posted Nov 25, 2019, 9:22 PM by Inese Ratuta
The Good Deeds Week 2019 is
Over
The Good Deeds Week 2019 organised by
the charity organization Palīdzēsim.lv is over leaving us with a feeling of
great satisfaction about the good works done. This Week was held 7-13 October
already for the 11th year in a row. For one week, more than 400 of good deeds
were done with the help of 15,000 people in Latvia.
The Archive of Works Done
Many animal shelters were visited this
year, donating both blankets and food, cleaning animal sheds, and taking out
for a walk dogs that have been left without an owner. Amongst the most visited
were Association Liberta animal shelter, shelter “Astes un Ūsas”, Līga’s Cat
Seniors' Home, animal shelters in Valmiera, Riga, Daugavpils, Ventspils,
Jelgava, Madona, Talsi municipalities, as well as Rezekne, Jekabpils and the
shelter of Latvia University of Agriculture Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. For
example, Jekabpils animal shelter received 260 kilograms of dog food and 80
kilograms of cat food in donations under this campaign.
Likewise, people of Latvia have been
active participants starting already from primary school age and joining in
cleaning up Aizkraukle, Kraslava, Edole, Roja, Rundale Palace, Vecumnieki,
Ogre, Riga, Jurmala, Valdemarpils, Viesite, Broceni, etc. neighbourhoods.
Nursing homes were visited, and seniors
were entertained with self-made gifts, concerts, and games. This year we
visited the elderly people's nursing home “Kalmes” in Sabile, nursing home “Atvasara”,
the nursing home of VSAC “Riga” Jugla branch, as well as a nursing home in Smiltene,
etc.
As every year, blood donations were made
at the State Blood Donor centre and many did so for the very first time. For
example, on October 15, 28 residents of Vecumnieki municipality donated blood
within three hours and six of them were engaged in the noble mission for the
first time.
This year, as every year, many children
from schools, kindergartens and hobby groups participated in the campaign,
especially these - Valdemarpils Secondary School “Mazpulki”, Kandava
Multifunctional Youth Initiative Center “Nagla”, Gaujiena Elementary School,
Ogre Technical High School, Ventspils Secondary School No. 2, Aizkraukles municipality
Secondary School, Valmiera Gauja Shore Secondary School, Adazi Secondary
School, Priekule Secondary School, Berzaune Elementary School, Piltene
Secondary School, Broceni Secondary School, Mores Elementary School, Rezekne
Catholic Secondary School, Malnava College, Kraslava preschool educational
institution “Pīlādzītis”, Vecumnieki Secondary School.
Likewise, many companies have joined
forces with schools, or employees themselves, going to animal shelters, nursing
homes, or cleaning up their neighbourhood. For example, in Rezekne Culture
House a charity concert was held - “To Anete from the Bottom of our
Hearts". It was arranged by the Rezekne Culture and Tourism Center. During
this concert, donations were collected for Anete who is suffering from health issues.
As usual, at the end of Good Deeds Week,
the organizers go to a school that has been active in responding to the call
for good deeds. This year - to Valdemarpils Secondary School, paying special
attention to the good deeds of Valdemarpils association “Mazpulcēni”, carried
out not only during the Good Deeds Week, but also throughout the rest of the
year.
Valdemarpils, as well as other active
doers of good deeds, will receive a special surprise from HC “Dinamo Rīga”, a
long-time partner of “Palīdzēsim.lv” - tickets to HC “Dinamo Rīga” hockey games
in “Arena Riga” in November.
This year has indeed been rich in good
deeds, both small and large. We believe and hope that the Good Deeds Week has
been a great encouragement to many, and the good deed boom has just begun!
Big and sincere thanks to our supporters
and partners!
We’ll see you during the Good Deeds Week
2020 doing even more good deeds for our Latvia!
We can do more good deeds when we
do it together!
Closing event for the Good Deeds Week 2019 in
Valdemarpils
As usual, at
the end of the week, we brought together the most hard-working participants to
celebrate those who did a lot of important and significant deeds during the
Good Deed Week with a special celebratory program.
The choice
was not easy as there have been many good deeds this year, each and every one
of them carried out with special care and love.
Together with
SIA “Jogita Events”, “Dinamo Rīga” mascot and photographer Andrejs Terentjevs,
we went to the picturesque Valdemarpils to express a special thanks to Valdemarpils
High School association “Mazpulks” and Valdemarpils High School students and
teachers for their active participation in the campaign.
The deeds
performed by residents of Valdemarpils can be listed on several pages:
-
Valdemarpils Evangelical Lutheran Church was tidied up for the holiday service.
Association “Mazpulks” cleaned the dust from the windowsills and benches, wiped
the floor and washed the altar, as well as cleaned the area surrounding the
church - removing the weeds from the pathways and collecting the fallen
branches;
– Madame Elza
got her firewood chopped and stowed away in the shed;
- once again
association “Mazpulks” organized a charity campaign to entertain the little
paws of the Talsi animal shelter "Ausma" involving residents of
Valdemarpils;
– the
association “Mazpulks” takes care of graves of former teachers of the
Valdemarpils Secondary School. They remove the fallen leaves, collect the
fallen branches, weed out the weeds in the area, lay flowers on the graves, and
light candles;
- association
“Mazpulks” entertains the retired teachers of Valdemarpils Secondary School
with flowers from their gardens own every year on the Day of Knowledge. This
year the flowers were grown by Elizabete, the youngest member of the “Mazpulks”
association - beautiful gladioli;
The list of
deeds was long and extensive, and as noted by Anda Dzene, Head of the
Valdemarpils “Mazpulks”, the good deeds are performed not only during this
special week, but throughout the year.
We, the
organizers of the campaign, are extremely pleased and overwhelmed to see that
there are such teachers, heads of “Mazpulks” and children in Latvia who are
wholeheartedly bring joy to others, tidy up own neighbourhoods and enrich
Latvia with their good deeds. And the joy of being a part of the good deeds
promoters is that the campaign is so important in providing the stimulus and
inspiration to do good deeds on a regular basis and continuously.
Valdemarpils,
as well as other active doers of good deeds, will receive a special surprise
from HC “Dinamo Rīga”, a long-time partner of “Palīdzēsim.lv” - tickets to HC
“Dinamo Rīga” hockey games in “Arena Riga” in November.
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posted Sep 25, 2019, 9:46 AM by Inese Ratuta
Campaign "The Week of Good Deeds 2019" from
October 7-13 throughout Latvia!
For the eleventh year during "The Week of Good Deeds"
organised by charity organisation Palīdzēsim.lv – both the smallest and also
experienced doers of good deeds are encouraged to do good deeds making think
about each smallest work, which may bring joy and ease daily life of other
person, which means so much for that other person, while for You these are just
a few moments of giving your helping hand and satisfaction with your deed.
During the "Week of Good Deeds", increased attention
is being paid to the help that can be provided without a large financial
investment. This may be help to a lonely person or a simple talk, even a smile
or a good word may mean so much.
Invite others to join
Your work and post information about the work You plan!
By working together, we can do more good deeds!
The charity organisation
“Palīdzēsim.lv”, the main target group of which are youths from a social risk
group, in cooperation with five countries, has started an international project
by submitting the project and receiving funding from Iceland, Lichtenstein and
Norway, which is provided by EEA and Norway in the form of a grant.
In the middle of July,
youths from Palīdzēsim.lv had a fantastic opportunity to participate in the
Erasmus+ youth exchange programme project “I can sea”, which was organised in
the most beautiful region of France – Bretagne. The project was organised by
the French youth organisation Coevrons Jeunesse
For the second year in a
row we help to organise and implement a talent competition for special children
and youths organised by the Latvian Support Association for Impaired Hearing
People Sadzirdi.lv.
The official issuing of
the Youth Employment Magazine is announced for the International Day of
Friendship of the UN. Almost 200 institutions from 26 European countries, which
implement projects funded by Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway, joined to share
the results of their initiatives aiming to combat youth unemployment in Europe.
June 1 was a big event
for the team of “Palīdzēsim.lv”, the children and youths cared by them and
their parents, supporters and volunteers of the organisation.
Those who received help
and those who provide support by donating money, products, services, their time
and talent met in a warm-hearted atmosphere in the guest house “Skultes muiža”.
In ten years the charity
organisation has helped over 500 children and youths.
Over 155 photo stories
with requests for help and about the same amount of photo stories showing how
we had together changed the lives of these children have been created.
Close cooperation with 8
care centres, 7 specialised boarding schools, 6 orphan homes all over Latvia
and the Ilguciems prison for women has been established.
32 summer
camps have been organised, countess hikes have been implemented,
together with youths we have participated in 7 Riga marathons and have just started
cooperation with “Stirnu buks”, 10
Week of Good Deeds have been organised, our Youth Club is meeting
every other week, as well as other biggest pride – Brīvbrīdis, where our
perfect special children and their fantastic moms meet.
Thanks to the trust of
our supporters and cooperation partners, we are planning our next decade :).
We participate in AndeleMandele Grand to be able to
continue our charity projects
For us to be able to
continue to implement charity projects, we participate in AndeleMandele Grand,
where it will be possible to acquire clothes, footwear and accessories of people
well-known in the society for donations.
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posted May 22, 2019, 8:56 PM by Inese Ratuta
Social rehabilitation programme “Brīvbrīdis” (“Spare
Moment”) for children with functional disorders and their legal representatives
and foster families
On
1 April, “Palīdzēsim.lv” starts the project “Social rehabilitation programme
“Brīvbrīdis” for children with functional disorders and their legal
representatives and foster families”, supported by structural funds of the
European Union and the Cohesion Fund.
The project provides for
introduction of an activity, aimed at ensuring accessibility of society-based
social services for 25 children with functional disorders and determined
disability, in order to improve their social and other skills and knowledge,
promote their integration in the society, educate them by using non-formal
education methods, motivate and raise self-confidence, improve functional
abilities, and introduce support activities for their parents, legal guardians
or foster parents. The project will involve 20 individual social
rehabilitation services for each child, which will improve their health
condition, develop intellectual and active movement and communication
capabilities, and will raise their self-confidence. It is planned that some of
these services will be provided as group classes. 20 group classes are planned during
the project, where children will have wide range of educational, developing and
rehabilitational sessions.
Summer camp for children with special needs and their
families
The
summer camp for children with special needs and their families “Butterfly
Summers 2019” („Taureņu vasaras 2019”) this year is organised in close cooperation with the charity
foundation “Be Open”.
This
summer camp serves both as intense rehabilitation process, and a huge adventure
for children, which they await even more than Christmas.
Whereas
for mums, who cannot leave their special children without attention and
assistance even for a moment, these days give an opportunity to breathe a
little, gain new experience, emotions, and make new friends.
For
all those, who are ready to support children with special needs and their
special families, details for donations will be useful:
Charity
Foundation BeOpen
Registration
no. 50008218201
Bank
account LV59 CBBR 1123 2155 000 10
Payment
purpose: support for summer camp
Commission fee is not applied to donations.
Learning reporting software through online training
within the framework of the international project “CODE”
We are learning a reporting
software in online training within the framework of the international project
“CODE”, supported by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.
This project will give an
opportunity for young persons to learn graphic design and 3D animation skills.
We visit L’Oreal Baltic together with mums of children
with special needs
We
visit L’Oreal Baltic together with mums of children with special needs to be
preened and receive advice about latest makeup and hairstyle trends.
“Brīvbrīdis” – visited by Aija Auškāpa
Another
“Brīvbrīdis” – is a cycle of classes for children with special needs and their
parents. This time we are visited by Aija Auškāpa - the manager of Brainstorm
and a member of X Factor panel of judges, and for children – a creative
session.
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posted May 19, 2015, 3:42 AM by Renāte Robežniece
Palīdzēsim.lv
at NGO festival
NGO Youth Festival 2015
"Jaunieši iesaistās!" ("Young
people are involved!") was held on 24 March at the exhibition centre
Ķīpsala, where Palīdzēsim.lv also took part and offered all interested persons
to find out more about its activities and participate in the event
"Radošums vieno!" ("Creativity
unites!"). By organizing this event, we wanted to show to any young
person visiting the forum that everything is possible in life.
The project is co-funded by
Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
We are going to take part
in the annual forum organized by the Saeima and the non-governmental
organisation (NGO) "Participation, equality and solidarity – current
values on the way to safety and freedom"
We
are going to take part in the annual forum organized by the Saeima and the
non-governmental organisation (NGO) "Participation, equality and
solidarity – current values on the way to safety and freedom".
Meeting of the Advisory
Board of Riga Youth Organisation
Palīdzēsim.lv
takes part in the regular meeting of the Advisory Board of Riga Youth
Organisation.
Spring for palīdzēsim.lv started
with a new successful collaboration with kitchen salon NOLTE Rīga!
Spring
for palīdzēsim.lv started with a new successful collaboration with kitchen
salon NOLTE Rīga! Young people cared for by Palīdzēsim.lv were invited to the
salon NOLTE Rīga in the Baron quarter where young people from socially
vulnerable groups had the opportunity to participate in cooking master class.
Cooking
master class – Preparation
for independent living: "How to survive in the big city?"
The
event was attended by young people studying to become assistant chef, and it
was a great opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired in school to real life
in a beautiful Nolte kitchen.
Palīdzēsim.lv team is
getting ready for Lattelecom Riga Marathon!
With
the support of the Lattelecom Riga Marathon, Palīdzēsim.lv team consisting of
17 young people and three employees has the opportunity to take part in the
marathon on 17 May. This year we accepted a new challenge and the most of our
participants will run 10 km distance. 10 km is a serious distance, so since 19
April Palīdzēsim.lv team organises a joint training every Sunday and takes part
in a joint training organised by Lattelecom in Mežaparks.
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posted Apr 14, 2015, 5:32 AM by Renāte Robežniece
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updated Apr 14, 2015, 5:51 AM
]
RITO kitchenware chain store in association with charitable
organization Palīdzēsim.lv is
continuing its charity campaign appealing to people to donate utensils and
kitchenware: pots, pans, tableware, plates, glasses and other useful things for
kitchen and home for the support of families at risk. There are so many families
in Latvia that really need your help: foster families, large families, low
income and disadvantaged families. They will be happy to receive and use your
donations on a daily basis. Please donate kitchenware from April 1 to April 30
at all RITO chain stores in Riga, Liepaja, and Ventspils.
More: http://www.rito.lv/mainivecopretjauno/
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posted Feb 27, 2015, 12:52 AM by Renāte Robežniece
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updated Feb 27, 2015, 12:54 AM
]
28.01. Visiting Emīlija
We are visiting Emīlija in
the Vaivari Rehabilitation Centre. 2 years have passed since our last meeting.
The girl is with her grandmother again, her mother wasn’t strong enough
:(. Emīlija is walking with a baby walker and is joyful! We are glad! In
spring she plans to have dolphin therapy.
29.01.
We are thinking, discussing, deciding
on the “Training programme for youth workers in 2015” in the Riga Youth Centre
“Kaņieris” together with other youth NGOs.
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posted Feb 5, 2015, 3:30 AM by Renāte Robežniece
Thanks to the support of VAS
“Latvijas Loto” we had the possibility to realize this project. During June- December, 2014 about 30 children and
young people which are from social risk families due to the lack of education,
health problems and/ or economical problems by using non-formal education methods were
tough new skills, integrated in the society, they also had the first insights into
the business. During the project in the cooperation with the experts in certain
fields were made 8 different creative workshops and a seminar.Many thanks to VAS “Latvijas Loto”!
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posted Feb 5, 2015, 3:29 AM by Renāte Robežniece
In autumn we were contacted by our long term
cooperation partner- shopping center Mols with a suggestion to realize together
a social project- to make special packs of cookies which will be given to the
cooperation partners of the shopping center as presents with an added value. In
this project more than 15 young people from foster families, social risk
families, special schools took part. In total during the day we cooked 50 kg
of cookies! Every of cookie had a piece of true love and thoroughness – as a gift from young people to the
receivers. The gifts were packed by the help of company Mc Ābols poligrāfija”. As a prize for taking part in
this project the young people have a possibility to enjoy the winter activities
together with their brothers and sisters.
Many thanks to T/C „Mols”, specially
to Lelde Gangnuse-Bērziņa, „Mārtiņa Beķereja”, „Vairāk saules”.
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posted Feb 5, 2015, 3:27 AM by Renāte Robežniece
In December we tried to realize different
activities in order to make real celebration for the children and young people
with different health and social problems by participating in the charity
markets, by realizing the joint project “The special Christmas goody” with the
cooperation of the shopping center Mols, „Mārtiņa Beķereja”, „Vairāk saules”, also
together with „E.pasaule” by making the calendar.
Thanks to the support of the donators in total
434 children and young people from socially unprotected groups together with accompanying persons could visit Līvu aqua park. This was
their the most desired dream also this year- to go to the aqua park.
Just after the new year we met with the young
people of Palīdzēsim.lv to have our Christmas celebration. We enjoyed
interesting games and theater elements, we also discussed with the young people
what has been done last year and planned the new challenges for 2015.
In December and January we sent the gifts by Pasta
Stacija to those children and young people who could not come to the aqua park.
Many thanks to all the donators: society „Nicole
Smile”, SIA „Avantex”, SIA „TRANSPORTS24 LATVIA”, SIA E-Pasaule, „Arrow ECS
Baltic OU”, Zita Ruņģe, Maija Baumane, Valaine Iveta , Ilvai Utāne, Daiga
Baranovska.
Thanks also to our cooperation partners for the
gifts: L’oreal Latvia, Stenders, Veiters, Ādažu čipsi, Egmont Latvia, Asta Pro!
Huge thanks also to photo news agency F64, Krapānu family, fans of the
hockey club “Dinamo Rīga”, „Media control”,
„Novo Nordisk”, SIA Draugiem. This project is co-financed by Island, Liechtenstein,
Norway.
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posted Feb 4, 2015, 11:24 PM by Renāte Robežniece
Several
social integration events were implemented in December, incl. the annual
Christmas charity event “Make hearts warmer”, a visit to Līvu water park for
400 children, youths and their families, a charity market and other charity
events during the game of HK Dinamo Rīga in Arēnā Rīga, as well as
psychology trainings for youths headed by a psychologist.
A joint
project by SC Mols and Palīdzēsim.lv “Special Christmas hamper” was
implemented. Within the framework of the project, special packs of cookies were
created and delivered to tenants and cooperation partners of the Mols shopping
centre as gifts with added value. One of social integration events for children
and youths from target groups was preparation of cookies.
A Christmas
miracle was created for visually impaired children and their families by
organising a meeting at the “Christmas Waiting Event” jointly with the Latvian
Support Association for Visually Impaired People Sadzirdi.lv. A visit to the
event of Gaujiena Orphanage was organised to surprise the children and give
them a true holiday! Volunteer artists of the organisation were also involved
in the event – Liene Šomase, Jogita Pūpola and Pārsteigumu Karuselis!
A support
raising project was started in December together with NUKO.lv internet
supermarket, which will help to provide food and domestic things to the
families supported by Palīdzēsim.lv.
In November,
there was also a meeting in the EU House with the “Healthy Choice” NGO from
Belarus, and Palīdzēsim.lv presented its experience in the work with young
people and families subject to social risks, as well as learned the experience
of Belarus.
The project
receives financial support from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the
co-funding granted to the project in 2014 made 90% of the total costs of the
project or EUR 24,179.70.
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