Social responsibility
Lithuania - through the eyes of Romualdas Augūnas, the founder of SERTIKA UAB, head of the certification service
We helped bring to life the second book of photographs by Romualdas Augūnas and we want as many people as possible to enjoy this book.
We thank the printing house UAB „Green prints“ and their layout designer Aurimas Mickus - without their help the results would have been much more modest.
The photo essay "Out of Season" has already traveled as a gift, with the author's wishes and an autograph, to the home of the SERTIKA team, reached the hands of Lithuanians around the world, and visited a Buddhist monastery in the South of France.
This book could be of interest to those readers who are looking for something not to be played, not to be faked, something real, worn, fragile and sensitive.
"Out of season" by Romualdas Augūnas is very relevant in many ways in these times of the FREEDOM question.
Deep themes, rare shots that were not allowed to be published during the soviet era, are transformed into the current 30 years of freedom in Lithuania, which is revealed in color photographs.
The album is united by Romualdas insight and photo technique, which directs our attention from everyday life to transcendence.
The circulation of the books is limited, who heard this message - click the link below and buy a unique publication for yourself and your closest people!
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in 2021 modestly contributed to the good works of the "Youth Line" public institution with financial support.
Paulius Dambrauskas started a nice initiative to contribute to good works for Lithuania in the company:
In 2011, we allocated funds to the Hiking Club „ŽK Ąžuolas“ to strengthen, strengthen and educate young people.
The organization is engaged in active activities in nature: young people have the opportunity to get to know the Lithuanian countryside and try various ways of traveling. Time is spent usefully and fun: the club is engaged in patriotic activities, traditional holidays are combined with movement: hiking, mountaineering, speleology. So, youth travel in this case is not just a movement from point A to point B.
A nation is strong and has a solid foundation when it has memory, respects its ancestors and learns from history.
Nurturing this value, we contributed to the construction of the Vytė Cross Memorial to Upyna's fallen partisans.
Excerpt from Lithuanian Echo in 2012: Vytogala (Šilalė district), the birthplace of Stasios Darius, celebrates its 450-year history anniversary (July 22). Each year also has its own content, hides the complex destinies of people, and each year has its own face. Again, a man is needed, only he is able to restore history. It's a great opportunity to give a kind word to those who resurrected that story. It is said that thanks to the will of Šilalė district mayor Jonas Gudauskas and the care of Teresė Rubšytė, the chairman of the council of the Lithuanian political prisoners and exiles union, Teresė Rubšytė, the memory of the Lithuanian independence struggles is best preserved in the entire republic. It is not only preserved, but most importantly restored, returned. Thanks to them, people are gathered and a wise, value-aware community is created. And now, monuments have been unveiled for the partisans who died in Upyna village, who were turned into numbers, whose graves were even erased, who were buried somewhere. The Vytė cross memorial sign for the fallen partisans of Upyna was created by the members of the Ėuolo hiking club of the Kaunas University of Technology - Rimantas Milkintas, Paulius Dambrauskas, Juozas Dapkevičius, Ingrida Kusienė. For the first time, the names of the evicted were engraved: Bagdonas Kazys-Ūdra, Henrikas Oskaras-Paulius, Jonikienė Vanda-Kengūra, Petrošius Aleksas-Lapinas, Norvaiša Vaclovas-Algirda, Šaltys Bronius-Sakalas, Urbons Bronius, Vinikas Petras, Beržinis Povilas-Ėuolas.
Humanity has a future when it creates it.
In 2012-2013, we participated in the launch mission of the Lituanica SAT-1 satellite: we supported financially and shared experience, we looked for ways to achieve this goal, and we participated in important negotiations for the pioneers and developers of the satellite regarding this project.
Today, these people make Lithuania famous, their activity market is the whole world, they create added value for Lithuania and humanity.
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In 2012-2013, we also paid attention to people's health.
We supported VŠĮ "HIPPO plus", which develops riding and horse-breeding activities - it is a way of developing cognitive, communication and physical skills, involving horses in the educational process.
This activity is especially relevant today, when technology and artificial intelligence are coming to the world, when we are moving away from nature and time for ourselves.
Human education with the help of horses is very useful for children (from 3-4 years old), teenagers and adults with cognitive, physical or mixed developmental, emotional or behavioral difficulties.
In hippo therapy, people learn to take care of horses, take proper care of them, lead them, and ride them.
Connecting with the horse offers many gifts to people with special needs. The control of their emotions and behavior improves, which encourages them to be interested in the outside world and to communicate. communication skills improve, self-confidence increases, positive emotions are experienced. Social, mental, physical skills increase: tasks are performed, games are played, learning to recognize letters, colors, numbers, and plan one's actions. Physical condition also improves - balance and coordination are developed, muscle tone improves, various senses are stimulated.
Since 2014, we have started paying attention to other organizations that reduce discrimination, integrate people into society, socialize, help members of society improve and find their purpose, and develop tolerance for different attitudes and worldviews.
We contributed to the activities developed by the following organizations:
Public institution "Social Projects Center"
Association "Social Employment Center for Convicts"
Utena District, Leliūnai Social Care Home,
Buddhist community "Karma Kagyu tradition of Diamond Path Buddhism,
Charity and support fund Busti.
in 2021 we supported the activities of the VŠĮ Vilkpėdes community social service center. This institution actively works in the field of adaptation of the physical environment for people with special needs.
Also since 2017 until now, we have purposefully and systematically paid attention to those who take care of children's safety and development. A very sensitive and truly relevant issue in the world, because children are another window into the future of the world.
Association "NGO vaikams confederation" – implements and constantly monitors the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Lithuania and develops and develops NGO cooperation in the field of children's rights and children's welfare.
Currently, it connects more than 70 different non-governmental organizations working with and for children.
We are also grateful that we can make a positive change in the world together with:
Lithuanian Special Creative Society Guboja,
Lithuanian Special Creative Society and Association of the Blind, Visually Impaired and Youth.
Organizations help people with special needs grow and develop in the fields of artistic, aesthetic, work education, and culture, and integrate these people into society.
More about the Lithuanian Special Creative Society Guboja:
UAB "Sertika" DREAM TEAM loves animals very much.
Families raise and take care of kittens, puppies, hamsters, and fish. Some of us watch a few of them.
We contributed to safe the lives of 4 animals: one homeless dog was talked to and taken to an animal care home, and 3 kittens were brought back for breeding from the care home VšĮ Nuaro fondas. One of them was intensively treated for half a year, managed to save, although the damaged eye had to be removed.
We also added a modest financial support to the rescue, treatment, and home-finding activities of homeless cats carried out by VŠĮ Liūtaširdžiai.