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The Great Finale
The Great Finale is the basis for all the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity's projects. Sponsored by big companies it is a huge, 'multi-layers' action and the source of funds -eventually spent by the Foundation on medical equipment for Public Hospitals in Poland. The Finale is one day long, nation-wide money gathering on the first Sunday of the year. Volunteers previously registered in the Foundation collect money on the streets of their hometowns as well as they organize all kind of creative rallies; parties, concerts, auctions, shows, you name it! The society contributes concern, and the artists free performances. All the revenues are turned over to The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. Such attitude allows us to achieve one of the most important goals which is creating the spirit of community, friendship, and unity. All day long-live-television broadcast (recently also internet broadcast at www.wosp.org.pl) are integral elements of the Great Finale. Thanks to active participation of the media hundreds of thousand of people get involved in The Great Finale, which makes our action one of the most powerful and effective charities in the world.
We are proud of our volunteers. They are honest, reliable, and fully dedicated to our ideas. We appreciate their great spirit and we thank them for their help and hope that they've been giving us for over a decade. This year, on January 14, we will be holding a jubilee XV Final, which is absolutely unearthly! When all these years backwards we started this charity and run first Final, we didn’t even dare dreaming of doing it so many times. Back in 1993, in much worst conditions than now, we collected staggering sum of 2 mln bucks! And despite calling this fund-drive the Great Final it turned to be just the beginning of a great adventure called the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. Then the time went by and we did next 14 Finals, and worked very hard to prove that we are trustworthy and reliable organization. Today, we’re proud to say that our efforts resulted in providing all Polish children with easy access to sophisticated medical devices in hospitals across the country. Looking from the perspective of 14 years, this period was the time of the improvement of the quality of health services for children with special health care needs in . Today, pediatric healthcare is comparable to this available in other European countries, and sometimes even better. This was possible with the input of 65 million USD, which GOCC spent on medical equipment. We’re very happy that as NGO we could support the government in such effective way. It is absolutely stunning and just unearthly! That’s why we feel that the jubilee XV Final is out of space! On Another reason why we chose it is the fact that the results of our last year’s work are very beneficial and well received by the public opinion. The program ‘CPR for Schools’ which we launched in April became a smashing success and set an example of how to plan for this type of initiatives on national scale. We certainly want to sustain everything what we’ve achieved last year and we’re already full of new ideas on how to improve our so far projects. One of the most stimulating facts of the year 2007, is the first Final organized in On |