output went to the handicapped people.
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The Exhibition of photos of Olga Havel will travel around 16 towns
Choose one of the locations bellow and visit the exhibition in person. It is certainly worthwhile.
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The Good News Magazine 2014/1
Magazine of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation : 2014 No. 1
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Premiere of the documentary OLGA
The premiere of the documentary Olga was shown as part of the film festival One World. The event took place in Světozor Cinema on March 6, 2014.
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Press Conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Olga Havel Award
The Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation organized a press conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Olga Havel Award.
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The Good News Magazine 2013/4
Magazine of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation : 2013 No. 4
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The Good News Magazine 2013/3
Magazine of the Committee of Good Will – Olga Havel Foundation : 2013 No. 3
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The Olga Havel Award 2013
Alena Jančíková, head of the Czech Association of Paraplegics, was awarded the nineteenth Olga Havel Award.
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