Programs - Active Programs

The project “Being educated means having a better future” began its development in the month of April. The Joseph Foundation develops the project in partnership with The Direction for Communitarian Assistance Iasi (DAC).

The project is financed by The European Social Fund through the Operational Program for the Development of the Human Resources 2007-2013 with the amount of 1 728 770 lei and is co-financed by the Mayor’s office Iasi, through DAC with the amount of 37 500 lei .The project’s main objective is: Improve the access and the participation to education to vulnerable groups affected by early abandonment of school, keep them in the school system, professionally train them, involve them in the community life, improve school attractiveness.

On a practical way, through developing this project, from April 2010 until March 2012, the access and participation to education will be improved for 80 children from families with high abandonment risk in Iasi.

The schools chosen to be part of the target group are: School „Ion Neculce”, Scool „Vasile Conta, School „Virgil Madgearu” and School „Gheoarghe Marzescu” .

The objective will be reached through specific extra-curricula educational activities and training services, psychological counseling, social scholarships, the program “a second chance”, social support through creating a support group made out of 30 parents with children at high risk of abandonment, and also the training of 20 teachers in order to become the ones who will facilitate the access to education and the reducing of school abandonment for all vulnerable cathegories.

A media campaign will also be made in order to reach the objective. It will aim at making people (parents, teachers, local and central authorities) aware of the consequences school abandonment has. At three months after the beginning of the project we are in graphic with all the activities.

     The Foundation operates various independent activities which interconnect to create the framework of our aims and objectives. The activities specific to each program are interdependent, yet they interconnect and work together to achieve our proposed objectives.
     Our present active programs are an expression of our goals and desire to respect our statutory principles. They are the following:

     These programs can only outline the activity of the "Joseph" Foundation, without being an exhaustive list. In many cases we are put face to face with situations in which we should intervene (and we do!) in ways that aren't specific to any of the programs mentioned above. We try to integrate these special cases into our organized activity as soon as possible.
     …But these are our future projects, which we hope to accomplish as soon as possible.

... We want to give thanks to all those wonderfull persons and organizations who have given up their time for helping and encouraging our children!!!