IWC LJUBLJANA 1998-2008

During the past ten years Inner Wheel club of Ljubljana has been active in the framework of real friendship, understanding and respect, assisting and helping those in need, mostly young children, teenagers and families.

The members of our club have been particularly proud of their activities aimed at helping the Bosnian children in a refugee camp in Kozina. The project was met with a wide response in Slovenia. The members of our club have become godmothers to young children and teenagers from the Youth Care Centre Malči Belič in Ljubljana. We have been helping them with their school work, visiting them often, talking to them as well as giving them monthly some pocket money. The club members have helped financially a number of young talents to continue their studies, and every year in the framework of the project of the newspaper Nedeljski Dnevnik “A Sparkle in children’s eyes”, financial assistance has been provided for the families and children. Inner Wheel club Ljubljana has been cooperating with the City Museum of Ljubljana and with its donations made possible the purchase of significant objects of historic value for the permanent collection of the City Museum of our home town.

THE PROJECTS REALISED BY THE IWC LJUBLJANA IN THE PAST TEN YEARS

  • financial assistance for providing a prenatal Ultrasound device for the Ljubljana Maternity Hospital
  • financial assistance to a family with eight young children
  • help (presents, toys, layettes for babies) to the Refugee camp in Kozina in cooperation with the Government Office for Immigration and Refugees
  • children from the kindergarten Ana Ziherl in Ljubljana, after receiving story books as a present from us, made nice drawings which, with a little help of a designer, “changed” into beautiful picture post cards. The cards were sold and the money was used for the project »Children for Children«. Part of the money raised was given to a family with seven children.
  • a successful fashion show; the money raised went to a family with a disabled child
  • A piano donated to our club by Mr Andrej Šegš was given to a family with three talented children
  • financial donation to a family with five children for a purchase of children’s room furniture
  • financial assistance to a student of solo singing
  • cooperation with the Youth Care Centre Malči Belič in Ljubljana, our members have been godmothers to several young children and teenagers
  • to whom we bring Christmas presents
  • each year we are buying the Christmas cards they make themselves
  • birthday parties for our godchildren and their friends were organised in Mc Donald’s in Ljubljana
  • we have been assisting and helping our godchildren with schoolwork
  • a computer was donated to them
  • therapies have been organised for them and carried out by a young doctor and her two trained dogs
  • we joined the children and the tutors for the 75th anniversary of Youth Care Centre Malči Belič
  • cooperation with the journalist in charge of the activies of the journal Nedeljski Dnevnik “A Sparkle in children’ eyes”
  • financial assistance to a family for their school children, purchase of a stove for another family
  • financial assistance in rearranging an apartment for a family with a disabled child
  • financial help to a family for mending the roof
  • urgent financial assistance to a few families for purchase of provisions.
  • sale of clothing in a bazaar in the Festival Hall in Bled in Christmas time
  • Mc Donald’s donated coupons for free meals to parents coming from other places to visit their sick children in hospitalS in Ljubljana
  • donation of a laser jet printer to the Paediatric clinic in Ljubljana
  • IWC Ljubljana president 2004/2005 succeeded in obtaining a donation of 200,000, 00 SIT sponsored by the firm Talum and the financial assistance was given to the family of a 9 year old disabled boy. Thanks to all the club members who have managed to get sponsors' donations as well as to those members who have themselves made donations to the club funds and consequently made our club's financial assistance to the needy easier and abundant.
  • financial donation to a school in Spodnja Šiška for rearrangement of the sports grounds
  • donation to the City Museum of Ljubljana at the occasion of the opening of the permanent exhibition “The Faces of Ljubljana” for the production of a wooden model of the famous Kosler manor house, a significant baroque building in Ljubljana
  • financial assistance to make their return to their home easier to a family struck by the floods
  • donation to a special Social Care Institution Prizma Ponikve for purchase of a vehicle for the disabled persons living in the units
  • cooperation with Rotaract club Ljubljana in the framework of their humanitarian activities
  • purchase of a washing machine and coupons for the purchase of provisions for a young single mother and her daughter.