Maksim Dolgopolov, a student of the bachelor´s degree programme in Physiotherapy at Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences in Lithuania is now on a two-month Erasmus + clinical internship at FHSS USB. Practical training takes place at the faculty´s clinical workplaces in the Peat Spa Třeboň, in the Rehabilitation and Regeneration Centre in Borovany and in the Physiotherapy Centre of the Faculty. He is attended by teachers who work there and other students who are currently doing their clinical practice. The Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia has developed cooperation with universities in the Baltic countries in previous years. Our foreign partners have been newly offered two-month internships in the field of Physiotherapy for their exchange students. Since the academic year 2018/2019, these internships are reciprocal. The following clinical departments of our faculty were interested in receiving foreign interns: Bertiny lázně, Rehabilitation and Regeneration Center in Borovany and the Physiotherapy Centre of the FHSS USB. “During the internships of foreign students, the faculty students, as well as the professional staff of these facilities have a chance to practice English. Many thanks to all those involved in the Maksima professional programme and their helpfulness,” said Ing. Jana Ředinová from the International Office of the FHSS USB.

České Budějovice - A major international conference of the European Transcultural Nursing Association (ETNA) was held from Wednesday 19th to Saturday 22nd June 2019 by the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia (FHSS USB) in České Budějovice. It was the sixth year of the event, which is held every two years, this time for the first time in the Czech Republic. Over the past few days, 118 experts from 19 countries have met at our faculty to discuss various issues related to teaching future nurses and other health professionals.

The only member of ETNA in the Czech Republic is prof. Valérie Tóthová, vice-dean of FHSS USB for science and research, who was the one who made this conference take place at our faculty. On Friday afternoon, in her final speech, she thanked all the participants for coming and for bringing with them very nice presentations. She added an accurate balance sheet: experts presented 60 presentations and 21 posters during the conference. The program was very busy at the professional, connected entertainment and social level. In her final performance, the president of ETNA, prof. Irena Papadopoulos, stressed all this. From Wednesday to Saturday, the guests visited Český Krumlov, the Budvar brewery, Hluboká and Třeboň within the connected entertainment programme. On Saturday morning they also went on an excursion to the ARPIDA centre for rehabilitation of people with disabilities in České Budějovice. The visit was a great experience for the foreign experts.

The ETNA association brings together nursing professionals, students, nurses and other nursing and related specialists. The current 6th year has dealt with nursing curriculum and focused on the cultural competences of nurses. In the globalized world of the present day, it is increasingly important to be able to provide all patients with care that respects their cultural habits, needs and expectations. The aim of the conference was to compare how curricula are set in different countries, and how students acquire the knowledge and skills needed to provide culturally competent care. It was a valuable opportunity to exchange experience not only with sharing theoretical knowledge, but also with the subsequent application of this knowledge in practice: how students and graduates in practice are able to work with people from different cultures.

At the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia, a major international conference, the European Transcultural Nursing Association (ETNA), began on Wednesday and will continue until Saturday 22 June. It is a very prestigious event that is organized every two years. It is the first time it is being held in the Czech Republic; the conference language is English. This year's nursing curriculum focuses on the cultural competences of nurses – in the current globalized world, it is increasingly important to be able to provide all patients with care in compliance with their cultural habits, needs, and expectations.

The program is rich, and experts from almost 20 countries will present their papers in the halls of the FHSS USB Vltava/Uran. On Wednesday morning, Catherine Gilbert gave a lecture entitled Building a Culturally Competent Curriculum: If Not Now, When? Later the guests went to Český Krumlov. The opening ceremony took place in the evening at the Hotel Budweis with speeches by the Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch, the Rector of the University of South Bohemia Tomáš Machula, the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of South Bohemia Ivana Chloubová, the President of the Association of ETNA Irena Papadopoulos, and the Deputy Mayor of České Budějovice Viktor Vojtko. They welcomed them to the faculty, the university, the city and the South Bohemian region, and wished them days full of inspiring and pleasant discussions and meetings. At the end of the evening, all were delighted by the performance of the FHSS USB choir.

“In Czech hospitals, of course, we do not only have Czech patients, but also patients from different European countries and the world, and we need to get used to it. Health professionals need to adapt to this: they must be educated, and have the knowledge, experience and skills to treat patients from different countries and cultural backgrounds. I am glad that we will discuss this at the conference and eventually, it will benefit both patients and health professionals,” said the minister of health Adam Vojtěch. The rector of the University of South Bohemia Tomáš Machula stressed that he is very proud of our faculty and appreciates that we are organizing such a great international conference. He said, “With all modesty, I must say that you are in the right place because our FHSS is really the best one… We receive excellent feedback from hospitals not only in this region. Since last year, the faculty also has a new institutional accreditation in the field of nursing, which is a huge success.”

ETNA brings together nursing professionals, students, nurses, and other nursing and related specialists. Its only member from the Czech Republic is professor Valérie Tóthová, who made this event happen at our faculty. The theme is also very inspiring for us: the aim of the conference is to compare how curricula are set in different countries, and how students acquire the knowledge and skills needed to provide culturally competent care.

The Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia will hold a large international conference, the European Transcultural Nursing Association (ETNA), which is a very prestigious event organized every two years. It brings together nursing professionals, students, nurses, and other nursing and related specialists. It is the first time this conference will take place in the Czech Republic and the venue is the lecture halls of the FHSS Vltava/Uran. Adam Vojtěch, the minister of health, will launch a rich program with lectures by experts from nearly 20 countries around the world at the Budweis hotel on Wednesday evening. The organizers expect more than one hundred participants who will present their contributions in English. This year's event will deal with the nursing curriculum and it will focus on the cultural competences of nurses. The point is to provide all patients with care that is respectful to their cultural habits, needs, and expectations.

Prof. Mark Anthony Small, J.D., Ph.D., was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the ceremonial session of the Academic Council of the University of South Bohemia which was held on Thursday 13, 2019, at the ceremonial hall of the České Budějovice town hall.

Prof. Mark A. Small began as a professor at the Southern Illinois University in 1990. After that he became a director of the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina, and since 1999 he has been working at the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life in Clemson University (he became the director in 2017).

During his scientific and pedagogical work he has authored 11 monographs or chapters in monographs, and 51 papers in professional magazines. He has been the head of a section at a conference nineteen times, he has participated in 31 international lectures as “an invited speaker”, 62 lectures at national symposiums in the U.S.A, and he has actively participated in a conference 52 times.

Prof. Mark Small is a lawyer and a psychologist - this interconnection and focus on social sciences (in particular social work) present a multi-professional scope of the perception of social sciences. These are the key disciplines that expand social work at the University of South Bohemia in the fields of study that build a coordinated rehabilitation using “an evidence based” approach. A scientific, pedagogical and especially human approach have affected academic workers at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia over the last 17 years, in particular concerning participation, provision and protection of children's rights within the Convention on the Rights of the Child or community social work. 

Prof. Mark Small's cooperation is a key cooperation and it has brought significant results.  Those deserving a particular mention are as follows:

The Faculty of Health and Social Sciences became a key institution of Child Watch International. In 2006 a doctoral study programme with the title “International Ph.D. Program in Family and Community Studies” was successfully accredited. In 2008 an international programme with the title “Graduate Certificate in International Family and Community Studies” was successfully accredited. 

Prof. Mark Small is also concerned with the results from pedagogical and publication activities in cooperation with the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. 

You can read about the other successful results of cooperation and upcoming projects on the websites of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. 

When Prof. Small learned he was to be awarded an honorary doctorate he was very surprised. His first reaction was that he did not deserve it. “I feel very honoured, it is a great pleasure for me. I am proud and grateful – especially as I was proposed by people from the faculty that I have known for 20 years. During that period of time I have visited České Budějovice twenty-two times, often with students or my colleagues in a social capacity. I have monitored the changes in this field of study. It is for us very inspirational that the Czech Republic really struggles with respect to this. For example, we can learn much concerning the complex operation of the centre for the handicapped ‘Arpida’, which I have already shown to many of our students,” he stated.

He arrived in South Bohemia with his wife, and over the four days they visited Český Krumlov and Prague. On Wednesday they were guests at the concert of the FHSS USB Choir that devoted one of the songs in English to them that evening. Prof. Small considers the journeys for his colleagues from the FHSS USB as journeys for friends because they have found a common language over twenty years and they understand each others opinions on social topics.”Thanks to this, it is easier for us to create international projects - we still have enough plans concerning our further cooperation,” he stated.

To the ceremony:

After the ceremonial parade of the representatives of the University of South Bohemin in České Budějovice, a proposal to appoint Mark Anthony Small, J.D., Ph.D. a doctor honoris causa was read. According to the appropriate provisions, nothing obstructed the ceremony. The Rector of the University of South Bohemia, Doc. Tomáš Machula awarded Prof. Mark A. Small an honorary doctorate. Then he gave pleasure to all those present with his gripping speech. 

This was followed by a musical show of the České Budějovice vocal choir ‘Dyškanti’, led by Doc. Martin Horyna, Ph.D. of our Faculty of Education. The musical show concluded the whole ceremony to enthusiastic applause.

We asked:

How are you feeling after being awarded an honorary title?

Prof. Mark Small: ”I'm happy, enthusiastic and very honoured. It is a great honour for me.”

How did you like the ceremony, including the historical music etc?

Prof. Mark Small: “The beauty of the Czech Republic lies in that compared to America it has such a history, tradition and rituals. For me it was an extraordinary experience to be a part of it.”

It is the 34^th honorary doctorate in the history of the University of South Bohemia, and the second on a proposal of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. In 2006 a doctor won it (Prof. MUDR. Vladimír Krčméry, DrSc., from Trnavská University in Slovak Trnava).

Two teachers from the Faculty of Law of Chiang Mai University in Thailand are visiting our faculty from Monday: Dr. Usanee Aimsiranun, the Vice-Dean for International Relations, and Dr. Khanuengnit Khaosaeng. Both have come thanks to the Erasmus + international credit mobility project. Yesterday, during the lectures, they met our students and today they´ve been received by the Dean of FHSS USB Mgr. Ivana Chloubová, Ph.D., together with the Vice-Dean for International Relations prof. Dr.rer.nat. Friedo Zölzer, DSc.

Two lectures in English were held on Monday: Usanee Aimsiranun talked about ASEAN Community Law and Dr. Khanuengnit Khaosaeng discussed Copyright Law and the Internet. Both themes were chosen specifically to address Czech students - ASEAN - the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in which Thailand is also involved, resembles the Czech Republic's membership in the European Union. The theme of copyright is particularly interesting for young people, because they are used to downloading photos, music and movies free of charge from the Internet without ever thinking whether it is fair to their creators.

“The cooperation of our faculties has lasted more than ten years, and we see the potential for continuing this cooperation. In the area of student exchange, we are ready to help your students, for example, in organizing practice,” said Dr. Usanee Aimsiranun. Both colleagues liked the facilities of the university and the faculty and its functioning, they also appreciated the feeling of a safe environment and our hospitality. They confirmed that such an exchange of experience is a great asset. "It was a unique opportunity to broaden the knowledge of legal subjects offered by FHSS USB, this time presented in an international context," said the Vice-Dean for study and social affairs and director of the Department of Humanities in Helping Professions Mgr. Vlastimila Ptáčníková, Ph.D.

The collaboration between the two faculties has been going on for more than a decade: Chiang Mai University in Thailand has been the destination for our social-sector students who went there on three-month internships which were full of unusual experiences - for example, the functioning of an orphanage or a prison. "We would like to build on this cooperation and restore the tradition of these internships," said Ing. Jana Ředinová from the Office for Foreign Relations of FHSS USB.

The Faculty of Health Social Sciences USB hosted 49 foreign students and 9 foreign academic workers from seven European countries from Monday April 1 until Saturday April 5. In particular, these workers came from Germany, Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Belgium, Slovakia and the Netherlands. The International Week of Social Work was held, this time with the topic “Social work with clients in the home environment”. This event was organised by the Institute of Social and Special-paedagogical Sciences FHSS USB. “Concerning foreign academic workers and students, the International Week of Social Work has been perceived very positively - in particular with respect to workshops and excursions. The FHSS students have actively participated not only in the preparation, but also in the successful course of the event. Hereby I would like to thank them again for their time and energy," stated PhDr. Lenka Motlová (on behalf of the organising team) who also thanked the whole team of her colleagues from the FHSS USB.

Prof. Mark Small from Clemson University in the U.S.A. who has been cooperating with our faculty for many years, also arrived in České Budějovice for the event. His lecture opened the whole event on Monday and then the week full of workshops, lectures and excursions on the given topic followed. The guests visited Domácí hospic sv. Veroniky (home hospice of St.Veronika), Fokus, Charity care service, Ledax and the Centre of early care in České Budějovice, which are clinic workplaces of the FHSS USB. They were joined by the students of bachelor, master and doctoral studies of the FHSS USB. For them meeting foreign colleagues was a good opportunity to improve their language skills as well as to compare the forms of social care in our country and abroad. It was also a valuable chance for Czech students to increase their self-confidence so that they can also travel abroad to gain experience. The list of students whom we would like to thank for their active participation is in the annex to this report.

The International Week of Social Work takes place regularly each year at the universities that belong to the network SocNet98 which is formed by a total 14 of universities providing education in social work. The FHSS USB has belonged to this network from its very beginning -– in 2018 it was the 20-year anniversary of its foundation. It is always held in parallel by four universities involved in the network, and they always focus on one particular subject of the social sphere. In 2019 the International Week of Social Work was concurrently held at, for example, these universities: University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten (Austria) with the title ‘Diversity Matters, Meeting the challenges plurality and differences in/for social work’; PXL University College of Applied Sciences and Arts (Belgium) with the title ‘Social Work in the context of well-being, leisure and tourism’. The FHSS USM organised the International Week in 2013.

Within this week students and pedagogues from the whole of Europe meet, and one of its advantage is the informal atmosphere. The goals of this event include establishing contacts and

working friendships among the participants. Then the International Week of Social Work is a very useful opportunity to discuss important topics that concern each person in all of the participating countries, in order to mutually professionally inspire and support and exchange experience in problem solving. The opportunity to participate in the International Week of Social Work is very prestigious for the FHSS USB because similar meetings in the other countries are held at the same time.

The next International University Week with be held from April 20 until April 24 (2020) in these places: Denmark: University College Lillebaelt, Odense; the Netherlands: Hanzehogeschool Groningen; Belgium: UCLL – University College Leuven- Limburg, Leuven and Germany: University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Emden. In the autumn, competitions will be opened for possible persons concerned from the courses RPB, SP and RPN.

In November the University of South Bohemia hosted 27 participants at the 6th International Week. These included members of foreign departments of universities and coordinators of the Erasmus programme. On Tuesday, ten of them - including colleagues from Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and Turkey - came to the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia. They were welcomed by the Vice-Dean for International Relations, doc. RNDr. Miroslav Šíp, DrSc.Whilst here,they learned about the intention and relevance of our Faculty. Practical training was also shown:the activity and equipment of the Centreof Prevention of Civilization Diseases and the Centre of Physiotherapy. The guests gained information fromIng. Ondřej Macho, Mgr. Lenka Šedová, Ph.D., and Mgr. Jana Jarošová. The Vice-Dean Šíp concluded,“This meeting was focused on members of foreign departments of universities. They were divided into groups after the opening ceremony at the University of South Bohemia and went to the particular faculties. I appreciate that their interest in our Faculty was higher than average. It was an opportunity for them to get a clear idea about a school which they cooperate with and where they send their students to. Such meetings enable them to give the applicants for research fellowships full information, which makes these meetings very worthwhile.”

For the next four years, a woman could again be at the head of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia (where almost 2,100 students are educated). On November 21, 2018, the members of the Academic Senate of the Faculty elected Mgr. Ivana Chloubová, Ph.D. to the post of the Dean for the term of office from February 2, 2019 to January 31, 2023. She had no rival candidates in the election and won 13 votes of the total 13 submitted. If the Rector Tomáš Machula appoints her, 48–year-old Ivana Chloubová will take the place of the present Dean prof. PhD Valérie Tóthová, Ph.D., who led the Faculty for eight years (this represents two terms of office, the longest possible term for a Dean) at the beginning of February 2019.  

Ivana Chloubová has been the Vice-Dean for Study and Social Affairs of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia for eight years, so she knows the environment very well. If she becomes the Dean, she wants to maintain and further develop the present direction of the Faculty. She likes the prospective combination of health, social and security branches that this school offers the students. In her opinion, combining interconnection theory with practical training is very worthwhile, and also relates to a great supply of graduates into the labour market. She stressed:“We can be proud of preparing qualified professionals. The evidence of this is the much higher demand for our graduates; some employers really want only the graduates of our Faculty.”

After the school-leaving exam at Secondary Nursing School, Ivana Chloubová was admitted to the Neurological Department of the Hospitalin České Budějovice, where she worked as a nurse. She did a part-time course in Education – Nursing at the Facuty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Then she started to teach professional subjects at the Secondary Nursing School and Higher NursingSchool in České Budějovice. Since 2004 she has been working at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia.

South Bohemian television had broadcasted a report on the visit of Nepali lecturers at the FHSS USB. This week, two lecturers who work at Dhulikhel Hospital and also at Kathmandu University arrived in the South Bohemian Region. Sulekha Shrestha represents the field of nursing, and Bimika Khadgi (in photography with the students) specializes in physiotherapy. The cooperation agreement between our Faculty and the University in Kathmandu was signed three years ago. "We send to Nepal annually about two nursing students for practical placement in field of Nursing in Dhulikhel hospital, and from the next year on our physiotherapy students will have the opportunity to take 2 months internship in Dhulikhel as well. " the Vice-Dean for Foreign Relations ZSF JU, assoc. prof. Miroslav Šíp. He added that it is also possible to extend cooperation with Nepal to Tribhuvan University in the field of social work. Nepalese colleagues arrived just for one week in order to give lectures to nursing and physiotherapy students. Our students benefit not only from information about medical care in Nepal, but also from having lectures in English.

These days, within the framework of Erasmus + Teacher Mobility, the Physiotherapist Dr. Roberta Bikuliciene from the Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences. At the Institute of Physiotherapy and Selected Medical Disciplines, she has led several workshops with physiotherapy students of 2^nd and 3^rd  year. Her specialties are yoga and Tai-Chi techniques, which she practiced with students in her kinesiotherapy approaches. She has very much appreciated the active attitude of our students and their excellent knowledge of English. Together with the guarantor of study programme Physiotherapy, PhDr. Marek Zeman, Ph.D., she had also visited the clinical workplaces in the Třeboň Salt Baths. The cooperation of both universities has deepened.

At the beginning of May, the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences (University of South Bohemia) hosted three representatives from Georgia Southern University (USA): Dr. Keith Belcher – a specialist in Medical Laboratory Science, Dr. Catherine Gilbert – a School of Nursing director, and Dr. James L. Karnes – an associate professor in Physiotherapy. During the five day program, they were acquainted not only with the curricula of the relevant study programs offered by the Faculty, but also with a system of providing professional practices, and possibilities of joint research. At the same time, they also had an opportunity to visit selected clinical workplaces of the Faculty, where they were able to see how the organizations cooperate with the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. During the joint discussions, various possibilities for student and teacher exchanges were discussed, as well as research project opportunities.

David Norman Ellis, expert in special pedagogy, Alabama, USA, became a part of our team due to the Fulbright award which he received for winter semester 2017/2018. He will teach students and at the same time offers his knowledge and abilities to all colleagues from the faculty, with whom he has become acquainted beforehand and belongs to his area of interest. Especially thanks to long-time cooperation with prof. Kovářová he received Fulbright's scholarship for the second time: first in 2002 in Slovakia and now in the Czech Republic. Their cooperation through the Fulbright program started at a time when the professor Kovařova worked in Košice. Košice and Mobile (the city on the coast of Alabama) are partner cities. In České Budějovice, Dr. Ellis also became a member of the editorial board of Contact magazine, and on October 12 he will attend the conference on Inclusive Disability Education - examples of good practice.

David Ellis is from Alabama in the USA. He grew up in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama. His father was an experimental psychologist who studied persons with intellectual disabilities in the 1950s through 1970s.

He has served children and adults with disabilities for more than 40 years. He was employed as a counselor in a residential program for children with behavioral disorders and as a teacher at a special school for children and adults with developmental disabilities. He has B.S. and M.A. degrees in Special Education from the University of Alabama and received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in research in developmental disabilities.

Dr. Ellis is recently retired from the University of South Alabama as a Professor of Special Education. During his time at the university he taught a wide variety of classes including the nature and needs of children with developmental disabilities and applied behavior analysis. He has received two Fulbright Awards for faculty exchanges. The first in 2002 in Slovak Republic and now in Czech Republic.

His research interests have revolved around behavioral strategies, programs of inclusion, and advocacy. He has provided service on rights protection and behavioral review committees for community agencies serving students with disabilities.

KONTAKT, the professional and scientific journal of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, was evaluated by an independent international board Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board and filed into the world bibliographical and citation database Scopus. 

KONTAKT – a journal for nursing and social science in health and disease was filed in 1999, and is issued quarterly. The articles are published in two sections – Nursing and Social Science and Health. Czech and English versions of the journal have been published with the same content. The Czech version is printed and fully available in the online version of the journal. The English version is published by the Elsevier company and is available in the Science Direct database, recently it has also been in the Scopus database. In 2015 the Council for Research, Development and Innovation also registered Kontakt in the List of reviewed non-impact periodicals issued in the Czech Republic. The journal was citated in the Bibliographiamedica Čechoslovaca (BMČ) and is part of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). 

A traineeship at Nepal Káthmándú University in Dhulikhel, which is about 30 kilometres from the centre of Káthmándú, will be offered to two students who are on the nursing study program this year. The university is establishing a co-operation involving its medical study programmes.  The Vice Dean of Foreign Affairs, FHSS USB doc. RNDR. Miroslav Šíp, DrSc., visited Nepal with a representative of the Department of Social Work, Mgr. Dagmar Dvořáčková, Ph.D., in August and September. He said: “We had an opportunity to visit the university hospital in Dhulikhel, and we can confirm that it is very well equipped considering local conditions. It is approaching European standards.”

The journey was realised following an FHSS (USB) development plan about cooperating with foreign countries, and was approved last year. Unfortunately, due to a devastating earthquake in Nepal this spring, our representative’s stay was altered.  

The main purpose of the trip was to visit two universities. The first was Káthmándú University in Dhulikhel, which has already signed a memorandum agreeing to cooperate with the FHSS (USB). This week they confirmed that they will admit two of our students. The second university is Tribhuvan University, which is situated in the  centre of Káthmándú. This school has shown an interest in co-operating with our faculty, but the first internship cannot be realised until next year. It will be open to students of both of the social study programmes taught at the FHSS (USB).

According to doc. Šíp, students who stay there will experience the famous nature, sights and spiritual wealth,of the Himalayas. It will be a great school of life for students and will broaden their perspectives. The opportunity to work in a private local teaching hospital will also be very useful for them. The faculty will announce a competition offering two applicants a place as soon as possible. One important prerequisite is of course knowledge of English.

In Káthmándú, the FHSS (USB) representatives were received by the Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic, Mr Vishnu Kumar Agarwal, who has helped by using his contacts at both the university and the mediating offices for studying abroad. The originally planned co-operation with a non-profit organization that we hope will provide an internship for social work students remains at a theoretical level. This will be an internship in the southeast of Nepal, and could not be visited personally by doc. Šíp and Dr. Dvořáčková due to time and organizational restraints. However, we are exploring the possibility of a professional internship in those regions so we can send students of the faculty there. There has already been some success in the fact that valuable contact has been established, which can be deepened in the future. Dr. Dvořáčková concluded: “Nepal is among the poorest countries in the world. People here are very friendly, modest and glad of attention and help. Our visit to Nepal did not last long, but thanks to the people I met there it has been engraved in my heart forever, and I will be glad to return. More than anywhere else, a person will understand a sense of life there, and I believe that if a person has a gift that can help people, this gift takes on a whole new dimension there.”