T-Mobile Fund: grants totalling CZK 2.5 million distributed

• A total of 46 grant applications out of 166 received have been granted financial support
• T-Mobile will support 15 projects in the Hradec Králové region with an amount exceeding CZK 750,000

Prague/Hradec Králové, 25 October 2005 - The results of the T-Mobile Fund grant programme have become known. Members of the evaluation committees carefully studied the applications for the grant programme which met with great interest. The evaluation committee has selected 46 winning projects from among 166 grant applications. Applicants from Prague 11 and the Hradec Králové and Louny districts will soon receive cheques in the total value of nearly CZK 2.5 million. The official awarding of funds will take place in the T-Mobile buildings in Hradec Králové, Louny and Prague.

"We are really pleased about the large number of people who found our programme interesting. We believe that the next round of this programme which is planned for 2006 will also meet with great interest," says Jitka Chocová, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at T-Mobile.

The evaluation committee for the Hradec Králové region has decided that a total of 15 projects out of 76 grant applications submitted will receive financial support. The VIA foundation, which administers the T-Mobile Fund for the Hradec Králové region, will thus distribute CZK 765,000 among the winning organizations and associations.

Financial support will be granted particularly to projects which are focused on leisure-time activities and integration of disabled children into their peers' community, sports activities for children and young people, projects for emergency shelters, and accompanying activities within the European Regions Theater festival. Financial support will also be granted to the Teaching Hospital in Hradec Králové, namely to the Department of Children's Surgery and Traumatology.

The winning projects include not only projects submitted by non-profit organizations but also projects submitted by elementary and secondary schools. Financial support will thus be granted, for example, to the Secondary Professional Training Institution Hlušice for the project called Park Full of Life, and to the Elementary School of V. Kl. Klicpera in Nový Bydžov for the project for creating a "Green Zone".

The T-Mobile Fund was announced for the first time this year, as a new initiative of T-Mobile for three regions where this No. 1 Czech mobile operator has its offices: Prague 11, and the Hradec Králové and Louny districts. For this year, T-Mobile donated almost CZK 2.5 million to the Fund. This amount has been distributed among recipients by the Community Foundation of the Euroregion Labe in the Louny district and by the VIA Foundation in City District Prague 11 and the Hradec Králové district. The maximum amount of each grant is CZK 80,000 for one project which has to be implemented during the period from November 2005 to August 2006.

T-Mobile Fund for the Hradec Králové district: 

• 76 applications in total
• 15 projects supported
• Grants awarded in the total amount of CZK 765,000

T-Mobile Fund for the Louny district: 

• 60 applications in total
• 15 projects supported
• Grants awarded in the total amount of CZK 797,000

T-Mobile Fund for Prague 11 district: 

• 30 applications in total
• 16 projects supported
• Grants awarded in the the amount of CZK 765,000

For complete information on this grant programme and winning applicants, please visit www.lepsisvet.cz, or the websites of both foundations - the VIA foundation at www.nadacevia.cz, and Community Foundation of the Euroregion Labe at www.komunitninadace.cz.

Name of the organization*	Name of the project	Funds granted
Association of Friends of Vision-Impaired Children	Snoezelen Relaxation Centre	CZK 80,000
City Chlumec nad Cidlinou	Preventing Drug Abuse by Sports	CZK 10,100
Citizen's Counselling Center	Volunteers in the Teaching Hospital in Hradec Králové	CZK 70,000
DANETA, Association of Parents and Friends of Disabled Children	Leisure-time activities for disabled children and young people - Forgotten Trades	CZK 55,000
Dialog Citizen's Association	Art Workshops - Children for Children	CZK 50,000
Duha o.p.s.	Emergency Shelter	CZK 65,000
Eastern Bohemia Heritage Association	Restoration of the Sandstone Cross in Hradec Králové - Pouchov	CZK 40,000
Elementary School of V. Kl. Klicpera in Nový Bydžov	Green Zone	CZK 60,000
Free Association of Theatre Performers from Eastern Bohemia	Open Air programme during the XII. annual European Regions Theatre, 21 - 30 June 2006	CZK 60,000
Poco and poco animato	Centre for Contemporary Art	CZK 15,000
Pro-Centrál o.s.	Film and School - Film and Senior Citizens	CZK 60,000
Secondary Professional Training Institution Hlušice	Park Full of Life	CZK 80,000
Special Schools for Hearing-Impaired Children	We Live Like at Home and We Live Among You	CZK 70,000
Tyfloservis o.p.s., regional ambulatory center for social rehabilitation in Hradec Králové	Adjustments to the premises respecting the specific needs of seriously vision-impaired people	CZK 45,000
Youth Tourism Organization 1722 Pěšinky and Ostříži	In Nature Since Childhood	CZK 4,900

Note: *in alphabetical order

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