Beneficiary NGOs

The association was set up in January 2012 and is a youth organisation that facilitates young people ‘s access to learning opportunities, personal development and promotes volunteering as a means of change in the community. Its mission is to foster the capacity of young people to become involved in community life. With the help of young people attending our programmes, through local and international projects, the association supports the social integration of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, organises educational and sporting events, civil and environmental activism campaigns.

Inimă de Copil was founded in December 1996 by a group of young volunteers from the city of Galati. The association helps children, parents and at-risk communities with medical, educational, emotional and economic support. Together, we turn inequalities into equal opportunities, creating stronger, inclusive communities. We have been doing this for 25 years in the poorest area of Romania, southeast of Romania, in Galați, Brăila, Vrancea and Vaslui.

The Gipsy Eye motto is ,,See Beyond prejudices”, with the aim of promoting Roma culture and supporting the youth of this community. Currently, the association offers learning activities to a group of children and teenagers, promoting education through games near the city of Pascani. Gipsy Eye attaches great importance to cultural diversity and dialogue, to supporting children from vulnerable family backgrounds and aims to animate the village in which it operates, offering various activities and events. To reach its goal, the organisation hosts international volunteers and works closely with local actors.

Academia Faptelor Bune is a non-governmental organisation that aims to provide aid and assistance to disadvantaged people and thus facilitate their integration into society. Through the work that we are doing, we are raising donations and redirecting them to the people we are assisting, providing them with the necessary support. We are with orphans, with disabled people, with people without a roof over their heads. For a better world, we are with those who really need help!

Zambeste pentru viitor’s aim for the future is to support children in placement centres and young people when they leave the social welfare system offered by the state at the age of 18 in order to facilitate social integration, so that they do not know the experience of living on the streets, in shortages and problems. Mainly, our support is targeted at education, self-management in daily life and behaviour in society, through educational and information programmes.

Sufleterra was established in 2021 and aims to help children in jobless families, the elderly, those without earnings and those without a family by providing physical serenity and promoting specific educational programmes and psychological advice.

The Eduterra educational programme is aimed at children who live at the limit of subsistence or who wish to perform, as well as illiterate adults.

Kastel Youth Hub helps and constantly monitors families with poor financial situations, offering educational and social services. In December 2020, the “Professor for One hour” project was launched. The project started as a summer initiative, where we were planning to do a few hours of school material recovery, for the children who were already active in other programs of the association.

Caregivers assesses the needs of different target audiences, including mothers with newborn babies, pupils, teachers – and develops personalised non-formal education and social support programmes for children from disadvantaged families.

We are committed to uniting and inspiring.

More simply, we use our energy to help the disadvantaged in Romania passionately.

We are developing programmes focused on the urgent needs of schools and children.

We are working to support children in rural areas to access education, not to drop out of school and to improve their educational outcomes by distributing educational kits and food, by strengthening the educational infrastructure needed to provide equal opportunities to all children.

The association supports children from disadvantaged families to receive a full and appropriate education for the purpose of preventing school drop-out. Another objective is also to provide pupils with the necessary resources to be able to focus on school and learning: clothes, supplies and equipment, food, financial aid and professional support. Last but not least, the association is helping students with the potential to perform.

EM Association was set up in 2019, and it was involved in educational and special projects mainly targeting rural or economically disadvantaged communities in Călărași county. The activities aim to identify and support persons from socially disadvantaged categories by providing support, consulting and assistance, organising various qualification training courses and professional evaluation sessions.

The Association “Bună Ziua, Copii din România” (BZRO) is a non-government organisation from Bârlad, Vaslui county, working in the field of children’s rights protection; they came to Romania to help children from placement centres and from state child care institutions. The association is accredited as social services provider for social counselling services, psychological counselling, socialising and leisure pastimes, information for children separated or at risk of being separated from their parents.

Association HoltIS is the main provider of parental education services in Romania following the model “How to train appreciative parenting”, considered a best practice model by the Council of Europe in 2011. Since 2019, their area of intervention was expanded by setting up teenager clubs aiming to develop social skills, civic spirit, leadership, team work, and belonging; the Association had 168 HoltIS clubs active in the country in 2022.

Association Ai voință, Ai putere operates in the cities of Oltenița and Giurgiu since 2016. The Association actively works on the recovery of children with special education needs, as well as with social cases. The organisation holds 5 licenses in social assistance, two in job counselling, and one in social economy.

Since 7 years ago, the Association provides support for persons with impressive life stories, children, adults and elders, which it helps to develop harmoniously, reach their potential, and get a chance to a better life. The Association provides licensed social services in the community, working with adults at risk of social exclusion, but supporting other marginalised groups as well, such as abused mothers, abandoned children, youngsters coming from poor families and having outstanding results in education, as well as children or adults suffering from serious medical problems.

The Association for Evolution ROTAS was set up in 2015, with the purpose to support disadvantaged children from the commune of Tunari, Ilfov county. Some of the Association’s activities are: support with homework in the Rotas day care centre for 30 children; leisure-socialising activities, counselling, independent life skills development, school and career guidance, providing hot meals for these children, as well as distributing clothing, footwear, school supplies received from donations, mediating between the state institutions and the families of the children enrolled at the Rotas day care centre.

The SCUT Social Services Association is a non-profit organisation set up in 2000 and operating in Brașov. SCUT supported over 1000 people to build a better life, among which young people coming from placement centres, disabled adults, children, young people and disadvantaged families from Brașov county.

COTE Foundation is a Romanian non-government organisation established in Iași in 1996. The Association works sustainably for the social inclusion of vulnerable children and youth by providing personal development programmes, involving the beneficiaries in the life of the community, socialising and leisure activities, non-formal education.