“Sweden For Children“
We have became involved in the project „Sweden for Children“, which is in progress in the countries of Central Europe, under the auspices of Sweden Trade Council. It was successfully launched in Hungary in 2008 and this year in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Rumania. Its main moto is,above all, protection of health and prevention and safety of children. Why has this project been designated for these four countries? The research had shown that in comparison with Sweden, know for its high level of children safety, these countries reveal high percentage of children who died as a result of accidents and injuries.
Majority of our activities in the Czech Republic in the area of „social responsibility“ are focused on children and the project „Sweden for children ” is considered as a suitable complementation. We believe that our experience as doctors, from the area of prevention of injuries can contribute to increasing of children safety and reducing the injuries.
Partners of this project are Swedish companies operating on the Czech market. The aim of this project is to increase awareness of protection and safety of children in everyday life.
As Medicover is strongly orientated on traditional Swedish values like high quality, reliability, safety and stable back-round , it is natural for us to be engaged in this project with other partners. The project „Sweden for children“ is for us a great opportunity to launch Medicover Foundation, which finances this project. So far it has been the biggest Medicover project in is area in the Czech Republic.
The whole project includes many interesting events for both laymen and specialized audience. Specialist and all people working with children will be given an opportunity to discuss the problematic of children safety during the seminars. It will be ended by a weekend event, focused on wide public, especially children who will have an opportunity to learn about prevention and safety and e.g. practise first aid help principles during injuries.
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Newsletter Nordic Chamber 03/2009