The 12th edition of the Tehlička public fundraising campaign for 2017 was entered in the register of public collections of the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic under number SVS-OVS2-2016/033933.

The gross proceeds of the collection amounted to 154,350.46 euros. The costs of running the collection were 17.49 percent. The net proceeds of 127,352.10 euros are earmarked for supporting the education of approximately 4,600 children from refugee camps. Education will help them process the trauma of war and prepare them for the reality once the conflict ends in the future. Because the future is the one thing we can give them together.

Directly involved in the collection were over 110 kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and almost 50 youth and other organizations in towns and villages across Slovakia. All participating schools and organizations received promotional and background materials, which served not only the campaign for the collection but also as resources for education and awareness-raising in the area of development cooperation. As part of the collection, schools — with our consent — carried out their own activities serving its purpose.

The net proceeds of 127,352.1 EUR supported the following activities:

Humanitarian food aid for families in the camp for internally displaced persons, Juba-Gumbo

Food distribution was provided for 2,020 families in the camp for internally displaced persons in Juba, Gumbo area, as well as for 500 of the most vulnerable families living in communities in the area around the camp. Food was distributed during the critical period at the end of each month from June to August 2018. The internally displaced persons in the camp chose their own representatives and divided themselves into groups of 50 households each. They agreed on an effective way to distribute the food items. The displaced persons came in groups of 50 to the storage area, where during the food distribution those responsible checked their registration cards, marked and stamped by the camp management. Based on the documentation presented, they then proceeded to allocate the monthly food portion consisting of maize flour, beans, cooking oil and salt. In this way, 2,055 50-kilogram sacks of maize flour, 285 50-kilogram sacks of beans, 190 20-litre canisters of oil and 150 5-kilogram cartons of salt were distributed.

Support for education at the primary school for internally displaced persons, Juba-Gumbo

Thanks to the collection, 1,200 internally displaced children and 400 children from local communities received school uniforms as well as school supplies, which they would otherwise not have been able to afford. School supplies included notebooks — the number per child depended on the number of subjects — and a pen and pencil. With the help of other partners, breakfasts in the form of porridge with milk were also provided for the children during the project. The project contributed to better school results (77% of children achieve excellent results), a higher number of children in school (compared with 2018, when there were 1,200 children in the school, by 2019 enrolment had grown to 2,352 children in the primary school) and better attendance.

Accompanying educational and leisure activities, Juba-Gumbo

The collection supported sports and cultural events for the children of the primary school for internally displaced persons, as well as educational seminars on health, hygiene and peace-building. The seminars were held in cooperation with the elected representatives of the internally displaced persons in the camp. Thanks to the seminar on health and hygiene, hygiene in the camp improved, as did the system for reporting health problems. The peace-building seminar made it possible to identify shortcomings in the internal management system in the camp, to create a more effective management structure, to redistribute roles and responsibilities among the camp leadership and also to set up committees dealing with the topics of youth, security and disadvantaged camp residents.

Material equipment for the primary school for internally displaced persons, Juba-Gumbo

The net proceeds of the collection also supported equipping the classrooms and the teachers’ room with the necessary furniture at the school for internally displaced persons in Juba-Gumbo. The furniture purchased included desks, tables, benches and book shelves.

THANK YOU TO ALL DONORS AND PARTICIPANTS FOR SUPPORTING TEHLIČKA 2017