Bc. Marcela Šipošová, DiS.

To me, the dragonfly is a symbol of change, light and understanding dreams. In the social field, I started as a volunteer in Klokánek, a worker in social services in a home for mentally disabled clients, working with autistic people, with families in excluded locations, accompanying worker for foster families, families with handicapped children and later in the field of domestic violence. From the beginning many years ago, I started with a course as a worker in social services, then I graduated from a higher vocational school with a social and legal focus. Later, I graduated from the college of social work and took a course in assisted contacts. For a long time I have been educating myself and preparing for the dragonfly to fly and help the needy people who ask for help themselves. I myself have also gone through health challenges, so I know how difficult it is to return to a full-fledged life. Dragonfly on a thread is my long-standing dream come true, with which I want to help really vulnerable people. My many years of practice and experience in social services is a guarantee of a humane approach.

A dragonfly on a thread emerges slowly. The reason is care and responsibility in preparations, I want to connect human destinies and help people who deserve it. Behind the creation of Vážka and the fulfillment of my dreams are my family and friends, who support me endlessly and I am grateful to them. I am focusing on Louny and its surroundings and I want to bring to the region what is missing here

Founder and president of the association, director and head of social services SAS and NZDM Vážka na niti

Kamila Sainerová, DiS.

My path to the door of the Dragonfly on a Thread was winding. For years I worked in a corporation, yet I was no stranger to the social sphere. Although it may not have occurred to me for many years, my choice to devote myself to social services was subconsciously instilled in me already in childhood, thanks to my mother, who spent most of her life working in social services. The first impulse to reevaluate my work and life path was when we as a family began to care for a sick member of the household. I started volunteering, took a course as a worker in social services and started studying at the Higher Vocational School in the field of social work. Before I finish my studies, I work in the field and gain the necessary experience in the social field, with families in excluded locations, with families with handicapped children and in the field of domestic violence. I'm still working on my professional development, I'm currently going through an assisted dating and domestic violence course.

Family counselor, Head of SAS Najáda Louny Vážka na niti z.s

Mgr. Věra Malesáková

My entire professional life has been accompanied by children, I first started as a kindergarten teacher, where I began to focus on the problems that young children have and I was looking for ways to help them cope with the start, in a sometimes so complex world. After studying special pedagogy, other studies followed, such as social pedagogy, penitentiary care and psychotherapeutic training. And so, I got to work not only in a children's home, but also to work with young people who leave the prison gates. I became more and more aware of how necessary help is already at the beginning, and how much a "bad start" affects our lives, especially for children in NRP. My long and essentially lifelong study of trauma and its effect on bodily experience began. During my professional journey, I met a lot of people who are looking for ways to do their work a little differently, with more humility and humanity, that was my path to Dragonfly on a Thread.

Psychological and therapeutic counselor, volunteer in Vážka na niti z.s., 

Bc. Marcela Kafková DiS.

I always knew that I would like to help people. And since my motto is ACTIONS, NOT WORDS, I first graduated from a higher vocational school, majoring in social work, and then UJEP, majoring in social pedagogy. I have been working in social services since 2005. I mainly focus on crisis intervention, both in the form of telephone and face to face. For the last 5 years, I have been working with children at risk (CAN syndrome) and families at risk of various pathological phenomena, especially domestic violence. I try to show clients a different face of OSPOD, where we are not just: "a social worker who takes children". yourself, and above all for your children. Working with people is very demanding, you sometimes feel that whatever you do, it is not enough or that it does not matter. But then you see a satisfied mother who managed to go through the "hell of domestic violence". if they start laughing again and have a nice childhood, then it makes sense! And even if it was just one family. This work must be done with the heart, and Vážka has exactly such people. I really appreciate the opportunity to be a part of it.

Expert advisor and volunteer at Vážka na niti z.s.

JuDr. Anna Beková

If I were 18 years old again and had to choose my career path, this time I would not hesitate and put more emphasis on humanity, compassion, help and on the person as an individual. However, since I did not have the experience after high school that I have now, I chose to study law school. Soon after graduation, however, I discovered that paragraphs and stacks of papers did not appeal to me, so I began to devote myself to coaching and mediation - out-of-court dispute resolution, which is a personal negotiation in which a mutually acceptable agreement is sought. However, I devote most of my time to social work with vulnerable children and their families. It never ceases to fascinate me, how often a little thing can help to bring about big changes for the better in the family and mutual relationships. I am grateful that I receive trust from families, they allow me to enter their lives and help them take small steps towards a better and fulfilled future.

Registered mediator and coach, legal advisor, volunteer in Vážka na niti z.s.,

Mgr. Lenka Princlíková

I admire people who are not self-centered and help others. There aren't many of them. And there will be fewer and fewer of them, because a good deed is more and more often punished after it is deserved. And for this reason, I value and admire those who have not given up and are trying to do good deeds. So let's appreciate everyone who lends a helping hand, warms with a kind word and helps in difficult times. I am a teacher who has met children, parents who were desperate to find help to solve problems. It wasn't easy at all. And so I'm glad that VÁZKA NA NITI was created, which does not hesitate to help and care for others. I will also strive for this and I hope that my many years of experience and knowledge in the field will contribute to this.

"The hardest thing in a person's life is to raise a child well..."

Counselor for family and school, volunteer in Vážka na niti z.s.

Monika Pischová

I am a nurse with many years of experience in social work. services mainly with children with physical and mental disabilities, I also worked in the children's department, and also as a nurse in an educational institution. I have been working as a psychiatric nurse in the field for 2 years now, helping children and adults find a smile in their soul and understand this complicated world. I perform psychosocial rehabilitation, which includes supportive conversations, emotional ventilation, breathing exercises, conversations about wishes and feelings..... and about everything that bothers people.

Psychosocial support, volunteer in Vážka na niti z.s.

David Heřmanský

I have always admired social service workers. People who voluntarily help everyone who needs it, people who have their hearts on the palm of their hands. It is with great humility and gratitude that I approach the function of coordinator, which I can perform in Vážka. In Vážka na niti, I deal with logistics, marketing and promotion, coordination of financial resources, but also the organization of courses or the implementation of creative creation.

SAS and NZDM social service coordinator, IT support and member of the Vážka na niti z.s.

Miroslav Zimmermann

As a potter, I learned to approach my work with humility and patience. I also work with this approach in Vážka na niti. Helping people is not an obligation, but the mission and the people who work or cooperate in Vážka have their hearts in the right place, and that is what I value most.

Technical worker, lecturer and member of the association Vážka na niti z.s.

Pavel Vinš

Already during my studies at a higher vocational school (field of social work), I quickly understood during my internships that my place would not be in the office, but right in the center of the action. Among people. And it didn't matter whether between children, adults or seniors. Everything has meaning, everything has a great benefit and everything is necessary. Unfortunately, I was not gifted with the gift of seeing my work as a mission, I succumbed to the lure of boringly pragmatic capitalism and the market economy and left the social services before I could be of any use. All the more I admire those who have the gift, I'm not afraid to say self-sacrifice. And all the more I want to try to pay off the rest I owe myself. If only by offering my experience from the world of business and marketing.

I believe in the goodness of man, and the people from Vážka confirm to me that my faith is not surrounded by naivety. For that alone, they deserve my big thanks and promise of full support

Volunteer in the association Vážka na niti z.s., media and promotion specialist