For 18 years, Světluška has been helping severely visually impaired children, adults and seniors to live independent and meaningful lives through its long-term project. Světluška and its traditional activities, based on face-to-face meetings, were also affected by the pandemic year of 2020. However, it used the unfavourable situation as a new opportunity to connect with donors online, which led to new projects such as Café in the Dark: Online and the Podcast in the Dark, which, thanks to its large listenership, earned a continuation in 2021.
Even in a time that was not conducive to meeting, Světluška experienced extraordinary favour from donors. A big thank you therefore goes to all those who did not put helping others on the back burner and persistently helped, even virtually. It is also thanks to your support that for eighteen years Světluška has been able to build a system of quality care for the visually impaired through organisations which, thanks to the foundation's support, can implement their projects focused on, for example, education, job creation, the development of new technologies, or guide and assistance services. In Světluška's grant procedures, thanks to the kind help of donors and corporate partners, a total of 217 applications from individuals and 151 applications from non-profit organisations were supported in 2020, amounting to a total of 21.4 million crowns.
