Our help during the COVID-19 pandemic
19/08/2020

As the whole world seemed to come to a standstill for a couple of months, our Purple Foundation team rolled up their (pyjama) sleeves and set out to help where help was needed. We are so happy we managed to support these five carefully chosen organizations to directly deal with the outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic: 

Fakultní nemocnice u sv. Anny v Brně

The faculty hospital of St Anne was activated as one of the few in the Czech Republic where the gravest causes of COVID-19 were treated. It was, therefore, our obvious first choice when it came to helping directly in medical facilities. The doctors, nurses, cleaning staff, and everyone in the hospital did a tremendous job dealing with the pandemics and we are happy to say we were able to support them with a purchase of eight videolaryngoscopes. Quite a big word, and we definitely needed an explanation when learning about them. A videolaryngoscope is, in short, a machine that helps monitor the speed and accuracy of intubation with affected patients, which makes it less risky for the doctors/nurses to get infected by the virus. They were put to good use and helped when needed, and knowing that is one of the best feelings our team in PuFo can have!

Find out more at: https://iweb3.fnusa.cz/

 

Videolaryngoscopes
Videolaryngoscopes

Nový Prostor

No one can deny the utmost importance of the Nový Prostor organization – giving people without their own homes a chance to get back on their feet and teach them some employment skills through selling a quality magazine is a beautiful and selfless job. I believe that many of us have their favourite seller, however, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of sold copies plummeted. Thus, the affected people without homes lost the possibility of paying for a night in a centre, medicine, food, and other necessities. Donating a sum of 30 000 Kč we helped them to partially cover the necessary costs. We wholeheartedly support and admire the activities of Nový Prostor and were happy to see that now everyone has an option to support their favourite seller directly – if interested, check out their website!

Find out more at: http://novyprostor.cz/

 

Mezi Námi

We have been a long-time fans of Mezi Námi, an organization that joins groups of seniors and children for activities such as drawing, reading, cooking, etc. Besides financially supporting their reading program for two years, which made it possible to start connecting these two age groups in Brno, we were moved and delighted by the Fairytale program they developed during the pandemic times. Mezi Námi has asked children from all around the country to draw their favourite fairytales and sent their drawings to seniors in senior centres who couldn’t meet their families and loved ones. More than 30 000 drawings and greetings from the little ones sure made many of them happy and less lonely, and that’s why we were quick to support this project as well!

Find out more at: https://www.mezi-nami.cz/pohadka-pro-radost

 

Halloween at the senior center
Halloween at the senior center

The Fairytale program
The Fairytale program

#ktopomôžeslovensku

A wonderful group of people in Slovakia who joined forces to donate as much as possible to those most affected by COVID-19. We were happy to donate €4000 to this organization, who have provided masks, gloves, respirators, disinfection, thermometers and other essential items to more than 1800 facilities! Besides that, their website is a great source of self-help techniques and advice for anyone affected by social, physical or mental difficulties during the pandemic. 

Find out more at: https://www.ktopomozeslovensku.sk/

AGAPI

We didn’t only help in Czechia, but reached out and supported a Cypriot organization as well! AGAPI is supporting those in dire need of financial help – mostly impoverished families and individuals. The main source of their income is their Charity shop which was closed due to the coronavirus. The organization delivered cooked food, dry food, such as rice, pasta, oil, tomato puree, beans, etc. They also helped the poorest of the community who are not entitled to any help with medicine and baby diapers, female hygiene products and soaps. Together they helped circa 1000 people a month and we are happy to enable them to do so with our donation! 

Find out more at: https://agapi.org.cy/

 

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