Do Good!
Though with a slight delay, we would like to tell you of the outcomes of the charitable action that Amber Games Co organised involving the 1100AD players last Christmas.
As you remember, we organised the Christmas Lottery in December and January and a portion of the proceeds had to go to the social aid centre for the mentally underprivileged children "Teika" in Riga.



It is thanks to your compassion and active involvement that we were able to collect EUR 878 in total.

We spent that money to buy the living essentials that the Administration of the ‘Teika’ Centre had advised us of beforehand. Those were mainly the clothes and footwear for children of different ages: winter clothes, warm footwear, sweaters, jackets, shirts and jeans pants. We organised to put together about 8 big bags stuffed with those clothes. On top of that, the personnel of Amber Games Co organised three boxes more as purely their own initiative.




The Trip

We went to the "Teika" Children’s Centre on 29 February 2012. During the trip, each of us pictured the meeting with the children and the children’s response in their own ways. It was exciting!
The ‘Teika’ CC Administration gave us a warm welcome. We were offered a tour of the place. First, however, we handed over the gifts so that they could get to the children as soon as possible. And then began our tour of the ‘Teika’.



For every one of us this was the first visit to such an institution and nobody stayed indifferent. What we saw aroused a wave of emotions: compassion, the drive to help and to be involved in the lives of these unfortunate children in some way. For instance, the children with special needs require the equally special and quite expensive mattresses. Sometimes, some children literally have nothing to put on because all their clothes are in the laundry; they have to miss their school therefore. Unfortunately, the Government cannot allocate enough funds for these children’s proper upkeep. The Administration of the ‘Teika’ says that they often also get aid from the sponsors who remain nameless more frequently than not.

We decided not to stop at our first visit to the ‘Teika’ CC; a portion of the money collected during the Easter Campaign will be sent to the children out there, too.

On behalf of the children, the administration of the ‘Teika’ CC and on our own we would like to thank cordially everyone who has taken part in this act of charity. True, we did not change the world with this one but, at the same time, we – all together – helped the children each one of them being a world in itself.
Please, do not stop doing good; let us not be indifferent and let us never tire of doing good.

Here’s a little photo coverage of our trip to the “Teika” CC on 29 February 2012.