August - September 2010 Report

To: Relief Fund For Romania

Date: 9.09.2010

Title: August 2010 Report

Where: Ungureni Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped People (CRRPH Ungureni), Darmanesti Neuropsychiatry Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre (CRRN Darmanesti aka Vermesti) and Racaciuni Neuropsychiatry Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre (CRRN Racaciuni aka Gasteni), London, UK

Aims:

To make strong links between the centres in terms of cooperation and working together.

To help people identify and understand the problems they are facing

To strengthen the links and cooperation with the Flying Seagull Project team (UK.), that will visit the Bacau area centres in October 2010

Description:

· Getting to know each other and identify the talents and skills of both, staff and residents.

· Working with the psychologists to learn more about the residents and their problems

· Prepare and organise artistic moments, workshops and games.

Calendar

CRRN Racaciuni 30 July – 6 August 2010

Six workers and 15 residents

· Organising and offering support and assistance to the students from UK. Meetings with the staff, discussions and sharing experience

· Planning the activities with the workers for short and medium terms

· Work directly with the residents on felt making

· Music and dancing parties outside the buildings, in the courtyard

· Arranging and organising the performance of a wedding party. The main parts were played by students from UK, Alice Hunt and Emma Parry (the bride and a country girl), a clubroom worker, Danut Diaconu (the groom), artists of TFG, the godparents: Petrica Tunza as godfather and his partner, Mariana Mavriche as godmother and among many others, the well-known by now and beloved, Danut Rapa as the mayor. Live music was provided by Gheorghe Stoican on accordion (clubroom worker) and the TFG band: Danut Zelenco on drums and Viorel Florea on accordion and melodica (aka known as ‘blow-organ’ or ‘key-flute’).

7 August 2010 Live concert at Blues for Timisoara International Music Festival

London, UK 10 – 17 August 2010 Visit to UK

· Meeting with Edward Parry (RFFR), to discuss future work and projects in the centres in Bacau area

· Meeting with Mary Turner (Action Space Mobile, Muzika) to discuss and arrange future work and projects. Make arrangements and find ways for future development after the meeting in Bucharest, at the UK Embassy, July 2010 (DGASPC and centres’ directors, Romanian and UK NGOs like FSC, Muzika and Frodo). We were very pleased to meet Suzanne Lord who previously made massage workshops at the centres in Bacau area, and who, very kindly travelled to London, specially for the event

· Concert at Charlotte St Blues, London as a part of the ‘One Day Festival – Rise ‘n Shine’, organized by Ash Perrin and the ‘Flying Seagull Project’

· Discuss and arrange with the Flying Seagull Project team to visit the centres in Bacau area (October 2010).

CRRN Darmanesti 20 – 27 August 2010

Six workers and 15 residents

· Work together with the psychologist to learn more about the residents and their problems

· Planning the activities with the workers for short and medium terms

· Work directly with the residents. Identify the performing talents and skills of the residents.

· Arrange a music performance with a couple of friends, Eugen Amarandei & Nicoleta Opait and a new session of Open Microphone, to encourage as many people as possible, to participate.

CRRPH Ungureni 27August – 11 September 2010

Four workers and 15 residents

· Training programme on using games and exercises and how to involve as many participants in the activities

· Help and assist the staff with planning their activities

· Name games based on stories, songs, dances and drawing, a training programme on using games and exercises.

· Rehearsing songs and dances for a performance to tour with, the other centres

· Jokes, music and storytelling in the evening

Future Work:

Arrange visits between the centres to let people know each other and have fun

I will continue the work at Gasteni, Vermesti and Ungureni.

Vali Racila

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