About Organizer
When the Czechs needed a helping hand from the world, we got one. Now that we are better off we feel it is our moral responsibility to help others.
Jaromír Štětina
PIN Co-founder
People in Need (PIN) is a Czech organization that provides relief aid and development assistance, while working to defend human rights and democratic freedom. At home, People in Need runs social integration programs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and carries out informative and educational activities. PIN is one of the largest organizations of its kind in post-communist Europe, and has administered projects in forty-eight countries over the past eighteen years.
What is PIN today began in 1992 when dissidents and leaders of the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution teamed up with conflict journalists to form the Epicentrum Foundation, renamed People in Need and partnered with Czech Public Service Television in 1994. Since its inception, PIN has aimed to deliver relief aid and development assistance while raising public knowledge of the countries in which PIN works. Over seventeen years, PIN has developed many public awareness campaigns aimed at providing independent and unbiased information for journalists, opinion makers and the general public. Through campaigns, information projects, and media supplements, PIN believes it is possible to support an informed and empowered civil society both at home and abroad.
People in Need believes that cooperation is essential in order to meaningfully contribute to offering solutions to the world’s problems. PIN is an active partner in Alliance 2015, the Czech Forum for Development Cooperation (FoRS), the European Union Monitoring Center (EUMC), Eurostep and CONCORD. PIN is also an implementing partner with ECHO, Europe Aid, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, IOM and many other bodies, as well as being registered with USAID as an international private voluntary organization. PIN is a legally registered Czech non-profit, non-governmental organization with its main office at Šafaříkova 24, Prague 2, Czech Republic.
People in Need
Šafaříkova 635/24
120 00 Prague 2
Czech Republic
phone: +420 226 200 400
e-mail: mail@clovekvtisni.cz