The 19th edition of the Tehlička public collection for 2024 was registered by the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic in the register of public collections under registration number 000-2023-043443.

The Tehlička 2024 public collection ended on 31 October 2024.

The gross proceeds of the collection amount to EUR 116,097.84. The costs of running the collection were 24.82 percent. The net proceeds reached EUR 87,281.40.

The proceeds of the TEHLIČKA 2024 public collection were used to build a multi-purpose school hall at the St. Bakhita Educational Centre at the mission in Tonj in South Sudan, which is attended by more than 1,100 pupils and students.

89 organisations were directly involved in the collection — 60 kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, 21 SDB youth centres and other communities, 6 parishes and 1 company in towns and villages across Slovakia.

All participants were sent promotional and background materials, which served not only the collection campaign but also as resources for education and awareness-raising in the field of development cooperation and global education. As part of the collection, schools carried out — with our consent — their own activities serving its purpose.

WE THANK ALL DONORS AND PARTICIPANTS FOR SUPPORTING TEHLIČKA 2024

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING

The aim of the project was to support and improve the conditions for primary education in the Republic of South Sudan. This is one of the primary development priorities that lead to securing a dignified and full life for the population and to further progress with the help of domestic resources.

The means of improvement was an extension of the primary school St. Vincent de Paul Primary School by eight new classrooms in Juba – Gumbo. The number of pupils at the only school in the locality far exceeded the capacity of the individual classrooms and did not allow for quality teaching. It also prevented the school from admitting larger numbers of pupils. A further aim of the project was to raise the qualifications of the school’s teachers, which was achieved through a programme of courses and trainings. After completing them, the participants gained the appropriate knowledge and skills for effective educational work. Complementary to the project’s aims were activities for children and young people in the form of clubs, sporting events and so on. Their goal was to develop the children’s personal and social skills outside the classroom as well, and to offer them a meaningful alternative for spending their free time. The contractor and partner have a long-standing record of cooperation on similar projects. The partner also runs a primary and vocational school in other towns of South Sudan.

The project was supported from the state budget of the Slovak Republic through the SlovakAid official development assistance programme, in the amount of EUR 197,080.

The goal of the project was to improve healthcare for the residents of the Maridi district in South Sudan through the construction of a health centre providing regular medical care and through health education.

Above all as a consequence of the long-running war, there is an acute shortage of facilities providing such services in the country. Preventive programmes that could raise health awareness among the population are also lacking. The result is a low average life expectancy and high rates of illness and mortality, especially among children and mothers.

Thanks to the project, a hospital was built in the village of Manguo near the town of Maridi. It was officially opened on 20 November 2012 and provides regular professional medical services. The facility also delivers care to more distant areas, in particular through a mobile clinic.

The project raised health awareness among the population by introducing preventive education programmes and animations in individual villages of the district. These focused above all on the following topics: childcare, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, vaccination, hygiene, traditional medicine and the like.

The direct target group was more than 20,000 residents living closest to the new facility and within the direct reach of the mobile clinic. Indirectly, it also serves more distant or migrating populations.

The project was carried out in cooperation with BOSCOAID and was supported from the state budget of the Slovak Republic through the official development assistance programme SlovakAid with a contribution of €244,516.77.

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

The high illiteracy rate in South Sudan is a major brake on social, health and economic development. The project aimed to increase the availability and quality of education for both children and adults. It ran from November 2010 to February 2012 and focused on the renovation of the Don Bosco Bakindo Primary School in the village of Manguo and on improving the educational opportunities the school could offer.

The dilapidated parts of the school were replaced by two newly built classrooms, a staff room and an office. The poor sanitary situation around the school was tackled with newly built toilets for the pupils. Separate blocks for girls and for boys are helping to improve girls’ school attendance. Thanks to the classrooms being fitted out with school desks and benches, pupils no longer have to sit on the ground or on stones and branches brought in from outside. After lessons, various extracurricular activities were organized for the children, and several children’s camps were held during the holidays. In the 2011 school year (from March to December), more than 600 pupils studied at the school and a further 100 at the associated kindergarten. In December 2011, 21 eighth-graders sat their final examinations to complete primary school.

The pressing problem of the shortage of qualified and motivated teachers was addressed by providing training courses for teachers. The project also helped raise adult literacy through evening literacy courses for adults held in the newly built classrooms, which had been equipped with electric lighting. The project was supported from the state budget of the Slovak Republic through the official development assistance programme SlovakAid with a contribution of €162,115.20.

The aim of this one-year project was to teach local people, through agricultural training, how to farm their land sustainably and more efficiently. Sixty selected representatives from the individual villages of the district acquired, in three three-month cycles, knowledge of irrigation, composting, better tillage, planting and the like. In addition, agricultural courses were also introduced into the curriculum of the local primary school, and more than 300 pupils take them each year. Residents’ own farming activities were also supported by a micro-loan mechanism, a seed and seedling bank, and a system for lending machinery and tools.

Agriculture is the fundamental source of livelihood for the residents of South Sudan. Thanks to the training participants’ having taken on more effective techniques and methods, they will be less dependent on rainfall, less exposed to weather fluctuations and able to farm more efficiently. The project was an adaptation to climate change, which affects sub-Saharan Africa above all. In addition, as a consequence of half a century of civil wars in Sudan, residents lack knowledge of how to till the land and grow crops, as well as the necessary tools, quality seeds and seedlings.

The project was supported from the state budget of the Slovak Republic through the official development assistance programme SlovakAid with a contribution of €180,380.65.

The project was carried out in cooperation with St. Elizabeth University of Health and Social Sciences, n.o. Its aim was the purchase of a mobile clinic and its equipment (instruments, stretchers, medication, medical supplies), the purchase of vaccines, a refrigerator for storing vaccines and medication, and supporting the running and maintenance of the mobile clinic. The mobile clinic vehicle was purchased in 2008.

During the course of the project, weekly trips were made with the mobile clinic to four villages in Gumbo-Juba. The doctors thus visited 600–800 families whose members needed treatment. The aims achieved by the project include reducing child mortality, improving the health of mothers, and providing adequate healthcare to patients suffering from HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. The mobile clinic continues to operate in the area.

The project was supported from the state budget of the Slovak Republic through the SlovakAid official development assistance programme with the sum of EUR 109,680.

The goal of the Youth Centre in Juba-Gumbo project was to build and equip a multi-purpose facility that would host educational and leisure activities for street children, school-age youth, mothers and illiterate adults. Through the project, the target groups were given a meaningful way to spend their free time. The project helped develop the social conditions of the local community, build the value system of children and youth, and raise the educational level of local residents. The project was supported with EUR 370,000.

The main goal of the project was to build a school for children and youth in the rural area of Bresche in South Sudan, as well as to provide training for local teachers and adults and to support agricultural courses for adults. The expected target was to teach 120 children a year.

The project partner was the Austrian non-governmental organization Jugend Eine Welt (J1W), which implements and participates in projects for developing countries and the third world. It is part of the Salesian organizations network Don Bosco Network. The project was supported with EUR 40,006.

The main aim of this project was to ensure quality basic education for poor children from peripheral neighbourhoods, for young people and for adults in the town of Tonj and its surroundings. The support provided included basic school equipment, staff salaries and equipment for 10 satellite schools, as well as co-financing of their construction. The project was carried out in cooperation with the Don Bosco Development Office in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Slovak organization eRko. The project was supported with EUR 44,880.