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How to help
If you can provide accommodation to evacuees, call 3609 9360.
The Prague Post Flood Relief Fund for Schools & Libraries
The Prague Post and the Prague Post Endowment Fund
have established a flood relief fund for schools and
libraries in flood-damaged communities.
Funds will be used to aid school and community libraries damaged or destroyed
by the recent floods. Grants will be given to individual preschools, elementary
schools, secondary schools and community libraries with a priority on
restocking books and rebuilding damaged structures.
The Prague Post and the Prague Post Endowment Fund have been committed to
supporting long-term investment in education in the Czech Republic for over
a decade.
Please join us today.
Contributions can be made to the following bank account:
Account #: 179138148/0300
Bank: CSOB, a.s.
Branch: Jungmannova 15, Praha 1
SWIFT: CEKO CZ PP PRA
Personal checks can be sent to:
Prague Post Endowment Fund
Flood Relief Fund
Stepanska 20
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Checks can be made out to:
Nadacní Fond Prague Post Endowment Fund
| Sept. 11, 2002 : | 494,000 CZK
raised to date. | Goal: 1 million CZK |
For more information, e-mail us at: education@praguepost.com
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Telenor, the Norwegian telecommunications company, has donated 400,000 Kc to
The Prague Post's Flood Relief Fund for Schools & Libraries. Telenor challenges
other telecommunications firms to match their contribution. |  |
American Friends of the Czech Republic
AFoCR is assisting in the collection of contributions to provide immediate
disaster relief through the Czech Red Cross and designated relief agencies. If
you wish to contribute, a special account "AFoCR, Prague-Needs-Help
Flood Relief Fund" has been established at the CitiBank in Washington, D.C.
Account Number: 1507-4196
ABA/Routing Number: 2540-70116
Contact:
2801 M Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20007
Phone: (202) 338-1548
Fax (202) 338-8182
Web site: www.afocr.org/
The People in Need Foundation
(in cooperation with Czech Television) is collecting donations to help people
affected by the flood.
Cash donations can be made to this bank account:
Account #: 334 334 334 /0300
Bank: CSOB
Branch: Prague
Code: CEKOCZPPPRA
Contact:
Marie Wichterlova,
People in Need Foundation,
4101 1562
E-mail: pinfcz@czech-tv.cz
Web site:
http://www.pinf.cz/floods.htm
To volunteer to help the People in Need Foundation, send an e-mail to .
mail@infoservis.net
The People In Need Foundation
is also partnering with the VIA Foundation to
coordinate short-term and long-term relief donation efforts.
More
information can be found on the Internet at
http://www.floods.cz.
Donations
from the United States can be sent to:
the Foundation for a Civil
Society/VIA,
P.O. Box 2235,
New York,
NY 10021.
The partnership has been
endorsed by President Vaclav Havel, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright and film director Milos Forman.
Prague Zoo devastated by floods
During the floods in August 2002, Prague Zoo employees risked their lives to save animals during the largest and possibly fastest evacuation of a zoo in history. Nearly half the zoo compound was destroyed in the disaster and hundreds of traumatized animals were moved to other zoos. As a result, full recovery of the zoo will take years.
If you would like to contribute to our recovery efforts, contributions can be made to the following bank account.
Bank Account #:
22 22 22 22 22/6000
S.W.I.F.T. PMBPCZPP
Prague Zoo
180 00 Prague 8-Troja,
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 296 112 257
Fax: +420 737 208 981
E-mail: kahle@zoopraha.cz
Web site: http://www.zoopraha.cz/homepage.php
The Prague Zoo wishes to extend it's gratitude to all who have lent a hand in the massive clean-up effort. Especially we wish to thank our colleagues who provided homes for many of our animals, some of whom are still too traumatized to be returned at this time. Special thanks goes to the companies and private individuals who donated equipment and resources, enabling the Zoo to get over the worst of the crisis.
The Prague Zoo welcomes all interested individuals of goodwill to contact us about ways to help us raise the necessary funds for overcoming this adversity.
Thank you,
Vit Kahle
PR Manager
The Charity of the Archdiocese in Prague
Londynska 44, 120 00 Prague 2
E-mail: praha@charita-adopce.cz
Web site: www.charita-adopce.cz
(in Czech)
Director: Jaroslav Nemec
1) Items being collected:
Blankets
Sleeping pads
Sleeping bags
Cots
Cleaning materials and disinfectants
Plastic bags
Galoshes
Bottled water
Drop-off points, which will be open from 8 a.m.–8 p.m.:
a) Arcidiecezni krizove centrum
(Archdiocesan Crisis Center),
Londynska
44,
Prague 2;
Tel: 2424 6519 or 2424 6573
b) Krestanske centrum
(Christian Center),
Modleticka 1401,
Prague
11 Chodov;
Tel: 7294 1972
c) Farni charita
(Parish Charity) Prague 7,
Bubenska 3,
Prague 7
Holesovice;
Tel: 6671 2405
d) Komunitni centrum
(Community Center)
V Huzrkach 1292/8,
Praha 5
Nove Butovice
(near metro Huzrka);
Tel.: 5161 0850 or 5162 7400
2) Places to donate clothing, furniture, etc.
In Dublovice u Sedlcan, the Archdiocese of Prague is collecting and storing
materials for humanitarian aid: clothing, shoes, galoshes, bottled water,
cleaning materials and disinfectants, furniture.
Contact:
Anna Kosarova,
tel. (0304) 822 749;
mobile (0737) 28 28 15
3) Where to donate cash
Money can be donated to a bank account set up by the Archdiocese.
Account #: 350000749011 / 0110
Code: VS 888
Bank: Komercni bank
Branch: Prague 2
ADRA
Collecting cash donations to help the flood-damaged communities of Ceske
Budejovice, Plaz, Protivina and Putim.
Account #: 24442444/0300
Code: v.s. 444
Red Cross of the Czech Republic
Cash donations can be sent to a fund for humanitarian crises set up
by the Red Cross of the Czech Republic.
Account #: 10030-7334-011/0100
Code: v.s. 300
Donations will assist the flood-damaged regions of Ceske Budejovice, Cesky
Krumlov, Jindrichuz v Hradec, Pisek, Prachatice, Strakonice and Prague.
Czech Greenways Flood Relief Fund:
The organizations which fund and run the Prague Vienna Greenways set up
a special flood relief fund for the recovery of cultural monuments,
public spaces and the environment in flood-affected towns and countrysides.
The Environmental Partnership for Central Europe (EPCE) in Brno, and its
Greenways program,
is coordinating the membership of 32 greenway associations
to identify needs in areas damaged by floods.
Grants will be made available for repairs and restoration of cultural
monuments,
public spaces and the environment in Prague and other towns and
villages along the Prague-Vienna Greenways.
You can send a check to Friends of Czech Greenways and
mail it to 515 Avenue I, #1B, Brooklyn, NY, 11230-2632.
Your contribution is tax deductible. For more information about us please
contact:
Suzanna Halsey, Friends of Czech Greenways
Tel: (718) 258-5468
Fax: (718) 258-5632
E-mail: friendsgw@aol.com
Web site:
http://www.PragueViennaGreenways.org
Direct Contribution to the Czech Republic:
For those who wish to make a direct contribution to the Czech Republic
a flood relief account has been opened by the Czech government at The Czech
National Bank:
Account #: 9025-001/0710
Swift Code for transfers from the USA: CHASUS33.
Web site:
http://www.cnb.cz
The Czech National Bank is waiving the usual transfer fee.
Please note that you will be charged any international transfer fees imposed
by your U.S. bank.
Theaters Under Water Fundraising Drive:
Among the cultural institutions critically damaged by floods are many
theaters. The damage was most severe to underground portions of buildings,
which house the technology that makes theaters function, and
sometimes entire theater spaces were damaged.
The AURA-PONT Agency with the Alfred Radok Foundation,
the Association of Professional Theaters of the Czech Republic and
Theatre Institute Prague started a fundraising drive with the goal of
reconstructing
the flooded and damaged theaters. This link provides all details including
up-to-date information on all damaged theaters and photodocumentation.
Among the most damaged venues are Theater on the Balustrade,
the Archa Theater, the Palmovka Theater, Cinoherni klub in Usti nad Labem,
and many others.
Please send your contribution to account #: 179201477/0300 at CSOB, Na prikope
14, 115 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic.
Web site:
http://www.theatre.cz
A Tribute to Relief Workers - Benefit Concert at the National Theater:
On September 1, 2002, the National Theater in Prague will host
a benefit concert as a tribute to all firefighters, policemen,
emergency workers and everyone else who took part in the flood relief
efforts in the Czech Republic.
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and prominent soloists will perform under
the auspices of President Vaclav Havel, his wife Dagmar,
and the Czech Minister of Culture Pavel Dostal.
The proceeds from the concert (admission is a minimum contribution of 1,000 Kc)
will be used to help all Prague cultural institutions damaged by floods,
and given to the flood relief fund "Vision 97" of the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation.
Web site:
http://www.czechcenter.com/Floods2002.htm
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