CARP & HARP Youth Service Project in Prague, The Czech Republic

C ARP CZ had the great heart and exchange one teabag for homeless people. They were very happy opportunity to organize a service something nice which will bring joy to and amazed by our efforts and asked a project together with young 2nd someone. The internal purpose of the lot about our origin. We helped them to Gen from HARP and STF. For everyone whole event was to experience bring the things to their Centre, shared it was a very precious experience. We Principles in action. and exchanged contacts for future created two group of 14 people each. The fundraising part was not always cooperation. It was a very nice We discussed all the necessary easy, but in general we met very nice encounter. instructions and went out for our people who gave us a lot of useful and After that we had snack together and adventure. also unexpected things. In one returned to HQ. All of us felt energized The main purpose and mission of the Vietnamese shop the owner gave us a and inspired to do more such things. project was to fundraise clothes, food bag full of instant noodle soups. Some We immediately discuss about the next or anything useful for homeless people of them were very inspired to meet us possibilities of similar future event. or people in need and bring them to a and get to know what we are doing. One extra bonus we have got from this place near the train station where the Through this we also explored more the project was the bonding atmosphere NGO “Food not bombs” regularly neighbourhood of our place. In the end among us in the teams connecting serves food for homeless people. Many we collected four big bags of clothes different cultures and generations. We people in need gather there. In and one big bag of food. felt really closer to each other at the addition, our mission was to ask After putting all the things together, we end of the day. people, when was the last time they felt moved to the train station place, where joy, tell them uplifting words from the we met people from the NGO and some