'A child is more precious than gold, but more fragile than glass.'
– Jan Amos Komensky˝
Helping childen dreams
The civic association Audabiac was inspired by Radana and Jiri Wald, who wanted to help out the children in childrens institutions. Unable of course to adopt them all, they created the project 'Art for Freedom' inviting other families to participate, among them the Bedel de Bouzareingues family from Paris and the Voves family from Prague. Together they gave the project clear contours and brought it to life. In doing so they changed the lives of themselves, the children in the institutions, and the many other people who took part in this extensive project.
''For children to develop well, be healthy, self-confident, and useful to society, they must come to as little harm as possible. They should live in the kind of family surroundings that provide the necessary stimuli, appropriately varied and diverse, corresponding to their stage of development. These stimuli, together with the surrounding environment, should create for children a meaningful world permeated with love in the family and free of feelings of insecurity, anxiety or danger. In the harmonious surroundings of the family children should form their first and most important emotional bonds, and they should gain the important feeling that they mean something to others around them. This is a positive identity, the awareness of oneon´s own self and oneon´s own worth. For good development it is also necessary to respect the childrens need to have an open future, meaning being able to look forward to or expect something. All of these needs of children should be and are fulfilled when children live together with those to whom they belong and who belong to them. When any of these needs are not met, it´s bad,'' says children's doctor of mental health Professor Zdenek Matejcek.