20,000 children around world "adopted" by Czechs

Czechs have "distance-adopted" more than 20,000 children in some of the poorest regions of the world since the beginning of the project in 1993, says the Archdiocese Charity of Prague that introduced this kind of development assistance programme to the Czech Republic. People support individual children annually with about CZK 6000, or USD 300. This allows the "adoptive parents" to have control over the use of the money. Most children sponsored by Czechs live in India and Uganda.