I.                     Ion Neculce School Project

II.                   Children in fostering

III.                  Transfrontalier Phare Project– Republic of Moldavia

IV.               Phare MIS Project– Support for poor gypsy families in Raducaneni

 

                       

I. Ion Neculce School Project

 

            During January and February we have started again the activity in Ion Neculce school, the school where we have considered our help is needed, due to the fact that children who learn here have to face many problems as: poverty, violence inside their families, alchool abuse, being raised by a single parent, etc.We  also considered it is better to offer counselling twice a week (on Thursday and Friday), so that we ca help as many children as possible.

            We have rearranged the counselling room we have inside the school and we have tried to make it merrier :we took  there toys and educational materials, so that children who come for help ,no matter what their problems are, will feel safe and will be able to openly talk with us.

            Some girls came –young adolescents with comunication and relationship problems with their parents, poor school results, bad friends and lack of interest for school activities.But their first major step was taken-they came and started talking about their problems, becoming aware of the situation they are in-and who knows?-maybe after some counselling sessions they will find the power to go on and overcome the situation they are in.

            Also, another important step was that children who have parents working abroad started coming to us for counselling.

 

                                    

 

In January and February we have also continued selecting volunteers.Interviews took place and six volunteers were selected.Most of the volunteers are students and, because of this,there are no guarantees for their continuity-they seem to be very enthuziastic at first but, the moment they find the possibility to work and get paid they prefer to do this instead of doing vounteer work.We will continue selecting volunteers within our possibilities.

 

 

   

 

 

The volunteers who were selected were involved in debates on different themes, suplimentary support at Romanian language and dancing.

   

In the same time, during the month of February,we talked to the director from the Palace of Children in Iasi and, with the help of one of their teachers we started developing in “Ion Neculce” school another activity:that of teaching children the Italian language.

We do our best in order to develop the activities we offer to children in “Ion Neculce” school.

 

   

                                    

 

II. Children in fostering

 

 

Although the program of monitoring children in fostering ended in December 2007, we continue to keep in touch with them, as we were their support for a long time and we still represent for them an important reference point.We stopped visiting them on a monthly base but we speak on the phone ,talk to them as they started paying us visits and we offer counselling to the foster families.

We also take the necessary steps in order to find financing that will allow us the development of a new project for children in fostering and foster families-until then we continue developing this project as volunteers.

We brought joy to these children, during January and February, as we offered them toys, puzzles and clothes that were given to us by the hypermarket Carrefour Iasi and with the kindness of those who help us within the “Clothes for my neighbour” program.

 

 

   

     

 

 

III.                Transfrontalier Project – Republic of  Moldovia

 

 

As we have already told you last month Joseph Foundation has started implementing a  Phare CBC Transfrontalier  project in partnership with Caritas Moldova.

 

The project “Transfrontalier partnership for supporting children in need” is designed to achieve a stronger collaboration between governmental and non-governmental organizations from Iasi and Chisinau,organizations that are working in the field of child protection.In order to achive this objective, know-how visits will be done, a comparative study (Iasi-Chisinau) will be realised on the topic of abandoned children and the social protection system and a training for 20 specialists in the field, from Iasi and Chisinau, will be hold.

 

         In February the first visit to Caritas Moldavia in Chisinau was taken.Like this, we had the opportunity to understand the way they work with children in need.We visited a kindergarten in Cretoaia and a day care center for children with handicap in Sangerei.One of their strategies is to colaborate in all their projects with the church.We had the chance of meeting devoted people who, using little resources, work for the well being of the children in need. It was a visit in which we learnt a lot and we left Chisinau grateful that Romania have taken many more steps in developing the social services.

 

 

   

 

   

 

 

                          

IV.   Phare MIS Project – Support for poor gypsy families in Raducaneni

     

            In January we started implementing the project “Together for an inclusive society”, project financed through Phare funds-Measures for Social Inclusion.The project is focused on qualifying 30 gypsy people in Raducaneni in two jobs:carpenter and constructor. Like this, the beneficiaries of this project will be able to support themselves and become a real support for their own families.

 

   

 

 

         In January and February we developped organizational and communication activities with our partners:The Local Council in Raducaneni and Green Ecological Foundation.We paid some visits to Raducaneni and started selecting beneficiaries for the project.Also, we have realised the informational materials that will help promote the project in the local community.

 

      

   

 

 

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