Vouchers not only for coffee & food for people without homes and in need
How to help someone who is without home or in need? Through MM vouchers and the Solidarity Network, you can buy them a coffee, sandwich or soup. You can give a specific service to someone who could not otherwise afford it. Thanks to you, people without homes and people in need can then benefit from a range of services at Solidarity Network businesses across Prague to help them get back on their feet.
Firstly, we are concerned with practical, respectful help based on the specific needs of people who are on the margins of our society and in situations of social exclusion. And secondly, we also want to enable these people to feel welcome and accepted within their neighbourhoods. Every year the number of people in need and the number of vouchers used grows. In winter 2022/23 we have provided 1030 of them.
Mrs Petra (60) has been in housing need for about 11 years, since the death of her partner, whom she cared for until his death. As she is a few years away from being eligible for a pension, she is dependent on material hardship benefits. She deals with her situation with a social worker:
It helps me a lot. Coffee gives me such energy to get things done, and to keep me so alive. Sometimes it's a dessert or a sandwich. You get a break in those cafes, you get a chance to read the newspaper sometimes when I need to run to the office quickly. In the quiet of a table I can do something or write something, which helps me a lot. You just can't do that on a bench somewhere. It's worst in winter. When the weather is bad, it helps me to go to the café. Some places even pour me tea. Or to warm up, so you don't get cold outside, which is important.
Who's involved?
Gastro businesses - mostly small cafes, bistros and restaurants that offer "suspended" coffee/tea, sandwich, lunch, falafel, ermine, soup or something as rare as dessert for people in need. We support the following shopkeepers: Coffee and Riot (P1), Cafe Therapy (P1), Dobrá Trafika Korunní (P2), Kavárna Pražírna (P2), Bistro Habibi (P2), prostor39 (P3), ROH – družstevní kavárna (P3), Potrvá (P6), Knihkopec (P7), Family coffee & bistro (P8), Kafe na dřevo (P14).
Second hand - allow for the purchase of clothes for those who shouldn*t be able to afford them, for example work clothes. We support: the Restart Shop (P1 and P7).
Theatre, where your donation makes it possible for low-income seniors*seniors or people from shelters to go. We support: the Studio Hrdinů (P7).
Community fitness center - allows you to get coffee here, but also mmj. use the free shower service. We support: Sedmička v pohybu (P7).
We inform people without homes and in need in cooperation with partner social services (mainly through streetwork but also other programs of organizations Naděje, Salvation Army, Charita, etc.) that they can come to use the services. However, since the Solidarity Network has been operating since 2017, many people are already familiar with the system. The services are non-addressed and can be used by anyone in need.
In the time we have been operating, we have already provided 9,436 vouchers to people without homes and in need, with a total value of CZK 578,855. The public can always subscribe for more vouchers locally – directly at the solidarity shopkeepers involved in the Solidarity network.
We take a fee on the online vouchers, which we use to cover aministration fees of darujme.cz and the accounting costs. Vouchers that are prepaid directly at the solidarity shopkeepers go 100% to the shopkeeper.
What made us happy was when a gentleman who used the service himself got out of his difficulties and came to buy a voucher for other people in need. Kavárna Pražírna, Prague 2
We had a couple come this fall, and the lady thanked me after each visit and even emailed me to make sure I didn't mind if they came again. (The lady now works at another Solidarity Network café, which makes me incredibly happy)..... We made another lady very happy when she got a cupcake she was craving (it's silly, but true). ROH – družstevní kavárna, Prague 3
The first gentleman who was with us for the Místní místním voucher was so excited, he was looking forward to the show the first time the box office opened and thanked us profusely afterwards. I had a feeling it was something he hadn't been able to afford for a terribly long time. Studio Hrdinů, theatre, Prague 7
The voucher has already been used by several people in need who needed work clothes for temporary work and for everyday wear after winter. Restart shop, Prague 1 a 7
The Solidarity Network creates connections between people and also provides a wide range of basic infrastructure services for free, such as water, access to toilets and the opportunity to sit down. This assistance is not only for people without homes, but also for anyone who finds themselves in need. Your support in this appeal to purchase vouchers will help us expand our assistance and allow Solidary Network to continue providing more costly services. Together we can change lives and continue to help those in need.
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Ahoj,
netušil jsem, že taková služba existuje a narazil jsem na vás na FB. Tak přece jen založení tohoto účtu bylo k něčemu dobré. Budu moc rád, když najdete kavárnu i v jiných městěch. V Brně s tím rád pomůžu, stačí mě nasměrovat.
S úctou Lukáš Meistner
Lukáš Meistner
CZK 100
S dobrou kávou je lepší den :))
Karel Formánek
CZK 100
Snad to udělá někomu radost:)
toni
CZK 500
Doufám, že někomu pomůže
Tereza Čečetková
Ester, all the best for Mistni mistnim! God bless! x
Ahoj,
netušil jsem, že taková služba existuje a narazil jsem na vás na FB. Tak přece jen založení tohoto účtu bylo k něčemu dobré. Budu moc rád, když najdete kavárnu i v jiných městěch. V Brně s tím rád pomůžu, stačí mě nasměrovat.
S úctou Lukáš Meistner
S dobrou kávou je lepší den :))
Snad to udělá někomu radost:)
Doufám, že někomu pomůže
Ester, all the best for Mistni mistnim! God bless! x
Bůh Vám žehnej
Snad to někomu udělá radost nebo pomůže ت