"We are very pleased that with the financial support of the Vítkovice Steel Foundation in the amount of 50 000 CZK we were able to purchase a special chair/chair, which we use for functional vision testing of young children with visual and combined disabilities. The chair can be well positioned, rotated, changed in height, put into a half-sitting position... We have also equipped our centre with a seat that is used for sitting at events for families, counsellors also sometimes use them directly in families where they work with children, for example on the carpet. We have also purchased a new cover for the child's seat in the room where initial meetings with families take place, as well as other aids such as tactile pessaries and simulation glasses to help parents zoom in on their child's visual impairment. We really appreciate this support and thank you!"

"My name is Jakub Kremer and the support of the VÍTKOVICE STEEL Foundation helps me to pay for assistance services and thus I can indulge in more leisure activities. For this I am very grateful, as I am a very active young man. Unfortunately, without these funds I would have to stay at home, which is not good for me psychologically. I am very grateful to the Foundation and very much appreciate the financial support I have received."

"Dear members of the VÍTKOVICE STEEL Foundation, I would like to thank you for your support of Týnka and her family. Thanks to your help, Týnka is able to regularly visit the education centre where we work together to develop her skills and deepen those she has already acquired. Týnka's educational program focuses on improving communication, comprehension, academic skills, leisure and independence. We continue to work on expanding her active and passive vocabulary."

"I would like to say thank you very much on behalf of many children and seniors whom I was able to help in the meetings I realized thanks to the VÍTKOVICE STEEL Foundation. The donation of 50 000 CZK I received helped me to develop my unique project Omalovánky and "put a smile on many faces". I am dedicated to raising awareness and talking to people about the fact that even though my life is DIFFERENT - I was born with a very rare growth disorder, Ellis van Creveld Syndrome, that I am not DIFFERENT! The Foundation has allowed me to meet so many people and through the 3D plaster colouring books I make with the help of my son and husband, I have had amazing moments of joy, acceptance and touching with my husband who is helping me with the project."

“Thanks to VÍTKOVICE STEEL endowment fund we could purchase ROOMER portable overhead lift designed for lifting and transporting immobile persons between rooms (bedroom, toilet, central bathroom) and during certain movements (such as transfer from bed to wheelchair and back). This substantially improved the quality of social service rendered to our clients. The work with this transport and lifting system requires far less physical effort than the work with classical lifts for immobile persons.”

"The VÍTKOVICE STEEL Endowment Fund, as part of the People from Steel Helping programme, supported the Private Primary Special School for Pupils with Multiple Disabilities with CZK 49,876. With this amount of money, the school will build a new playground on the school grounds for the pupils to spend their free time actively. It is a set of a tower with a slide and a rope. Thanks to the "Little House" the children will strengthen and improve their motor coordination through play. We are all very much looking forward to our "Little House" and we thank the VÍTKOVICE STEEL Foundation and the VÍTKOVICE STEEL employees who made the project possible. All VÍTKOVICE STEEL employees are helping."

“A donation from VÍTKOVICE STEEL endowment fund under the People from Steel Help programme enabled us to purchase a polikarp construction set in the value of CZK 34,000 for our nursery school located at 23 Erbenova Street in Ostrava-Vítkovice. The acquired construction set will be used by us for a number of both controlled and spontaneous activities. Now we use different parts of it in physical training exercises. Various assemblies can be made of it including a small slide supporting the development of gross motor skills and physical dexterity of children. Children improve their sense of logic and spatial orientation during spontaneous games using the construction set.”

“CZK 41,062 donated from VÍTKOVICE STEEL endowment fund under the People from Steel Help programme enabled us to implement our “Building with Bořek“ project. We purchased construction sets for children from Bohumín nursery and elementary schools for the obtained money. The primary purpose was to compare the technical skills of children from the different Bohumín schools and to have fun in one afternoon.”

"Thanks to the VÍTKOVICE STEEL Endowment Fund we could carry out the project 'We Learn to Discover the World', which was prepared and implemented to improve the quality of pre-school education in a speech therapy class for children with special educational needs. The aim of this project is to ensure interactive tuition for children, which is seen as one of the latest methods of education and offers children a more entertaining and less stereotypical form of gaining information."

"Thanks to the financial support of the VÍTKOVICE STEEL Endowment Fund - People of Steel Help we managed to buy special aids for physiotherapy and multi-sensory stimulation exercise of disabled children. The special aids develop the senses and facilitate communication. Optical light fibres activate sensory perceptions and the reactions of children with infant cerebral palsy.“

"Thanks to the VÍTKOVICE STEEL Endowment Fund the hospital in Třinec bought an Acutronic Fabian Evolution machine for non-invasive respiration of newborns. Its function consists of the generation of a managed slight overpressure in the respiratory tract. The machine is important for overcoming the period of interrupted adaptation of the respiratory tract and stabilisation of respiratory tract," explained senior consultant Rucki.“

The VÍTKOVICE STEEL Endowment Fund helped us expand the offer of sports, relaxation and physiotherapy aids for families looking after children with infant cerebral palsy.“

"As part of the project People of Steel, the VÍTKOVICE STEEL Endowment Fund is helping support the ADRA Volunteer Centre. Thanks to financing we bought IT equipment to support the training of new volunteers who help the sick during difficult life situations and to support an improvement in communication between the centre and the volunteers.“