REGION
památkami. Daří se Vám tyto prostory
postupně renovovat?
Konkrétním příkladem renovace původních objektů je aktuální sídlo Chráněného bydlení a dílen Charity sv. Alexandra.
Nachází se v areálu bývalého Dolu Alexandr v Ostravě-Kunčičkách a jsou památkově chráněny. Od roku 2001, kdy Charita
sv. Alexandra vznikla, do roku 2008 získala postupně 3 zdevastované objekty.
Kovárnu, zrekonstruovala na textilní dílnu,
humanitární šatník a zázemí společnosti; kočárovnu, opravila na chráněné dílny a kotelnu; a správní budovu, opravila
na chráněné bydlení pro zdravotně znevýhodněné. S financováním tak rozsáhlého
projektu pomohly z větší části evropské
fondy a dále granty a nadace.
Dalším pozitivním příkladem zachráněných objektů v kraji jsou hospodářské
budovy přiléhající ke kostelu sv. Mikuláše
v Ludgeřovicích. Jejich opravou vznikl charitní Domov sv. Mikuláše, ve kterém nalezli
svůj nový domov senioři, kteří již nemohou zůstat ve svém domácím prostředí.
Služby zde provozuje Charita Hlučín.
Děkujeme Vám za rozhovor.
Redakce magazínu.
Text: redakce
Foto:
Jan Buzek, Člověk a Víra
archiv Charita sv. Alexandra
archiv DCHOO
Chráněná textilní dílna
Charitní domov sv. Mikuláše
www.dchoo.charita.cz
Helping Not Just Around Christmas
The aim of Charita is to offer the church service of merciful love to people in danger or need regardless
of age, gender, political views, family, health, sexual preferences, social and economic status, ethnicity
and nationality, religion and culture. The organization works through social, health and other services.
Here is the interview on the help, support and activities of Charita of the Czech Republic with
Mr Lukáš Curylo, CEO of Charita of the Czech Republic and CEO of Charita of the Diocese
of Ostrava and Opava.
Mr Curylo, the mission of Charita is
to help those in need not only during
Christmastime. In which ways can we keep
helping in our region?
Charita offers helping hands to all in need
regardless of their faith, origin, or nationality.
In the Czech Republic there are over 300
Charita branches looking after over 145
,000 people annually. In the MoravianSilesian Region and part of the Jeseníky
Mountain Region, where Charita of the
Diocese of Ostrava and Opava (Diecézní
charita
ostravsko-opavská)
operates
eighteen Charities, there are over 168
facilities providing thirty types of healthsocial services, which makes us the greatest
non-governmental provider of health and
social services in the region.
One of our mottos is “Anybody can help”
no matter if it is through spiritual, material
or financial means. Help can be in the form
of a student who volunteers at a seniors’
home, a mother who donates clothes
to a family in dire straits, or a young couple
who send money to support a particular
charity project. At the start of winter each
of us can remember the homeless: an
opportunity to spend a night in a warm place
may save their lives. For example, Nový Jičín
offers “Zetko”, a voucher you can sponsor,
for 50CZK, to pay for one person a night
in a shelter or a doss-house.
Traditional activities of Charita include
Twelfth Night Charity Collection (Tříkrálová
sbírka). Where does the money go from
there?
In 2020, the Twelfth Night Charity
Collection will have been held for twenty
years. In that time, the contributions have
supported thousands of charity projects.
65% of what donors put in Charita’s
collection boxes remains at the local
Charita, who organize the collection. 15%
is allocated to the Charita of the Diocese,
10% helps the people abroad in need, 5%
supports national projects, and 5% goes
to the running costs of the collection.
In 2019, donations allowed us to buy
two cars to improve the jobs of nurses
of Charita in Opava who travel over
25,000 kilometres monthly when visiting
clients. The full list of the Twelfth Night
Charity Collection spendings is available
at www.trikralovasbirka.cz
Heritage Buildings. How do you manage
upkeep?
A good example of renovation is the current
Sheltered Home and Workshop of the
Charity of St. Alexander. It is situated in the
former Alexander Mine in Ostrava–Kunčičky
at the National Heritage Buildings. From the
foundation of the Charity of St. Alexander
in 2001 to 2008 the Charity acquired three
badly damaged buildings. The smithy was
turned into a textile workshop, humanitarian
clothes store and charity offices; the coach
house into a sheltered workshop and boilerroom; and the administration headquarters
were renewed to provide sheltered housing
to the disabled. The large project was
co-financed mostly through funds of the EU
and also through grants and endowments.
Another fine illustration of salvaged
buildings in the region is the premises at the
Church of St. Nicolas (kostel sv. Mikuláše)
in Ludgeřovice. That renovation provided
a Charity Home of St. Nicolas (Domov
sv. Mikuláše), housing for seniors who
cannot stay in their homes any more. The
service is operated by Charita Hlučín.
Charita ČR often operates from interesting
facilities, some of them listed as National
Thank you for the interview.
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