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Children of Karviná will decide which not-for-profit organisation will be granted thirty thousand Czech Crowns

KARVINÁ (31st August 2010) – The OKD Mining Festival will offer an interesting “match“. Three not-for-profit organisations from Karviná will compete for a special thirty thousand crown grant from the OKD Foundation. Children will decide which of these three will win the grant.

The event will start at Masaryk Square on Saturday, 4th September at 1 p.m. „Children will collect the competition card at the Foundation Stand which will be stamped for every action they perform.

Everybody who earns ten stamps can come to the OKD Foundation Stand at Božena Němcová Park to collect the reward. And on top of that these children will get the right to vote for one of three organisations,“ explained the speaker of the OKD Foundation, Vladislav Sobol. The system of voting will be kept confidential till Saturday. „I can only disclose that in order that children would help some one else they must give up something,“ added Sobol.

Three not-for-profit organisations focused on the leisure activities of children in Karviná will compete for the children´s votes. They include “Sdružení maminek Sluníčko” (mums´ association Sluníčko), Klub mladých Filadelfia (Youngsters Club Filadelfia) and Akademie J. A. Komenského (Academy of J.A. Komenský).

Vladislav Sobol

Spokesman, OKD Foundation

telephone:  596 262 293
mobile:        725 595 417
e-mail:         vladislav.sobol@okd.cz

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Note for editors:

The OKD Foundation was established in 2008 and since then it has supported about 800 projects with the total amount of CZK 120 million. That makes it one of the biggest foundations in the Czech Republic, with a significant amount of funds (nearly eighty per cent) being allocated to high quality projects in North Moravia. The Foundation runs four schemes focused on support projects in the area of health and social affairs, education and leisure, environmental improvements and safeguarding of mining traditions.

The founder and main donor is the mining company – OKD The donors and partners also include New World Resources, OKK Koksovny, GreenGas and companies from AWT Group and RPG RE Group.