After two years hiatus, we are once again looking forward to meeting you at the Good Bazaar of the Trenčín Foundation. On the 17th December on the Peace Square in Trenčín, we will welcome two celebrities, the moderator Alena Heribanová and actor Ady Hajdu. If you visit the Christmas Fair on this day, come and have a bit of fun with our friends, the mime Vlado Kulíšek, and clown Aďo Ohrádka, and why not buy a thing or two for your loved ones.

The Trenčín Foundation has been turning to kind donors for eighteen years with its pre-Christmas project “Open Your Heart, Donate a Book“, and supplying their gifts in the form of a children´s book to little readers from families in temporary or long-term social need.

Throughout the year, artists act out theatrical performances for children with different kinds of disadvantage that are separated from their close-ones and placed in institutions of social and health care in Slovakia. Together with the clowns, the children dream, discover the contents of the „Magic Suitcase“, get to know the “Strong Max“, “Goldilocks“ and the “Rabitt Lajko“, visit the “Supermarket“ and the “Fairytale Ball“.

Our project ‘Open Your Heart, Donate a Book‘ reminded us again that children like books. This goes for Slovak kids as well as those from Ukraine. In cooperation with our partners, we are securing printing of books in Ukrainian language. You can download the books yourselves, print it and deliver it to the collection spots for Ukraine. If you don´t have the capacity to print the book, you can send a financial contribution to the Trenčín Foundation and we will use these funds to print, cover and distribute the children´s books.

Before our clowns appear at the Day with Dr. Clown event in June on the Štúr Square in Trenčín, they will meet children from Ukraine and attempt to make them smile. They will travel to places, where their acting and long term performing experience might help to ease tension, bring solace and a bit of an escape from the reality.

The anniversary of the Foundation is fast approaching. The real „date of birth“ is 8th December, we wanted to celebrate it in November, and in the end, we will meet in June. This is the times that our anniversary has fallen on. Disordered and chaotic. We are one year wiser and I am convinced that with a bit of patience, we can make it as a country, people and Foundation.