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4,500 abandoned children want to grow up in a family

We are looking for parents for abandoned children to provide them with a safe haven and a loving family. Most of these kids have experienced a traumatising event and with your help, we can provide them and their new families with therapies, which will help "unbreak” their hearts.

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Street (of the) Youth

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We want more susceptible schools in Slovakia

We want to create a tolerant society in Slovakia. We strive to eliminate fear and prejudice against vulnerable groups of people through understanding their needs, obstacles and survival. In Eduma we use storytelling and emotional learning as the best and effective educational tools. Support our Academy of Critical Thinking.

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Sote Innovation Fair 2018 - the fourth harvest of startups that we help to grow at Kenyan schools

Nadácia Pontis, 09.08.2018

This year was different. The fourth Innovation Fair was focused on 26 small teams of up to four entrepreneurs that competed in various categories.

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Omamas already making a difference

Cesta von, 04.08.2018

Four months ago, we made a rather bold commitment to you that if you support us, we will employ one to three Omamas in the poorest communities in Slovakia in order to build a better foundation for children from birth up. Thank you for believing in us. Thanks to your donations, four Omamas have started working this week in the first three Roma settlements - in Zborov, Muránska Dlhá Lúka and Kecerovce. Take a look at a few photos depicting their work.

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40 for Omamas

Cesta von, 19.07.2018

On Sunday, July 22nd, I will turn 40. Yes, the big 4-0. One thing that can help me get through this mildly depressing milestone in my life is that I hope to use is to support a cause I strongly believe in.

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Winter is time for planning

kRaj, 20.02.2018

Bees doesn't sleep in winter. They are preparing for spring same like our organization. Last year was full of big things (new apiary, we were community project of the year, nature classroom or first conference under our direction). So it will be hard to make 2018 even greater. But only at the beginning of the year we see big opportunities.

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How you have helped so far

We collected
825 897 €

from
5800 donors

Average amount donated
30 € single payments

and regular payments
7 €

You wrote us

It says that giving happiness and helping others are the attributes of noble characters. It is amazing to know that thanks to the Pontis Foundation and the program ‘Dobrá krajina’ (Great country) every one of us can be noble.

Róbert Bános, BÁNOS Law Firm Ltd., pro bono lawyer of ‘Dobrá krajina’

My dream is to live in a country where people are not indifferent to each other or to the environment in which they live. And since I don’t want to leave, neither to sit nor wait until it is done by itself, I decided to help this great country because I believe in it!

Táňa Pauhofová, member of Board of Directors of ‘Dobrá krajina’ (Great Country), actress in the Slovak National Theatre

Let us live so that others could feel good in our lives.

Tomáš Janovic, member of Board of Directors of ‘Dobrá krajina’ (Great Country), writer, aphorist, epigrammatist, poet, lyricist, playwright and translator