Humanitarian projects

SLOVENIA

The Association for a Better World has performed free theatre performances for several years. The recipient organizations are: VDC Polž Maribor, ŠENT Maribor, Homes for the elderly – Home for the Elderly Danice Vogrinec unit Tezno and Pobrežje (Dom Danice Vogrinec Maribor), Home for the Elderly Sončni dom Maribor, Home for the Elderly Tezno (Dom starejših občanov Tezno), Home for the Elderly Ptuj (Dom upokojencev Ptuj); General Hospital Maribor ( for different age groups of children), General Hospital Celje (for different age groups of children), General Hospital Murska Sobota, Slovene Association Hospice – Association that supports terminally-ill people and their family members (mainly sponsored performances), and The Friends of Youth Association (semi-donated performances).

During the school-years 2006/7, 2007/8, and 2008/9 the Association supported children at the Youth Home Maribor (Mladinski dom Maribor), in the form of free instrument-playing lessons. The participator in this programme was our member - music teacher Amadeja Turnšek, who visited the Home and gave music lessons twice a week.

The Association has supported several different organizations working for the benefit of humanity, by donating our educative books. These recipient organizations have been: Mothers' Home Maribor (Materinski dom Maribor), Association ‘The Little Prince’ (Društvo Mali princ), Hospice Maribor (Association supporting terminally-ill people and their family members), Primary and Junior School Prežihov Voranc Maribor (Osnovna šola Prežihovega Voranca Maribor).

The Association has, for several years, cooperated and contributed to Elderly Peoples’ Homes within our city and nearby towns. In cooperation with the Inter-generational Association Drava (Medgeneracijsko društvo Drava), part of The Social Gerontology and Gerontogogics Association of Slovenia, our Association members Tatjana Juhart and Danica Gnilšek have formed self-help groups at the following Homes for the Elderly: Danice Vogrinec – Tabor, Tezno Maribor, Idila (semi-sponsored), and at the Slovenska Bistrica Library (semi sponsored). Our member Tatjana Juhart was nominated for The Volunteer of the Year Award at Home for the Elderly Tezno Maribor in 2006.

Our Association’s members offer several different forms of help and support in cooperation with individuals and organizations: learning support for two children from the Mothers' Home Maribor, clothing-collection, and the donating of home-baked products for the Shelter for the Homeless (Zavetišče za brezdomce Maribor), and Home- Help services for elderly citizens in their homes.

INDIA

In June 2009, members of the Association for a Better World donated 3000 Euros and offered it to two Tibetan monks Geshe Norsang and Monk Sangye. The monks destined this amount towards supporting former Tibetan political prisoners from Chinese jails, and for the construction of a new accommodation building for refugee monks, within the Ganden Monastery where Geshe Norsang works and lives.

In June 2009, the Association accomplished a project »Support for Indian Schools«. We invited cooperation from the Primary & Junior School for Special Needs Children OŠ Gustava Šiliha Maribor whose children and teachers contributed to a project concerning the children’ hand craft products, and they also collected symbolic donations. This project also involved some book publishers, and language schools. All the products, the collected school items, and the books for learning English were given to two Primary and Junior Schools in Southern India. On the same occasion, the Association gifted both the mentioned schools in India with educative theatre performances on human values. (Photo Gallery)

SERBIA

During 2005 and 2006, Members of the Association performed and financed educative projects at the following Serbian schools: Primary & Junior School OŠ 22. oktobra, Surčin, Beograd, Primary & Junior School OŠ Marko Orešković, Beograd, Primary & Junior School OŠ Boško Palkovljević Pinki Zemun, Primary & Junior School OŠ Dušan Jerković Ruma, Primary & Junior School OŠ Sele Jovanović Šabac, Primary & Junior School OŠ Nate Jeličić Šabac, Primary & Junior School OŠ Kralja Aleksandra I. Gornji Milanovac, Primary & Junior School OŠ Desanka Maksimović, Novi Sad, Primary & Junior School OŠ Vuk Karađič Čačak, and Primary & Junior School OŠ Miroslava Antić, Novi Sad. These educative workshops and theatre performances were performed over three or five day tours.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

In 2009 the Association financed and performed a project “Let’s give help to a neighbour!” accomplished in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Within this project we introduced, as the main topic, the importance of developing and instigating human values in education. During a three day tour we performed six theatrical performances and 30 workshops at the following listed schools: Primary & Junior Schools OŠ Musa Ćazim Ćatič, Zenica, Grammar School Gimnazija Zenica, First Primary &Junior School Prva osnovna škola Ilidža, Sarajevo, and the Second Primary & Junior School Druga osnovna škola Hrasnica, Sarajevo.

ENGLAND

The Association donated educative theatrical workshops on human values to the following schools in England: Court Farm Primary School, Warren Farm Primary School, and the High School, Birmingham.