Tonight, a giant heart will shine at the National Theater in Prague Company News Pražská Drbna
As a sign of all good deeds, a giant heart in the colors of Giving Tuesday will shine in the National Theater building tonight. The lookout tower on Prague’s Petrin Hill will also light up. Tuesday, November 30, is generosity and good deeds around the world, and today, hundreds of millions of people around the world will do good. In the Czech Republic, Giving Tuesday has been initiated by the Association of Social Responsibility for six years now. Anyone can join on the most generous day of the year.
Anyone can get involved
Anyone and almost anything can join Giving Tuesday. Everyone can donate money, gifts in kind, but their free time or expertise. Interested parties can be inspired by website initiativeswhere they will find over two hundred challenges.
Candidates can support for example cancer patients, lonely seniors or construction of a shelter for handicapped animals. By purchase Beds give homeless people a night in the heat. But you can also contribute to the realization of the wedding mentally ill couple or k planting trees in Africa.
The National Theater as a symbol of patronage
“The fact that Czechs as a nation have nothing to be ashamed of is also proved by the fact that helping others is important for nine out of ten people, and this number is increasing from year to year. According to a survey by the Ipsos agency, 83 percent of Czechs have taken part in charity in the last year. I am extremely proud that the Czech heart is so big and embracing that it can empathize with others during this difficult time and stand by them when needed. “ says the founder and executive director of the Association of Social Responsibility Lucie Mádlová.
It is in honor of good deeds that some of Prague’s monuments will light up today after dark. In addition to the traditional lighting of the Petrin Lookout Tower, Praguers will see a giant heart in the National Theater building from five o’clock in the afternoon. “Symbolically, we want to celebrate the Czech patronage tradition and the birth of Czech philanthropy, which was behind the construction and later renovation of the National Theater after a large fire and was financed through a public collection,” explains the lighting of the theater Lucie Mádlová.