Let’s Help Each Other (Portal of Prague)

The Czech Club rooms on the second floor of the Municipal house in Náměstí Republiky are shortly to host the exhibition Dog, Friend of Man. The event will also publicly present the charity work of the civic association Mathilda. Everyone can join in.

The Mathilda Civic Association was founded at the end of last year, and its core is formed by Countess Mathilda Nostitzová’s closest collaborators. For almost twenty years, the countess has been helping the visually impaired in the Czech Republic. During that time, she has organized a number of significant social events, obtained a number of awards and also contributed with an important financial sum towards activities related to aid for visually impaired people. However, we can all help. For instance, just like her grandmother and her mother, countess Nostitzová used to go and read to the blind. It only took up a small amount of her time. That was one of the reasons why she decided to focus more on concrete projects that can help people with visual handicaps. She lent her name to the Mathilda Civic Association in which she also realizes her activities.

The Mathilda Civic Association constantly looks for new ways to support organizations and projects which help the visually impaired. There are a lot of people with bad eyesight or completely blind and it’s they who know best what kind of help they need. The main objective of the association is to put together those who need help with those who can and want to help and those who know how to help.

Buy a calendar

One step toards gaining people interested in a good cause is the creation of a special calendar for the year 2010. The calendar will pay towards the support of training of guide dogs for the visually impaired, specifically on the breeding and training of little puppies, future guide dogs. The proceeds from one single calendar is equivalent to the cost of one weeks training for a puppy.

The calendar contains photos of famous people who participate in the project. It includes Eva Holubová, Zdeněk Svěrák, Marta Kubišová, Jiří Bartoška, Karel Schwanzenberg, Marek Eben, Lukáš Pollert, Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer, Dagmar Havlová, Václav Havel, Jan Tříska, Miloš Forman and naturally Mathilda Nostitzová. The photographer is Antonín Malý.

The calendar is in colour, A3+ format (32x48 cm), 14 pages (title page, December 2009 and the 12 months of 2010). The price of one calendar is: 500CZK, when purchasing 50 calendars or more the price is 350 CZK/piece.

So even you can contribute by buying calendars (invoice) or by financial gift (deed of gift) – account number: 227201552/0300