June 15th, 2011 Part1 @Prague, Chez Republic
Dasha with her one-month baby girl in her arm welcomed me, when I visited a Chez street magazine, Novy Proster.
The birth of this magazine was a dozen year ago, December 13th, 1999, with a help and an advice from INSP, “Z!” in Amsterdam, “Straat Nieuws” in Utrecht, and “Flaszter” in Hungary.
Most of the media people and social workers said to them the possibility of failure is 100 percent, however, the result was against the odds. The 11.5-year-old street magazine has circulation of 15,000 fortnightly, with 150 vendors in 9 cities.
Similar situation to Gazeta Uliczna in Poznan, drastic change of society in 1989 made many people fall into homelessness here. According to Dasha, at the start, most of the vendors were in their 50s but getting be younger since the global economic crisis in 2008.
Over the yummy Chez lunch and Kofola, the conversation went on and on.