thank you for looking at this Christmas fundraiser to help seniors. I believe that no one should be alone especially not at Christmas time. We all deserve to be surrounded by those we love and to have a smile on our faces and joy in just these little things that we sometimes take for granted. At the same time, those who don't have this opportunity are often forgotten. That's why I decided to support again during every Sunday of Advent the Nobody Should Be Alone project from the Beauty of Help Foundation, where I have been volunteering for 8 years now, and still every day, I can see how important and meaningful this activity is.
If you would also like to join the donation challenge, do a good deed, and help put a smile on someone's face during Christmas, I and many others would be extremely grateful! You can find more information about the Nobody Should Be Alone project, which is being donated to as part of the fundraising campaign.
About the project:
Do you also think that no one should be alone? Then support and share our vision. Our vision is for happy seniors to live a dignified life at home. That's why we offer individual care, support, and assistance to all who need it. We explain the possibilities, provide aid, arrange assistance, and introduce services that enable seniors to live with dignity at home. In this way, we break the vicious circle in which services exist, but seniors do not know about them or do not know how to ask for them. We will also connect seniors who suffer from loneliness with our volunteers who spend time with them. If 5 people enter a standing order for 500 CZK a month, that means a full day of care, companionship, and support, which is often enough to enable a person to live at home and with dignity and not have to go into residential care prematurely.
One day as a care coordinator costs approximately 2,500 CZK. In that time, she can help one senior with everything they need for a month or visit and help more people. If you set up a regular order and send 500 CZK regularly every month, it is a double help for us. Thanks to regular donors we can plan our activities more easily and we can be sure that we can take care of the elderly person all year round and be there for them when they need us.
Unfortunately, in old age, a large number of seniors stay alone at home (at least 500,000 seniors live alone in the Czech Republic by 2024), conditions are often very difficult for them, and of course, none of us want to go to a nursing home. Having a beautiful and fulfilled life is nice, but having a dignified and joyful old age is another matter. For me, volunteering is very meaningful, it brings joy and happiness to the eyes of the person who enjoys your presence and visit. The feeling you get when you see someone truly happy because of you is non-transferable. Loneliness is one of the biggest scares for all of us, and due to increasing isolation, it is becoming an ever-growing divide across generations. Talking, understanding, respect, and time are the most precious things we can give to one another. The wisdom and the experience of elders are what inspire and motivate.
"It is happiness to know in youth the virtues of old age, and it is equally happiness to retain in old age the virtues of youth." W. de Goethe
Nadace Krása pomoci
Také si myslíte, že by nikdo neměl být sám? V tom případě máme společný cíl. Naší vizí je důstojné a plnohodnotné stárnutí pro naše prarodiče. Nadaci Krása pomoci založila Taťána Kuchařová v roce 2008 a my od té doby provázíme stárnutím a propojujeme generace.
Jak díky vám pomůžeme seniorům?
Podpora dalších neziskových organizací - Spolu s námi podporuje projekty, které pomáhají starším lidem - od aktivizačních projektů přes přímou péči po paliativní péči.
Zaměstnávání lidí 50+ - Zlatá práce je náš program na podporu zaměstnávání lidí 50+, který propojuje uchazeče a firmy. Chtěli byste také pomoct, až vám bude nad 50 a budete hledat práci?
Hlas seniorů ve vládních strukturách i v OSN - Spolu s námi jste hlasem, který mluví za starší lidi a jejich potřeby a zájmy.
Proč je potřeba pomáhat seniorům?
Více než 500 000 seniorů žije osaměle
25 % seniorů potřebuje pravidelnou péči
Pětina domácností seniorů má problém vyjít s penězi
15 % seniorů je přímo ohroženo chudobou.
Přibližně 250 000 lidí pečuje o své blízké
9 z 10 seniorů si přeje žít doma
V roce 2050 bude třetina obyvatel ČR v důchodovém věku.
60 % seniorů má špatné stravovací návyky
V ČR je okolo 500 domovů pro seniory. Žije v nich přibližně 36 000 klientů. Více než polovina žádostí nebývá uspokojena.
