Project Report
| Jul 18, 2023
Supporting cancer patients - report after 9 months
By Michal Blazka | financial and personal manager
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volunteers in training
Nine months ago, we launched a project on GlobalGiving to support families of cancer patients. The number of families who have contacted us continues to grow and now numbers in the hundreds. However, not all clients need long-term care; approximately 2/3 of them only need advice on where to go or what to do, and do not need to use the full capacity of our multidisciplinary team. The biggest demand is for social work, particularly for advice on disability pensions and personal independence payments, where there is a 300% increase on last year. This is very specific consultation at the interface between social work and medicine. Amelie is the only organisation that can provide this type of service in the Czech Republic. But nutritional therapists and psychologists are also almost at capacity. We are now looking for psychologists and therapists who can join our team and help us fulfill our mission. After two intensive training sessions in April, new volunteers have joined our prorgam. They took place in Prague and Olomouc. We are planning another training in September. Thank you to all donors for their support! The project is facing some changes, such as increased demand for our services and changes in the team, but this is not a problem for our experienced coordinators and management. The project is making good progress and targets for the number of anticipated clients will be coming soon
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workshop for patients with model Tamilla Sparow
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Art-therapy for patients
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Mar 21, 2023
Supporting cancer patients - report after 6 months
By Michal Blazka | financial and personal manager
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The month of the tulips - Tulips for medical staff
We launched a project to support families of cancer patients on GlobalGiving six months ago. The number of families who have contacted us has already exceeded 50 and we have already managed to raise almost 40% of the target amount. Also thanks to the funds from this campaign, we were able to hire two new psychologists, and we are also planning to open a social worker position in the near future. The increase in demand for some services has reached 50% - this year the crisis line handled 60 clients in January and February, compared to only 41 clients last year. So the expansion of the team comes hand in hand with the increase in demand for psychosocial help from cancer patients.
Volunteers have started going to other hospitals, and also to new departments. We are therefore preparing two more training sessions for new volunteers in April.
Then, the whole month of March we are running a communication campaign called "The Month of the tulips", where we inform the public about oncology issues and also volunteers decorate the hospitals with pictures.
Thank you to all donors for their support, the project is going as planned.
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volunteers decorate the hospital with pictures
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Nov 21, 2022
Supporting cancer patients - report after 3 months
By Michal Blazka | financial and personal manager
We launched the project to support families of cancer patients on GlobalGiving in August. Supporting cancer patients and their families is the core mission of our organization, as there is no other organization in the Czech Republic that provides this support.
In the first three months, more than 70 cancer patients or their loved ones have contacted us. Considering the relatively short time that has passed since the beginning of the project, we consider this a great success. Approximately 2/3 of the clients have contacted us for one-off advice or rapid intervention and are therefore not included in the project. However, 22 clients and their families need long-term support, a multidisciplinary approach involving a psychologist, social worker, nutritional therapist and other professionals in our Centres.
Also, the volunteer programme in the oncology wards has welcomed a number of new recruits who have undergone two days of training and are involved in the care of the patients.
We thank all donors for their support, and we especially thank the donor who chose to support our efforts with $5,000. This financial support ensures the sustainability of services for months to come. As the project continues, the coming Christmas holidays are one of the difficult times of the year for lonely people, and we are not relenting in our efforts to provide psychosocial support to everyone who contacts Amelie.
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