Partnership in a Project

5. 8. 2011

This April, Tereza Maxová Foundation became one of the guarantors of support of a successful project "Reading helps". Its aim is not only to motivate children and young people to read, but it also helps a good cause.

The Foundation has so far nominated four projects and three of them have already managed to receive the target amount. The supported recipients were a college student Gracián Svačina, whose dream was to study English in Great Britain and also disabeled Daněček, who grew up in a children´s home and wanted a special tricycle to be able to go out for various trips like his friends. The third supported project was volunteering at the Children's Centre in Prague 4-Krč, whose central idea is to arrange regular visits of trained volunteers who give the children attention and devotion as if the children spent this time with their own parents. For example, the volunteers write a diary for the children and record their first steps and exploration of the world, and provide them with an identity that the abandoned children very often lack.

Benefits of the project are best seen from the letters of thanks. We are more than happy to show you just one of them:

Dear Mr. Roman,

My name is Gracián Svačina and I have been growing up in a children’s home in Jemnice since I was ten. When I was a kid and I was with my parents, I wanted to be a tractor driver like my father. After I came to the children's home and saw that could have had greater goals and desires, I started to try harder and most importantly begun to learn. Now I want to be a journalist. To achieve this, I do everything in my power. I attend college. I try to write for the major newspapers and magazines to gain experience so that one day, I can come home and be a good father, who can take care of his children better than my parents did.

I would like to thank you for a lot of things that I have received thanks to your project "Reading helps". You know, I will go to England (for the first time, I will be on board of a plane), I will attend classes from ČTK (the Czech Press Office) and a great Czech journalist William Buchert will teach me. There is, of course, a whole lot more. I am very excited and am looking forward to all of it.

A big THANKS also belongs to the Tereza Maxová Foundation, that has been helping me for the past two years of my studies. And I'm also glad that they remembered me when this great project from you came around.

I would like to wish you all the best and thank you very much.

Yours Gracián Svačina

For more information about this Project, please visit www.ctenipomaha.cz. 

We would like to kindly thank the implementers of his project for their trust and confidence.