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Krka's volunteers once again showed they are good-hearted

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Krka employees donated blood, clothes, toys, foot wear, food, books and other necessities for adults and children as well as pet food. At the end, over 3 tonnes of necessities and 260 kg of pet food were collected. They kept the elderly company at 37 retirement homes and residents of eight occupational activity centres, special education schools, and other institutes and institutions and helped in two animal shelters.

1.361 Krka's employees participated in several activities this year and additionally employees of companies and representative offices abroad from the Russian Federation, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine, Germany, Turkmenistan, Spain and Serbia joined them for one day.

In the five years the Krka employees have donated 560 litres of blood as part of Krka's Week of Charity and Volunteering. This year 261 volunteers donated blood in Ljubljana, Novo mesto, Krško and Ljutomer. Among them there were 62 people who donated blood for the first time. In a week over 117 litres of the precious liquid was collected.

More than 15 tonnes of clothes and necessities was collected in the last five years for the Red Cross and Karitas in several locations across Slovenia (Novo mesto, Ljubljana, Krško, Ljutomer, Bršljin, Šentjernej and all the Terme Krka units).

Many volunteers in Ljubljana, Novo mesto and Ljutomer decided to help residents in old people's homes across Slovenia. In 37 homes in Slovenia they organised workshops for improving memory and various creative workshops, accompanied them on walks and helped them with carrying out every-day tasks or just talked with them as a nice word and squeeze of a hand make any person happy. In some retirement homes was organised an entertainment programme. The Krka Mixed Choir, the Krka Wind Orchestra and the ZaSUK Choir along with several Krka employees who played the instruments and sang.

Krka's volunteers visited eight occupational activity centres and some other institutes and hung out with the tenants, engaged in creative work, sung and helped them with every day tasks. Many Krka volunteers presented their hobbies like diving, painting and stand-up comedy. Krka's fire fighters performed an evacuation exercise for the pupils of the Dragotin Kette primary school in Novo mesto. For the residents of the Novo mesto occupational activity centre they organised a golf training course and a cooking workshop, and also visited the planetarium where they learnt about space.  

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