Disabled children will get to school more easily
Public 04.12.2007 in category Press News / CSR and Sponsoring
- The Jistota special school in Prostejov can now use a new Ford Transit minibus for its children
- The T-Mobile Employee Fund contributed CZK 75,000 for the operation of the minibus
Prague, 4 December 2007 - The services of the Jistota private school for disabled children are in great demand not only in Prostejov, where the school is located, but also in the greater surrounding area encompassing the Olomouc, Prerov and Vyskov regions. The school recently acquired a Ford Transit minibus so that the schoolchildren could travel more safely, and the T--Mobile Employee Fund contributed CZK 75,000 for its operation. Thanks to the minibus, commuting to school is now much safer, and so is traveling between school facilities in Prerov and the nearby village of Vysovice.
"The Jistota civic organization has been expanding its activities for many years. The organization's systematic care for severely disabled children is admirable, and so are the results; it definitely deserves our support," says Martina Kemrova, Senior Head of Corporate Communication at T--Mobile.
The school was founded by Marie Turkova who has also been its director since its inception. It opened with four classes of 17 children of different ages on 1 September 1993 with the help of residents of the Prostejov region and local firms. In May 1994, the Specialni skola, o.p.s., as it was then called, moved into a restored building in Ivan Olbracht Street in Prostejov. The school's student body doubled at that time. At the beginning of the 21st century, the school acquired the Na Tetine building and its activities spread even further. "As the children grow up, it is necessary to prepare them for challenges so that they can lead a quality life in the future," says Marie Turkova, adding: "We therefore elaborated a joint project of restoration and renovation of the Vysovice castle with the local town hall, which included setting up a school of practical education, with one- and two-year training programs whose classes opened at the beginning of this year." All these improvements resulted in a new name for the civic organization to reflect the changes; last autumn it was renamed as Stredni skola, zakladni skola a materska skola Jistota, o.p.s. (High school, elementary school and nursery school Jistota).
Altogether, about 60 pupils aged 3 to 18 currently attend the school. The school provides children with both mild and severe mental, sensory or physical disabilities with first-rate individual care, education and rehabilitation: hippotherapy, canistherapy, physical education, etc. "A number of children whose disabilities prevented them from moving on their own started walking again. Some children later started attending ordinary elementary schools, got admitted to grammar schools and even to universities," says Marie Turkova. "Our objective is to develop the children's abilities to the maximum possible extent." However, the school's plans extend even further: After the Vysovice castle is renovated, it will also provide apartments for disabled persons requiring medical care. "We want to make sure that all of our children can live their lives to the full even after they become adults, regardless of whether this concerns their work, cultural or social life," says Turkova.
This is the second year that various projects have received financial contributions from the T--Mobile Employee Fund. Funding set aside for the T--Mobile Employee Fund is managed by the VIA Foundation, which selected proposals from among 133 projects recommended by T--Mobile employees, distributing the total amount of CZK 2 million among 27 organizations.
More information is available from Marie Turkova, e-mail: marie.turkova@seznam.cz, tel.: 528360007, web: www.pytetin.cz.
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