Pay It Forward – A Birthday Fundraiser for the Seňorina Center
Michaela Rýgrová
For my birthday this year, instead of gifts, I'd love to pay it forward.
I'd be grateful if you joined me in supporting the Seňorina Center, which helps people living with Alzheimer's disease and their families. Every donation gives caregivers something incredibly valuable – a chance to rest, recharge, and take care of themselves for a little while.
For more than ten years, I celebrated my birthday at Burning Man, where gifting is one of the core principles. Giving without expecting anything in return – simply because you want to make someone else's day a little better.
This year, I want to bring that principle home.
Instead of birthday gifts, I'd love for us to support the Seňorina Center together.
I've known Jarka Švarcbachová, Seňorina's founder, for less than a year. Yet in that short time, she's given me enough energy to last a decade. That's one of the reasons I was so happy to become an ambassador for the Center. The more I learn about the people behind Seňorina, the more I realize how important their work truly is.
Alzheimer's disease doesn't affect only the person living with it. It changes the lives of entire families. And all too often, it's the caregivers who put themselves last.
Caring for someone with Alzheimer's is a marathon. Sometimes just a few hours of rest can make the difference between complete exhaustion and having the strength to keep going.
That's exactly what the Seňorina Center provides: the opportunity for caregivers to take a well-deserved break, knowing their loved one is in safe and caring hands.
Maybe this year you'd take me out for a drink. Or dinner. Or buy me a birthday gift. Or maybe you're simply too far away to do any of those things.
So let's do something different this year.
Instead of buying me a gift, please consider donating its value to the Seňorina Center. It would mean the world to me.
More importantly, it will give someone who spends every day caring for another person the chance to take a breath.
Thank you for being part of this birthday campaign. Knowing that together we're paying it forward is the best birthday gift I could ask for.
Relief for people with Alzheimer's disease and their families
Centrum Seňorina, z.s.
When Alzheimer's disease enters a person's life, it permanently changes his or her life and that of the entire family. Loss of short-term memory, disorientation in time and space, these are the consequences of the disease at an early stage. Within a short time, a person becomes completely dependent on the care of another person.
Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease is incredibly exhausting, both mentally and physically for any family. We help families in their difficult role take a moment to stop, rest and recharge. And they do this knowing that their loved ones are reliably cared for and in good company.
We do not yet have a cure for Alzheimer's disease, but we can slow its pace and give patients the opportunity to have a joyful time despite their diagnosis. The regular activation activities we offer our clients every day significantly slow down the progression of the disease and reduce the incidence of its negative manifestations such as depression, anxiety and aggressive outbursts.
The Senorina Centre has been providing respite social services to people with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia for 8 years. We help up to 70 clients and their families have a more joyful time each year.
But without the support of individual donors, this service would not work.
Your donation will be used to provide direct care relief services at the Señorina Center.
On behalf of all our clients and their families, thank you💛
Care of donors darci@centrum-senorina.cz www.centrum-senorina.cz
