Czechast brings you the first part of the story, or rather stories, of several amazing Czech women who help Czech communities abroad keep their language and cultural heritage alive.
Klára Moldová has been teaching at the T. G. Masaryk Czech School in Cicero, a suburb of Chicago, for more than a decade.
“We are raising a new Czech community, that will not only represent Czechia here in Chicago but might return to Czechia and bridge the two cultures. We are very excited to watch where it is going to go.”
Czech schools abroad rely on many volunteers who may not have an educational background but are eager to help. One such volunteer, Barbora Miklasová, lives in London. With background in microbiology, she came to London to work in scientific publishing. But the she found a new and very fulfilling passion:
“During the COVID pandemic I was at home looking at my life and I thought I could do something useful for the community.”
See the rest here.