Homeless teambuilding or, 24 hours on the street: Pragulic presents new projects












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            * Homeless teambuilding or, 24 hours on the street: Pragulic presents new projects
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            To help the homeless rediscover their lost self-confidence, give them work and some income

            give others an unusual experience: these are the goals of the Pragulic [ URL "http://pragu
            social organisation, founded last year by three students of the CU Faculty of Humanities [
            fhs.cuni.cz/"] . Initially offering unconventional guided tours of Prague by homeless peop

            now adding further projects to its programme. People can now experience for themselves an 
            street or take part in ‘homeless teambuilding’.
            The massive interest, from foreign as well as Czech tourists, in tours through the streets

            people who have lived there has led to Pragulic recruiting five new guides to its team. “T
            expanded to include not only new people, but also new topics,” says Tereza Jurečková, one 

            of the project.
            Tereza founded Pragulic together with Ondřej Klügl and Katarína Chalupková (who was this y
            by Jan Trybenekr, now a graduate of the Prague University of Economics) from the CU Depart

            Society Studies, who wanted to start a project that would be of benefit to society. Their 
            won the international Social Impact Award and the received base capital to start the organ
            Every new Pragulic guide brings with them their own particular life story and a new tour r

            can take a walk round Malá Strana with Ondra, who introduces them to the magic of street m
            ride in a Prague rail bus with Robert, whose passion is railways, rather than music. Pragu
            Zuzka, tells people about the hell of being addicted to hard drugs. Pepa shows participant

            through the eyes of the homeless, and Radka does tours for the whole family, including chi
            After a successful first year, Pragulic is now also starting to offer other programmes alo
            Prague. One of these is the opportunity to experience for yourself 24 hours on the street,

            truly understand homelessness. “At the start you get clothes like those typically worn by 
            then you have to leave your mobile phones and other items behind and venture out onto the 
            of our guides,” says Jan Trybenekr.

            Another new project is ‘homeless teambuilding’, which is mainly aimed at managers and empl
            corporations. Participants take part in a ‘homeless pentathlon’, during which they learn t
            marketing, sales, logistics, finance and human resources management, naturally from the po

            people living on the street.
            Aimed at the younger generation is the ‘Prague Homeless Challenge’, the object of which is
            participants how to survive on the street, and give them a day-long insight into the lives

            people through unconventional activities and experiences.
            All programmes offered by Pragulic are subject to payment. Part of the proceeds go towards
            of the organisation itself, and part goes straight to the homeless people who work for Pra

            ‘homeless’ is not, however, totally accurate, as most of the guides, while having lived on
            some time, have the worst behind them and have a roof over their heads, at the very least 
            similar.).

            This idea of CU students also appealed to Austrian investor, and founder of a private foun
            Turnauer, who provided the Pragulic project with financial support, and particularly appre
            that it “combines addressing a pressing social problem with entrepreneurial tools that all

            financially independent.” Achieving financial self-sufficiency is one of the goals of the 
            and it precisely this that the students are learning at the Social Responsibility Departme
            Department of Civil Society Studies.