How can I help?

LET’S HELP TOGETHER

1) As a vol­un­teer

1.A) Would you like to help hos­pi­tal staff and their patients?

Would you like to get involved in help­ing those who are ill?

Help para­medics now in this dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion!

Reg­is­ter for the course for vol­un­teer para­medics, where you will learn all about the work of para­medics and receive a cer­tifi­cate of com­ple­tion of the course, which you can also use in the future.

Where the cours­es take place: in Brno at a med­ical school

The con­tent of vol­un­teer­ing: help­ing pro­fes­sion­al para­medics – espe­cial­ly nurs­es – with car­ing for patients.

Course con­di­tions: com­mu­nica­tive knowl­edge of the Czech lan­guage (the course is con­duct­ed in Czech), a per­son above 18 years old, clean crim­i­nal record (= nec­es­sary extract from the crim­i­nal record)

The course is orga­nized in coop­er­a­tion with the Czech Red Cross and the Gen­er­al Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal. Detailed infor­ma­tion about the course con­tent can be found at zvladnemeto.cervenykriz.eu

How to reg­is­ter for the course: 1. Click on the web­site: zvladnemeto.cervenykriz.eu

2. Click on: REGISTER (at the very bot­tom)

3. Click on: Next

4. Fill in your per­son­al data

5. Answer the ques­tions

6. Select a course date

7. Agree to the pro­cess­ing of data and click on: Sub­mit

Knowl­edge of the Czech lan­guage is required to com­plete the form. Do not for­get to state that you are inter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pat­ing in a course out­side of Prague and then choose a course held in Brno.

Once com­plet­ed, you will be con­tact­ed by phone by a Red Cross employ­ee.

1.B) Would you like to help with the every­day prob­lems of affect­ed house­holds?

Help­ing first-line patients is extreme­ly impor­tant, but there is a num­ber of oth­er activ­i­ties that need to be car­ried out to get through the pan­dem­ic togeth­er.

The Vol­un­teer Cen­ter Muni helps records the requests for help through a smart appli­ca­tion and will appre­ci­ate every sin­gle vol­un­teer who is will­ing to pro­vide it. It includes, for exam­ple, help­ing seniors with gro­cery shop­ping or tutor­ing chil­dren, but it also tries to sup­port the pub­lic’s own projects and offers them sup­port and con­sul­ta­tion.

Detailed infor­ma­tion can be found at: munipomaha.cz

How to par­tic­i­pate:

  1. Down­load the app “muni helps”
  2. Fill in your pro­file includ­ing infor­ma­tion on where and how you’re will­ing to help (you can deac­ti­vate your pro­file at any time to indi­cate that you can’t help at the moment)
  3. In the “request for help” sec­tion, choose the activ­i­ty you want to do
  4. In case of fur­ther ques­tions, you can con­tact: mail@munipomaha.cz

2) By donat­ing old elec­tron­ics, mon­ey or even blood

2.A) Do you have an old lap­top, tablet or smart­phone that you do not use any­more?

COLLECTION OF ELECTRONICS FOR ONLINE EDUCATION

Dear clients,

we would like to inform you about the col­lec­tion of elec­tron­ics orga­nized by the Brno net­work of Rebel­bean cafés and the Ratolest Brno asso­ci­a­tion. They decid­ed to orga­nize a col­lec­tion of lap­tops, phones and tablets for fam­i­lies with chil­dren that do not have them and need them for the pur­pose of e‑learning. What can you donate? Espe­cial­ly func­tion­al lap­tops with a charg­ing cable, tablets and smart­phones. Ide­al­ly with a new­ly installed oper­at­ing sys­tem. If you are not sure how to install it, you can try to ask your friends to see if any­one can give you advice. If that does not work out, please delete at least all your per­son­al files and pass­words. If you can, join the col­lec­tion or let your friends, acquain­tances or col­leagues know about it.

The col­lec­tion loca­tions, where you can bring your dona­tions, are:

  • Rebel­bean Vlně­na (Pří­zo­va 5, 602 00 Brno-střed)
  • Rebel­bean Jun­drov (Ves­lařská 36, 637 00 Brno-Jun­drov)
  • Buch­ta B (Šte­fániko­va 85/16, 602 00 Brno-Králo­vo Pole-Pon­a­va)
  • Kobli­ha (Pekařská 433/68, 602 00 Brno-střed-Staré Brno)
  • The Ros­es Beer & Cof­fee (Purkyňo­va 2415/116, 612 00 Brno-Medlánky)
  • Piknik box (Björn­sonův sad, 611 80 Brno-střed)
  • Komár kafe – espres­so bar (Kouni­co­va 58/85, 602 00 Brno-Žabovřesky)
  • Indus­tra Cof­fee (Mas­ná 9, 602 00 Brno-jih-Trnitá)
  • Plezír (Čecho­va 384/25, 664 51 Šla­pan­ice)

2B) Have you expe­ri­enced COVID-19 and are you a man aged 18–65 years?

Donate con­va­les­cent plas­ma to help patients devel­op anti­bod­ies. The con­di­tions for being a donor are rel­a­tive­ly strict due to health rea­sons. The basic con­di­tion is that you are a man aged 18–65 years (first dona­tion under 60 years), you had a SARS-CoV­‑2 infec­tion (you had a pos­i­tive test) and at the same time, you had clin­i­cal symp­toms such as dif­fi­cul­ty in breath­ing, high tem­per­a­ture, cough and oth­er. You must also be healthy for at least two weeks, com­plete­ly asymp­to­matic, and opti­mal­ly the time since you recov­ered should not exceed three months.

In addi­tion to these con­di­tions, it is required to meet the gen­er­al require­ments for donat­ing blood and their com­po­nents, includ­ing espe­cial­ly health prob­lems or vis­its in risk areas. You can find more infor­ma­tion here: www.transfuznispolecnost.cz/darci-krve or here: www.fnbrno.cz/letak-daruj-krev

At The Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal Brno, it is pos­si­ble to make an appoint­ment on week­days from 6:30–14:00 using the toll-free line 800 900 097, or the reg­u­lar line 532 233 607. In case of any prob­lems, you can con­tact tto-darcekrve@fnbrno.cz.

2C) You don’t have time, nor old elec­tron­ics, and you can’t donate con­va­les­cent plas­ma?

Con­tribute finan­cial­ly to some of the help­ing orga­ni­za­tions. We can rec­om­mend, for instance, the pub­lic fundrais­er “Na vlně pomo­ci pro­ti bez­mo­ci!”, which is intend­ed for direct finan­cial help to peo­ple who lost mon­ey need­ed for pro­vid­ing basic neces­si­ties, due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and relat­ed gov­ern­ment mea­sures. The raised mon­ey will be used to direct­ly help peo­ple in need, in a crit­i­cal life sit­u­a­tion, chil­dren and moth­ers with chil­dren, the seri­ous­ly ill, the home­less, and aban­doned or elder­ly peo­ple who are in need in this excep­tion­al sit­u­a­tion.

Details of the fundrais­er, includ­ing infor­ma­tion on how to become a recip­i­ent of help, can be found on the web­site: www.charita.cz/jak-pomahame/doma/koronakrize.

Sup­port the fundrais­er by donat­ing to account 44665522/0800, VS 90619, or send a one-time or per­ma­nent DMS in the form: DMS CHARITAPOMOC 30, 60 or 90; DMS TRV CHARITAPOMOC 30, 60 or 90 to the num­ber 87 777.

3) By bak­ing and mak­ing snacks for staff and vol­un­teers in hos­pi­tals

Do you like to bake and want to be help­ful to staff and vol­un­teers in hos­pi­tals?

You can pre­pare a snack for the doc­tors! They will cer­tain­ly appre­ci­ate a savory or sweet snack. If you have a gar­den with fruit trees or veg­eta­bles, this is def­i­nite­ly the right time to share them ?.

You don’t have to wor­ry about being lim­it­ed by type or quan­ti­ty. Based on the infor­ma­tion you pro­vide, the coor­di­na­tor will esti­mate where your edi­ble gift will be best used – thanks to you, nurs­es, doc­tors, ambu­lance­men, vol­un­teers, or even admin­is­tra­tive staff in hos­pi­tals will have more ener­gy and strength in their dai­ly ben­e­fi­cial work.

Please be respon­si­ble and pay atten­tion to hygiene mea­sures when mak­ing snacks to pre­vent the spread of the dis­ease. You make snacks at your own expense.

If you would like to donate to Bohu­nice (Jihlavská 20, 625 00 Brno), chil­dren’s hos­pi­tal (Černopol­ní 9, Brno) or to the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal at Obil­ní trh (Obil­ní trh 11, Brno), call or write to the head of the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Cen­ter of the Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal Brno: Mgr. Václav Janištin, tel. 532 232 193, e‑mail: janistin.vaclav@fnbrno.cz.

Take a pho­to with your fin­ished cre­ation and send it to us via e‑mail: cizincijmk@jmk.cz.

Thank you to every­one who wants to help in any way! <3