Economic recovery and motivation to play sports. Prague 18 and Prague 1 will distribute millions of crowns among their inhabitants
“Now I’m going to buy a ticket to the pool,” says Pavel at Aquacentrum Letňany and pulls out a mobile phone with a discount code. Thanks to the Corrency project, they will pay only half of the entrance fee. “So 80 crowns and I have 420 crowns left in that budget. And hooray, I can go swimming, “he rejoices.
“We really want to stir up the inhabitants of Letňany and help them go to practice, they have the opportunity to try different sports, for example they can’t help people financially,” explains the mayor of Prague 18 Zdeněk Kučera from the YES movement. “In the second part, we want people to be able to afford something in the service, such as massages or a pharmacy.”
Project for the inhabitants of Prague 18 and Prague 1
So far, about 900 people and 20 establishments are involved in the project. The town hall has set aside a total of one million crowns for two thousand people, so the locals still have the opportunity to register. The project is already running in Prague 1, where almost 900 people are also registered, the city district has set aside two million crowns for it. However, it focuses mainly on shops, as councilor Karel Grabein Procházka from the YES movement specifies: “I have developed such a model of civic amenities, these are mostly establishments that you can’t do without in your daily life – dry cleaning, bakery, hairdressing.”
Among the 150 establishments, there is also a tattoo parlor, a climbing wall, a restaurant, a gallery or a photo studio. The goal in Prague 1 is to support the local economy after the covid and highlight local shops in a depopulating center. The project in the first and eighteenth districts will run in May and June. she wants to evaluate the town hall and then see if it was beneficial.
For more information, visit the website Prague 1 AND Prague 18.