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What is the “Let’s save lives” system about?
“Let’s save lives” is a system of regular monthly financial aid designated to save life of a conceived child and to help his/her mother.
Objective of the system
The system is based on provision of a monthly financial contribution to help a pregnant woman in an extreme situation, disconcerted by unplanned and unwanted pregnancy. The aim is to save the unborn child, to help the mother avoid an artificial abortion and protect her from its consequences. Women, who underwent abortion, are likely to suffer from the post-abortion syndrome during their whole lives. Thus, the donor of the project „Let´s save lives“, saves two lives by his contribution - the life of the conceived child who gets a chance to be born and the life of his/her mother who would suffer both physically and emotionally after abortion. The donor system works on a basis of “adoption” of a pregnant woman and her conceived child.
Members of the system
Donor
A person who decides to help protect the conceived life on regular bases or by a lump-sum.
Founder and coordinator of the system
The founder and coordinator is the civil association Forum of Life, who is also the warrantor of transparency, effectiveness and functionality of the system. The task of the coordinator is - above all - to communicate with the donor, the provider of help and the beneficiary. The coordinator communicates also with potential co-workers (gynecologists, pediatricians, other doctors of medicine, social workers, advisors, priests etc.), who may inform their clients about this option of help. The Forum of Life funds all the additional cost related to the project exclusively from its own resources.
Help providers
Organisations offering practical help to women in a form of accommodation, provision of meals, and social and health services package. Help providers facilitate and control practical usage of financial donations. Every organization aligning itself with the values stated in the Ethical code of this project may become the help provider.
Beneficiaries
Women and their children. Women, who decide to accept practical help in our facilities would be eligible for enrollment into the “Let’s save lives” system. The maximum duration of help reception is 1 year. In exceptional cases, the warrantor may decide to prolong the provision of help.
Warrantor
Warrantor guarantees the expert level of the project.
Donor system pillars
Transparency
The donor may check the concrete case for which his/her money is used. General information is regularly published on the website www.zachranmezivoty.sk and all additional details are available upon the request.
Warranty
All financial resources flow directly from the donor to the beneficiary. This way, the system prevents any misuse of donations. All the money received are distributed equally between women enrolled in the system. We guarantee that the whole amount of donation is transferred to the woman in crisis and her child through the facility providing the help. All costs connected with the management and administration of the system are covered by the civil association Forum of Life. Total cash flow of the system is presented on the website www.zachranmezivoty.sk at least once a year.
Solidarity
If the beneficiary receives greater amount of financial resources than is the sum of her needs, the system distributes the exceeding resources equally between other beneficiaries.
Operation mode
Allocation of donations
Each donor may choose his preferred beneficiary. The system will stream the financial help to the preferred beneficiary. Provided a beneficiary has received enough donations from other donors, the donation will be used for other (not preferred) beneficiary. Each beneficiary will receive the help according to her needs. The amount of help will be set by the help provider. As long as there are enough financial resources in the system, the help will be paid off in due amount. Shall there be a month when the system does not receive the needed amount of resources, each beneficiary would be assigned an aliquot part. Shall there be only 50% of the resources in the given month, the beneficiary would be given only 50% of the financial aid. Shall there be enough resources and some even remain unspent, this rest will be used in the next month. Shall there be three subsequent months with abundant resources, new beneficiaries are admitted into the system.
If the donor does not choose a concrete beneficiary, the system will randomly choose one to whom the resources would be assigned. There is no legal claim for the financial aid.
Means of sending the financial contribution
The donor, after the registration at www.zachranmezivoty.sk, gets his own Personal number and a password, which allow him to enter his Personal account. The personal number serves as a variable symbol to identify the donor. After logging in with the personal number, the donor can choose the beneficiary.
The donor may sent his contributions by:
- a standing order
- a direct deposit to the donor system bank account
- an individual payment orders
- a postal order (PPP) type U
By setting a payment order or filling the PPP it is necessary to state the donors Personal number as the variable symbol. Contribution without the variable symbol will be distributed to beneficiaries but will be registered as anonymous in the “Let’s save lives” donor system. Contributions from donors are shown on the website www.zachranmezivoty.sk with the delay caused by the duration of interbank transfers or the lenght of processing of the PPP until the assignment of contributions to the account of the donor system. It is possible to contribute by single contributions only. The amount of contributions from the donor may vary at individual months. Regular monthly contributions may be interrupted, ended or restarted at any point of time.
Selection of beneficiaries
Beneficiaries are chosen by help providers. Women themselves may ask for help as well. In such case the coordinator connects the applicant with the help provider.
Beneficiaries have their Personal number and anonymous name under which they are presented in the system. All personal data of a beneficiary are saved in a special file in the office of the help provider, who secures the needed anonymity for the reasons of safety.
Ethical code of the project Let’s save lives
- The project’s aim is to develop a donor system of financial aid able to provide regular aid to unborn children and their mothers in dire vital need.
- The Forum of Life and all partner organizations esteem and respect life of every person from conception until natural death and support family as an optimal place for birth and development of human life. Discrimination of unborn children is inacceptable.
- The Forum of Life and all partner organizations care for the health of pregnant women by the provision of help, especially by protecting the woman from induced abortion.
- The project can support only such forms of help to unborn children and their mothers which directly or indirectly save lives of concrete unborn children.
- We maintain complete directness. The donor knows the beneficiary’s story to whom he provides the money. The beneficiary knows the name of her donor only with his/her consent.
- We protect the privacy of the beneficiary and the donor.
- We maintain complete transparency of the project. The donor may check on a web site the usage of the granted funds any time.
- Selection of beneficiaries of financial aid is secured so no form of misuse may occur.
- We regularly publish the economic results in a transparent and publicly accessible way.
- All operation and additional costs connected with maintaining of the project are covered by other resources.
In Bratislava 6th November 2007
Forms of help
1st phase of the project
Only regular clients of help providers may be beneficiaries. The help providers are able to provide complex services.
2nd phase of the project
The beneficiaries don’t need to be regular clients of the help providers. Also other forms of facilities (i.e. advisory services) may become help providers.
Forms of help for women in crisis
Anonymous childbirth
Staying at an asylum center before and 6 weeks after the birth (accommodation, meal provided).
Hmotná núdza
- Staying at an asylum center before the birth and also after the birth, until the child is one year old
- Newborn baby kit
- Coverage of medical care costs
- Monthly allowance during the maternity leave outside the asylum house
- Yearly allowance at the school enrollment
- Annual contribution when entering a school
Social need
- Expert care – consultations with psychologist, psychiatrist, lawyer, social worker
- Staying at an asylum center (accommodation, meal provided) before the birth and after it until the child is one year old
- Costs connected with therapeutic programs and meetings of self-supporting groups
- Newborn baby kit
- Coverage of costs for medical care
- Monthly allowance during the maternity leave outside the asylum house
- Yearly allowance at the school enrollment
Unplanned baby
- Providing of expert counselling, accompanying during the pregnancy and after the birth in accordance with all needs and requirements
Delivering of a handicapped baby
- Expert help of a psychologist
- Expert help of a social worker
- Newborn baby kit
- Daily help of a field social worker
- Yearly allowance
Post-abortion syndrome
- Ambulant help - psychologist, psychiatrist and self-supporting groups
- Residential help – plus accommodation
System founder
The founder - Forum of life
Forum of Life is a civil association which groups in 47 organisations, experts and personalities with aim to build up a society which respect a human life in all its forms - from the moment of conception until the natural death, and supports the family as an optimal place for birth and development of a human life. The associations dedicates itself to prevention, advocation and concrete help - mainly to pregnant women in need. It was established in 2001 as an informal group and in 2003 it was transformed into a civil association.
Project partners
Let’s save lives project started in tie up with a campaign Právo na život (Right to live) iniciated by Pastor bonus, o. z. Pastor bonus adressed the Forum of Life and they agreed to realise this project together. The Forum of Life, considering its long experience and credit, has taken over the warranty over this project as the project founder.