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Czech Republic: Drop-in club moves and starts children's rights project

13 February 2015
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The Pavlač drop-in club, which has been working in a socially excluded locality of Brno for 13 years, is re-opening after a year’s hiatus at its new address, Vranovská 4. The club will provide social services to children and youth from the Brno city center and surrounding neighborhoods.

Just before the close of 2013, the club moved to its new location, but the opening was postponed until now because the space required reconstruction. The club is a space for children and youth where they can take advantage of educational activities, social services, and recreational activities.

Last year the club also launched a social work project with children aged six to 11, as well as field social work in local residential hotels, which staff continue to visit regularly. Serving that population is also one of the reasons the club launched a project at the beginning of this year called "About Children with Children" as part of its social activation program for families with children.  

The aim of the project is to protect children’s rights and safely involve them in decision-making processes that immediately concern them. "On the basis of our many years of practice in working with children and their families in difficult living situations, we see that children should have the opportunity to speak their minds about matters concerning them and should have the opportunity to influence the development of their family’s affairs," explains Sandra Šmídová, who manages the social activation program.

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