Nadace Terezy Maxové dětem

Bio:

The purpose of the Tereza Maxová Foundation is to provide comprehensive support and assistance to vulnerable and abandoned children, to give them a chance to grow up in a healthy and safe family environment. Because all children deserve love, attention and a place to call home. To help combat the growing number of children without homes, the Tereza Maxová Foundation focuses on the following three pillars of support: 1. We help to keep the child in a safe family environment Through supporting families in crisis, namely those at risk of having their children placed in institutional care, we are able to help reduce the number of children facing institutionalization. We mainly provide these families with fieldwork support, professional counselling, and therapy. 2. We promote and support foster parenting We help to raise awareness about all options of substitute family care, to encourage more opportunities for children in need. We work also to support foster and adoptive families, especially through non-profit organizations. 3. We compensate for shortcomings of institutional care upbringing For children growing up in children’s centres (formerly known as infant care centres) and other institutional care facilities outside of the family environment, we provide additional support services including education, therapy, and recreational activities. Through this, we seek to improve their experience in institutional care, and help them to build skills for the future.