We are well aware of the fact that not everybody is so fortunate to grow up and live in a calm and politically stable environment, functional family which gives him/her all necessary support. The most affected by these situations are children as they cannot usually influence the unsupportable conditions they live in. The children who grow up in without families, unstable household in war affected regions are usually the most afflicted. Medicover has become a partner in the projects which helps these children improve their living conditions.
Apart from that, we try not to forget people living in our close surrounding who also appreciate our support in everyday life.
„ADOPTION in a PACKAGE” – a humanitarian project of the organization ADRA
In 2005 and 2006 we supported the project „Adoption in a package “. This project was launched in 2003 to help children from countries of former Yugoslavia. It provides children living in unsupportable conditions with a very effective help. This project started with helping children in Bosnia and Hercegovina and than spread to Kosovo. A lot of children were as a result of the war left without family and material support. ADRA mediates deliveries of packages with clothes, school aids, and other necessary equipment.
PREVENTATIVE MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR CHILDREN FROM CHECHNYA
Medicover has participated in the project „ Dancing against terrorism“, which included in 2006 a month tour of a children dance group „MARŠO“ in the Czech Republic. Medicover contributed to this project with the preventative medical examinations of the group members. “Maršo“ stands for the word „Independence“. It is a dance group which was established in the refugee camp in Ingusethia. Its members are children from Chechnya who had to abandon their country affected by war conflict. They use dance to be able to cope with a difficult life situation and also to raise awareness of Chechnian culture.
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE in Prague 4, Sulická street 48
In this institute there are placed people, minimum 3 year old, regardless of the age. The facility has several detached operation buildings for people with minor mental handicap, capable of keeping basic hygienic habits, taking food, communicating with the surrounding, attending and working under the supervision of a specialists at specially adjusted workshops.
The main centre of this institute is a facility for the most serious cases who are permanently confined to bed or people who need to be under continuous supervision of a specialist. Several of these handicapped patients are mentally on the level of a toddler or pre-school child,however, they are in adult age. Their mental handicap is often combined with associated diseases or innate defects.
We have been cooperating with this Institute from July 2007 and since then we have been trying to make use of all our possibilities to ensure modern necessary treatment by providing preventative medical examinations and preventing the clients from worsening of physical condition . We have been also helping to ensure for the clients social benefits they are entitled to. We provide first aid training for the staff members, trying to give them model situations which should train them to find solution with minimal negative effect on themselves and the health of the patients.
We are pleased that these activities are not only beneficial for our patients but also attending staff.
UNICEF
We support the UNICEF - the world’s major organization that deals with the protection and improvement of living conditions of children and their comprehensive development - by the annual purchase of Christmas cards.
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