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Current AffairsFighting borrowed prejudices about Africa
The African community in the Czech Republic today amounts to about 3,000
people. It has been shrinking since the fall of the communist regime when
many scholarships were offered to students from African countries. Even
today the community consists mainly of former students who have settled
down here. Now the Czech Republic's joining the EU has brought new changes
and not just for the better, according to Kofi A Nkrumah from the
organisation Humanitas Afrika in Prague. He spoke to Jarka Halkova, at an
forum in Prague in celebration of the Czech Republic's first ever
"Black History Month".
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Topics discussed in this week's Mailbox: speed limits in the Czech Republic
and Czech charitable organisations active abroad. We quote from letters
from Ashik Eqbal Tokon from Bangladesh, Mick Horsefield from England and
Muhammad Shamim from India.
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Current AffairsCzech NGOs active in Beslan
Following the tragedy in Beslan, where more than 300 people died in a
school that had been occupied by terrorists, the Czech Foreign Minister
Cyril Svoboda met the Russian ambassador to Prague, Alexey Fedotov this
week. He reiterated the Czech Republic's offer to provide rehabilitation
stays for the Russian children in this country, complete with
post-traumatic counselling and care. The largest Czech health insurance
company has already begun setting up stays by the sea for 180 children
from Beslan. More
Current AffairsCaritas team goes to Uganda to supervise child sponsorship programme
Most Czechs make occasional or regular donations to some form of charity.
Some people go further - they adopt a child "long distance" - to
give them the chance of a better life - in India, Uganda, Lithuania or
Belarus. The child sponsorship project was launched several years ago by
Caritas Prague, a Czech Catholic charity, and to date it has given 11
thousand children an education. The project's public relations officer
Sona Reznickova has just returned from a month-long-stay in Uganda where
she visited some of the young beneficiaries. We asked her to share her
impressions:
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Current AffairsCzech Humanist Movement boasts with long-distance adoption programme
Many of you, especially our listeners in Africa and Asia, have most
probably heard of the international Humanist Movement. Its aim is to bring
together people from all corners of the earth and of different ages,
nationalities, culture, and religion to make the world a more humane place
to live in. The Czech branch has been active for about a decade,
increasing contributions to world peace as the years go by. Its most
popular activities are currently in West Africa. Dita Asiedu spoke to Tana
Bednarova, a volunteer who has just returned from Guinea-Conacry. Dita
started off by asking her how the Czech branch of the Humanist Movement
has been involved in Africa:
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Current AffairsCzech Catholic Charity helps ease the plight of people in war-torn Chechnya
The Czech Republic is playing an active role in helping to ease the plight of people in war-torn Chechnya, which in recent years has experienced two wars when fighting for independence from Russia. One of the Czech organizations operating in the region is the Czech Catholic Charity. Catholic Bishop Vaclav Maly and the head of the charity, Jaroslav Kopriva spent a week in the region earlier this month to see the Czech humanitarian aid working. Alena Skodova reports:
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