Our organization The good fairies was set up in September 2015 by us – three fairies: Angelika, Michaela and Saskia.

As the name suggests, we focus predominantly on children from children’s homes, however, we also support foster families. The children mostly enjoy sports and cultural activities, they seek attention, appreciate friendly care and affection. We also provide the children with remedial classes and help them prepare for further studies. We put the main emphasis on a child´s personal growth. In June 2018, we obtained Award D for  extraordinary achievement as regards children’s homes.

Currently, we have three children’s homes under our wings that we pay regular visits to and organize activities of different sort – summer and winter camps, trips and educational programmes.
We visit the children´s home in Nové Strašecí every Wednesday, the children´s home Krnsko every Thursday. The children from the children´s home Mladá Boleslav join us in various weekend and cultural events or take part in the aforementioned camps.

What activities do the Fairies focus on together with the children and how does the whole process work?

We visit the children in Nové Strašecí and Krnsko once a week. We usually talk with the kids at the beginning of the school year – we discuss with them what is ahead of them and what they wish. We have established one rule – we never push them to study. We try to motivate them, guide them and show them that learning can be fun and happen in a natural way. This rule has proven to be a good thing – children are literally eager to learn something new. Their school results speak volumes. We thus know that we are on a good track and that is what counts.

The children mainly need to improve in mathematics and English. If possible, we prefer to teach them individually or in pairs. The older children come first: we speak with them about their future (not only jobwise), but we also we try to find ways how to motivate them and help them.

Apart from the extra remedial classes, we like to spend time with the kids outdoors. We play games and do other leisure pursuits which they fancy – e.g. we organized a volleyball training (particularly popular among older children) in Nové Strašecí in the spring 2018. 🙂

Although our help is purely charitable (we do not get any salary), we find this activity very rewarding – children´s smiles, joy and heart-warming hugs make up for any financial reward. Every week we spend at least three hours in all three children’s homes trying to create a closer bond with the kids. This is what our children value most. Needless to say, it is a big commitment, but when things are done with love, all apprehensions vanish. Not only the children inspire us, we get inspired by them.

We go to the children’s homes to fill our hearts with love and affection.