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Hi, hi squirt!
Today you're finally gonna see Bondy, it's gonna kick ***.
I don't know if you can manage it. I'll hold the door. You won't make it in.
- It's just past 3 o'clock and we're already drinking. - Why? Why!
Man, our lifestyle ain't worth ***.
It's all the same: school, home, go out, school, home, go out,
stuff our faces, get ***, smoke, drink coffee. That's all.
Sometimes you don't know which way to head.
Very old.
Now we're going to D, what the heck, it's not even 2 o'clock yet?
so let's have a cigarette and go inside.
People call me Kari. I've been coming to this center for 4 years.
I started coming here more or less thanks to friends
who told me about it, I heard they have certain activities here.
Like table football.
Pohy and Lennie.
There's Rosta under the table, right behind him is Trainy.
I got some good advice from this club,
like when I had certain problems, like with the law,
they were able to give me legal help, advice, what I should do and how
in this particular situation and I know,
I can always turn to somebody here and that they'll help me.
Now we'll see what a competent driver Sasha is.
The purpose of low-threshold clubs for children and teenagers
is mainly for them to have a place for their existence, for their adolescence,
because the pitfalls of everyday life are huge and everything is accelerating.
They're steering me on the right path, how to cope with it.
I have lots of friends who had drug problems.
I think I wasn't the only one here who had problems.
Break-ups and problems with girlfriends.
Start. Yeah. At the top, that's where it always starts. On the lips, of course.
These people trust us, come and say, something is bothering me, something I need.
I believe you, that is why I also say.
This club has a low threshold, which means it's not limited...
in any way: in terms of time, space, almost anyone who falls within the target group
can come here and it's a safe environment for them.
The main thing that attracts children here are the leisure time activities.
Table Football, pool, things they don't have at home
DJ turntables, thai boxing, breakdancing
and other kinds of workshops involving different things, like drawing...
Football, which is classic, Ping-pong, various board games ...
There's a well-equipped rehearsal room, further rental of sports equipment.
They can play various games. Much play Settlers of Catan
Jungle-speed, Ludo!, cards. They can play the fingerboard...
Excursions, camps, trips, visits to other facilities
and then, actually, the bulk of the work is counseling,
where, since we spend a lot of time with these kids and teenagers here,
we help them get through adolescence and move on to adulthood.
And at the library. There's a small wall to jump off,
a platform that you can manual over,
and a gap to jump over. You could say we've spent a lot of time here.
Drugs are banned. Such as cigarettes or marijuana.
All kinds of drugs ... No alkohol, etc.
Not here to steal, do not talk dirty. Although occasionally a word fly away ...
The moment someone breaks a rule
it gets dealt with. They settle it.
So if someone breaks a rule, for us it's more a chance
to talk to them about it, what led him to do it, whether that behavior is typical, whether he's used to it,
and in the next phase we discuss whether he'll have to leave that day and come back the next
or, if it's a more serious violation, whether he won't be allowed back to the club for a week, or even longer.
The pressure that... that ripples in from all sides,
from school, home, parents...
I don't have it so easy with my parents.
My parents at first were a bit afraid
because it was something different, but then they could just come in
and ask the social workers what actually goes on here.
For example, my mother's opinion was that it's just a drop-in center, for exchanging needles, for drug addicts.
It's not like that at all, and today she's happy. And she's even happier about the school I'm applying to
because it's closely connected. I'm applying for social pedagogy
and many social workers studied there, so they can help me out with that, too.
For my profession I must be a social worker,
or I should have the qualification of Worker in Social Services
plus the pedagogical minimum, or a pedagogical education.
But ultimately, with the help of Nadosah low-threshold center we found out
there's a grant that supports youth
in the form of, say, skateparks or any kind of sports facilities.
Thanks to this project, we got two hundred thousand crowns
to buy materials and pay the workmen who built the half-pipe.
Everyone's satisfied with the skatepark, as you can see.
Yes. Yes.
- Satisfied? - Yes. Yes. Yes.
Good. Considering all that money that was spent...
If this were a normal garage, I think
my life from age 14 would've looked completely different.
I would've been hanging around somewhere on the streets,
my life would've just looked totally different.
My attitude towards school would be totally differently.
Our goal is for these people to survive adolescence,
to not O.D. on drugs, not drink themselves to death, not catch any awful diseases
like hepatitis, or some contagious venereal disease.
If not for this club I probably wouldn't be sitting here right now.
I'd be somewhere in the housing estate with the kids.
I'd spend my free time differently.
Maybe better, maybe worse, most likely worse
because there would be nothing to do. They would think up some kind of trouble to get into.
Well, it's a club for young people...
I like that it's a kind of
waiting-room for adulthood, or something like that...
Low-threshold clubs for children and teenagers fill a gap in community contact with adolescents.
They are places that will understand you! www.streetwork.cz
This documentary would not have been possible without the financial support
from the Vodafone CZ Foundation Thank you
REALFILM PRODUCTION s.r.o produced by Czech Association Streetwork, o.s.
www.streetwork.cz © Czech Association Streetwork, o.s. 2009