Heart of Bohemia

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Heart of Bohemia
The Development Partnership

• The Charity and Social Services in the Countryside

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The actual situation in the countryside in the
Czech Rep.

• Disadvantageous situation of women in small
  villages at the labour market
• Lost of appeal of the life in the countryside for
  young people
• Increase of the number of old and powerless
  people (approx. 20 such citizens in a village
  with 300 habitants)

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The main task of the Development partnership

• The main objective of the project is to find out
  a solution how to assist old and powerless people
  in the Countryside to live decently in their own
  homes

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Specific goals of the DP

• Introducing of area-based social services (care
  and assistance-providing)
• Empowerment of unemployed women in
  countryside-regions in order to be able to care
  of their own labour and career lives
• Start-up of terrain services aimed at improving
  fates and situations of older people

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The Realization

• Creation of a new type of terrain social service
• In each selected microregion, care centers will
  be built with cca 6 employed women who will také
  care for old and powerless people in particular
  villages
• The idea of this type of service will be promoted
  among the regional politicians in other regions
  of the Czech Republic

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Members of the DP

• Charity Starý Knín Coordinator of the project
• Srdce Cech (Heart of Bohemia) organisation
  unifying 134 towns and villages in the Central
  Bohemia
• Arch-Diocese Charity Prague
• Mladí Evropané (Young Europeans youth
  organisation in the Czech Rep.)

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Target groups of the project

• Main target group of the project Unemployed
  women in small towns and villages
• Secondary target group non-profit organisations
  dealing especially with social and medical
  services in the countryside
• Third target group the whole public

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