Our Partners

Our work focuses on the principles of self-help.

Our mission is to leave our Romanian friends with the education and means to take the work forward with dignity and the ability to help their less fortunate neighbours.

We work in established partnerships with Romanian charities such as:

Fundatia de Sprijin Comunitar (FSC) :

Our major partners whom we set up and have worked closely with over the past 10 years.

A recent evaluation quoted FSC as "The leading organization in the region providing an inspirational example and role model for other NGO's on how to develop services within a poor community".

Together we deliver vital services to over 3,000 beneficiaries. These range from the rural poor, the elderly sick at home, former street children, the disabled and the disadvantaged, be they at home or in institutions.

We provide most of their funding.

FSC have a progressive record in attracting local authority funding while preserving their operational independence. To quote again from an independent audit: " FSC are democratically organized and effectively run - they are effective promoters of the concept of community support".

FSC's current projects include:

Street Children
…… outreach work, refuge and rehabilitation

Mobile Health Care
…… to isolated rural communities

Home Care of the Elderly
…… a care programme for the elderly infirm or disabled

Music, Art, Movement and Play Therapy
…… for the institutionalised children and adults with disability

Training programmes
……… training in home care, health promotion and arts therapy

Read one of FSC's typical project reports They send these to us every 3 months. This is to ensure our trustees and donors know details of exactly what is happening on the ground. We get these reports for every project we fund.

FAST Brasov

We help to fund the core costs of FAST, the Foundation for Social Assistance and Youth, a dynamic young Romanian non-governmental organisation established in September 1998 in Brasov, centre of Romania, by Daniel and Ema Hristea.

FAST's mission is to support the underprivileged people from Romania in their fight against poverty and discrimination.

Target Groups

-socially rejected children and youth
-large families and children at risk
-the elderly and other vulnerable groups
-needy people living in critical situations

Goals

-to improve the quality of life for underprivileged
children and other vulnerable groups in critical situations

-to reduce poverty and prevent child
abandonment in poor Roma communities

-to increase access to education for needy
children living in disadvantaged rural areas

-to promote the concept of voluntary work
amongst the youth of Romania

You can read all about their projects at http://www.fastcharity.ro

Therapy Through Art

This group aims for the rehabilitation of children damaged through institutional life.

It trains carers in institutions to deliver therapeutic arts programmes. These programmes teach methods that value the individual and give them a personal voice.

We have funded them for several years. Sadly owing to our funding problems we have had to stop for now. However we remain in good contact with them

The Marie Curie Children's Hospital

Our work introduces high standards of nursing care and infection control measures in this leading children's hospital .

The Romanian National Tuberculosis programme:

...supervising and funding treatment and training reforms to combat the TB crisis in Romania.

We work with the National Institute of Tuberculosis. Using our office equipment, internet data collection system, travel grants and operating funds, these leading Romanian experts are re-training the health care workers and producing dramatic changes in TB services.

Estuar:

We support this leading mental health charity in Romania with hot meals for a Day Centre which cares for adults with severe mental disability.

The meals are prepared and served by the beneficiaries themselves.

The training and service involved, plus the great benefit of healthy free meals to what is a very poor group, make this a great project that we are proud to be able to help.

Non Romanian Partners

Where appropriate, we work with specialist organisations such as Action Space Mobile, Music as Therapy and the World Health Organisation to help bring specialist skills to Romania.

Read FSC Romanian charity's quarterly report to April 07

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