Dear Reader,
The Csodalámpa (Wonderlamp) Foundation fulfills one wish of any life-threateningly ill child, aged between 3 and 18. The Foundation has been active since 2003 and has already fulfilled many hundreds of wishes all over Hungary. The actual number is shown on the right side of the homepage in the blue box.
In 2010 we were able to conjure smiles on the faces of 264 ill children, with the help of our many supporters.
Among the wishes there were many simple objects, like a puppet or a PC and quite a lot of special dreams as well, like a caressing dolphins or or meeting famous sportsmen, actors, and other celebrities.
We publish reports and photos about each wish-granting on our homepage. We must apologise, but because of capacity problems it has proved impossible to translate all the reports in English and German, but I hope that the photos tell the story most of the times.
As for the financial side, we operated primarily but not solely on private and company donations and free in kind services.
A Hungarian "speciality": the income tax payers could direct 1% of their payed tax to civil organisations, like we are. We have recieved and used for wish granting around 20 Million HUF of "1%-s" per year in the last 3 years, credited by the Hungarian tax authority to our account in November after each tax-year.
We have got important company and pivate grants that have allowed us to be able to fulfill some "expensive" wishes as well, like travels abroad for special wishes, that cannot be fulfilled in Hungary.
Our balance sheets for the last years has been audited - as part of their CSR activity - by the Hungarian office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. You can read these reports also trannslated in English here: Annual reports
As an innovation we introducced a few years ago an easier way to support our cause financially: by clicking on Donation with your bank-card (or on the orange box on the opening page Bankkártyás adományozás) you can donate directly to Csodalámpa through the Internet by simply using your bankcard.
The technical background is provided by the NIOK Foundation and the biggest Hungarian retail bank OTP Bank's secure and widely used Internet payment system.
As for our plans, with your support we carry on at a higher level of organization in order to give more joy to our "csodalámpa" children.
Thank you for supporting our cause.
July 20, 2011
Gabor PATZAUER
President, founder
