Newsletter for the Runners of Good Will n. 5/2014 Committee of Good Will Olga Havel Foundation Dear friends runners of good will, Our support is going on even now during the cold winter times. I would like to thank you all for your sportive activities done during the last running season and wish you very merry Christmas. The New Year as well as the upcoming spring will approach us rather soon. We can, therefore, look forward to meeting each other at the running trails again. I sincerely wish you all the very best of luck in everything you do. Milena Černá, Director of Committee of Good Will Olga Havel Foundation Registration for Events Run Czech 2015 If you are interested in running, join us. You can became a runner of good will and connect your pleasure with a meaningful cause. The gains will be used in order to buy necessary health and compensatory tools for severely handicapped people. The Committee of Good Will Olga Havel Foundation will receive at least CZK 300 for every individual runner and CZK 250 for every runner registered as a member of team or relay race. All the prices are valid till December 13th, 2014. Sportisimo 1/2Maraton Prague 2015 28.3.2015 1500 CZK without T-shirt/ 2000 CZK with T-shirt 7500 CZK Volkswagen Maraton Prgue 3.5.2015 2100 CZK without T-shirt / 2600 CZK with T-shirt 8500 CZK Mattoni 1/2Maraton Karlovy Vary 23.5.2015 Mattoni 1/2Maraton České Budějovice, 6.6.2015 Mattoni 1/2Maraton Olomouc 2015 20.6.2015 Birell Grand Prix Prague 2015 5.9.2015 Mattoni 1/2Maraton Ústí nad Labem 12.9.2015 1100 CZK without T-shirt / 1600 CZK with T-shirt 10 km 5 km 700 CZK without T-shirt / 1200 CZK with T-shirt
Gift Voucher If you would like to sign up for any of the events within the series of RunCzech 2015, we offer you a possibility to purchase a voucher for the competitions listed here: http://www.sportprocharitu.cz/akce. The gains will be used to help severely handicapped people. For more information please contact our coordinator Lanka Benesova via e-mail address dobrovolnici@vdv.cz or via mobile phone 602 103 866.
Whom could we help thanks to your support? Throughout the year 2014, you contributed by CZK 800 000 in total. Thanks to that, we could purchase a number of health tools as well as to finance rehabilitations of handicapped children as well as adults. We would like to convey very special thanks accopmanied with pictures from Zuzanka, Sarinka, Oliver, Michal, Mrs. Jaroslava, Alois and Kubicek.
Christmas presents related to help those in need The gains will be used to public fund that helps people with severe handicaps. All the items can be purchased via e-mail address vdv@vdv.cz. T-shirt (CZK 400) M (S,M,L,XL); F (S,M,L) Book of memoirs (CZK 100) Backpack (CZK 125) Drop of Water for the Tree of Love Book of memoirs was published to commemorate Olga Havel s unachieved 80 th birthday. It consists of various personal testimonies of life and work of Olga Havel made by her former colleagues, friends, bodyguards and volunteers working for her foundation. The book also includes several yet unpublished photographs of Mrs. Olga Havel that come mainly from personal archives of respective contributes. Curiosity An enthusiastic athlete as well as volunteer for the Olga Havel Foundation Pavel Drastik started his halfyear long journey across the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Alaska in order to engage people of good will and gain support for people with handicaps. You can actually follow his journey here: www.sportprocharitu.cz.
Special thanks for cooperation during this year s sport season Thanks to employees of CSOB, pentathlete David Svoboda, graphic designer Eva Kocnarova, volunteers Tereza Ricarova and Martin Churavy, photographs Karolina Granja, Zdenek Chrapek and Alex Macciani, athletes Radka Tuckova, Pavel Drastik, Jan Duka, Kamil Klemsa, non-profit organization ESN Liberec, founder of running school of Milos Skorpil himself, Jan Skrabalek and Jan Riha and all the runners of good will who ran for the Committee of Good Will Olga Havel Foundation as well as to all related companies. Contacts Monika Granja Public Relations Phone: +420 737 762 285 granja@vdv.cz www.vdv.cz www.sportprocharitu.cz Lenka Benešová Communication with runners Phone: +420 602 103 866 dobrovolnici@vdv.cz www.vdv.cz www.sportprocharitu.cz Newsletter for runners of good will No. 5/2014 Issued by Committee of Good Will - The Olga Havel Foundation on December 8, 2014 The mission of the Committee of Good Will Olga Havel Foundation is to help people who, because of their poor state of health or social standing, find it difficult to participate in society or cannot care for themselves without other people s assistance. Through its activities, the Foundation aims to foster spiritual values and education, defend human rights and promote generally acknowledged humanitarian values.