Foundation Fund Kapka naděje (Drop of Hope)

Support the work of the Foundation Fund Kapka naděje (Drop of Hope) in order to give children a higher chance for recovery.

How can you help?

In the registration desk there will be a box for financial donations – the collected money will be sent to the account of this important and very helpful Foundation Fund.

Ill children from the pediatric haematology and oncology department at Motol Faculty Hospital made painting and other hand made works which will be exhibited in the foyer of the meeting rooms.

Thank you very much for your help.

12th ISOPP PRAGUE 2010 Organizers

The Foundation Fund Kapka naděje for helping ill children especially with disorders of blood formation, cancer and for children whose ailment requires bone marrow transplantation "If our activity can save the life of just one single child, then it is worth it."

"I want to devote the idea and mission of the Foundation Fund Kapka naděje to commemoration of my daughter Klárka."

The Foundation Fund Kapka naděje was established in September 2000 on the basis of my life experience and at the same time as a reaction to the disconsolate conditions at the children's transplantation unit of the pediatric haematology and oncology department at Motol Faculty Hospital. The Foundation Fund made a point of continuous support to this unique department in the Czech Republic by it is activity - haematology department whose part the unit is. Children with disorders of blood formation, especially with leukemia and cancer, are treated at the Paediatrie Clinic for haematology and oncology at present time. The Foundation Fund Kapka naděje soon shaped it self as a socially respected, highly valued organisation supported by the public as well as by professional community. Fair, peaceable forms of the fund´s promotion as well as of the whole issue of haematology and oncology enabled the Fund to gain a number of partners for long-term cooperation beneficial for both parties. The management audit and financial transparency are a matter of fact and a necessary guarantee for the public.
The activity of the Fund is broad, it includes various activities and it is final effect is always aimed at a group of ill children needing help. Not only the purchase of laboratory or diagnostic devices or equipment improving the comfort of patients but also other improvements of the psychosocial environment and arrangement of psychosocial care in a broader scope belong to the current forms of the Foundation Funds activity.

Vendula Auš Svobodová, President of the Board of Directors

ACTIVITIES

Help with funding of the new transplantation unit construction

Thanks to the social and media pressure, which the Foundation Fund Kapka naděje invoked in autumn 2000, it was possible to get a government grant for the construction of a new bone marrow transplantation centre in the Motol Faculty Hospital. The Foundation Fund Kapka naděje co-participated in the funding of its creation and at the same time financially supported it is equipment with instruments and operation.

Support of scientifíc activities

Improvement of treatment results is conditioned by the existence of own scientific base at the haematology department and also by taking part in international research projects and grant tasks. The Foundation Fund Kapka naděje tries to support these activities. At present time it finances the work of a data manager at the pediatric haematology and oncology departments. Since 2004 Kapka naděje supports an important project "Umbilical Blood Bank".

Umbilical Blood Bank of the Czech Republic Institute of haematology and blood transfusion Cooperating stations: HLA centre, IKEM, Prague.

Umbilical Blood Bank of the Czech Republic supports a new way of haemopoietic tissue transplantation and keeps in touch with other similar banks all over the world. It has two parts: unrelated and related for case that there is a patient within the closest family of the donor who needs transplantation of haemoplastic tissue.

Czech register of bone marrow donors

Processing centres:
Tissue bank of the Faculty Hospital Brno-Bohunice
Tissue head office of the ÚHKT Karlovo náměstí Praha

Maternity hospitals:
Benešov, Brandýs nad Labem - Stará Boleslav, Čáslav, Česká Lípa, Č. Budějovice, Č. Krumlov, Hradec Králové, Jablonec nad Nisou, Kolín, Liberec, Litoměřice, Mělník, Mladá Boleslav, Most, Neratovice, Nymburk, Praha, Příbram, Slaný, Strakonice, Ústí nad Labem.

The cooperation was extended by collection of umbilical blood from maternity hospitals on the whole territory of Moravia:
Ostrava, Frýdek-Místek, Šternberk, Kyjov, Brno to the Tissue bank of the Faculty Hospital Brno, Opava, Zlín.

Help with improvement of diagnostic procedures and treatment methods

Diagnostics and treatment of childhood leukaemia belong to the most progressively developing areas of medicine. New findings in the area of genetics, immunology, supportive and hormonal treatment and transplantology contribute to significantly higher success of treatment. To keep the European or more precisely world standard of the pediatric transplantation unit and the haematology department in Motol Hospital, it is a condition to continuously equip this workplace by most modern instrumentation and laboratory equipment. Purchase of the necessary equipment is one of the priorities of the Foundation Funds activity.

Partner hospitals

Motol Faculty Hospital in Prague
Uherskohradišťská nemocnice, a.s.
Nemocnice Karlovy Vary spol. s.r.o.
Regional Hospital in Liberec
Krajská nemocnice T. Bati a.s. in Zlín
Institute of social care for disabled youth Kociánka in Brno
Institute of haematology and blood transfusion Prague
Faculty Hospital Ostrava
Faculty Hospital Olomouc
Slezská nemocnice Opava
Masarykova nemocnice Ústí nad Labem
Hospital Jihlava

Help in the area of psychosocial care

Treatment of pediatrie patients with disorders of blood formation is a long-term matter. Long-term stays in hospitals exelude children from the society, spare-time activities and limit their contact with friends. Due to these facts the Foundation Fund Kapka naděje tries to be active also in the area of psychosocial care in the following way:

Improvement of the overall environment of in-patient, ambulatory and other premises in the departments
Organisation of special events for children (Christmas day, Easter and St. Nicholas' day presents etc.)
Visits of sports stars, artists and other celebrities to the departments
Support of participation of cured patients in reconvalescent stays
Salary coverage of psychosocial staff at the haematology department

More information can be found on www.kapkanadeje.cz