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Connecting Valea Bistriței
Funds Sources: RUF Private Donor
Project Name: Connecting Valea Bistritei
Partner: Station Europe
Starting Date: June 2022
Financing: Financed
Project Status: In Development
Total Project Budget: $$83,004
RUF 1st Funds Disbursement on 6/7/22 $20,000
RUF 2nd Funds Disbursement on 11/17/22 $38,754
RUF 3rd Funds Disbursement on 3/10/23
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Learn to Succeed Benevity Campaign $5,270
Funds Sources: Education Campaign
Project Name: Learn to succeed
Link: Benevity Fundraiser
Community Partner: United Way Romania (Profile | Website )
Starting Date: ongoing project
Financing: Targeting $30,000
Project Status: OPEN
Total Project Budget: $100.000 (incl. non-RUF sources) – with this sum we are able to offer support for one year to 315 children, 125 parents, and 60 teachers.
Learn more about our 2021 Learn to Succeed Campaign.
Short Description:
„Learn to succeed” is United Way Romania’s educational program, which fights school abandonment in poor urban and rural communities, where the children’s education is not a priority, but the struggle to find resources to survive another day.
The program has an integrated model, where actions are built around children's needs, however parents, teachers, volunteers and local non-governmental associations work together to solve the problem of school dropout, which is not one of the child, but of the entire community.
By covering all the needs of the children, material, educational, and even offering parental support, the program has a major impact on the children`s lives. Thus, children's chances of breaking the barriers of poverty and having a positive impact on the community increase significantly.
The results of the project help us create enduring changes, at the child and family level, yet additionally at the local area level.
Program details:
"Learn to Succeed" aims to improve children's lives through access to education, and its main objectives are:
- Increasing the school presence of children from vulnerable backgrounds;
- Improving the school situation of children in the program through tutoring and mentoring activities;
- Improving the teaching and empathy skills of teachers working with children from disadvantaged backgrounds;
- Increasing the number of adolescents who continue their education and prepare to enter the labor market;
- Developing awareness of the importance of education at the level of parents.
Main activities:
- Providing after school programs for children
- Providing school materials and financial support for children
- Training for teachers
- Support with tutors and volunteers
- Training for parents
How can one help
You too can help change the life of one vulnerable child for the better by providing the much-needed support to continue education:
Here is the impact of your donation:
- $100 - offers help with homework and access to educational activities for a group of 15 children for one week;
- $75 - provides a set of warm clothes for autumn and winter to a vulnerable child;
- $50 - offers a complete set for school supplies (supplies 35$+ backpack 15$);
- $35 - covers the cost for a pair of winter shoes;
- $20 - provides a warm meal for one child for a week.
Together we can continue the fight against school dropouts!
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Learn to Succeed, Sep 2021-December 2022, $26,805
Funds Sources: Education Campaign
Project Name: Learn to succeed
Link: Facebook Fundraiser
Community Partner: United Way Romania (Profile | Website )
Starting Date: ongoing project
Financing: Targeting $30,000
Project Status: OPEN
Total Project Budget: $100.000 (incl. non-RUF sources) – with this sum we are able to offer support for one year to 315 children, 125 parents, and 60 teachers.
Learn more about our 2021 Learn to Succeed Campaign.
Short Description:
„Learn to succeed” is United Way Romania’s educational program, which fights school abandonment in poor urban and rural communities, where the children’s education is not a priority, but the struggle to find resources to survive another day.
The program has an integrated model, where actions are built around children's needs, however parents, teachers, volunteers and local non-governmental associations work together to solve the problem of school dropout, which is not one of the child, but of the entire community.
By covering all the needs of the children, material, educational, and even offering parental support, the program has a major impact on the children`s lives. Thus, children's chances of breaking the barriers of poverty and having a positive impact on the community increase significantly.
The results of the project help us create enduring changes, at the child and family level, yet additionally at the local area level.
Program details:
"Learn to Succeed" aims to improve children's lives through access to education, and its main objectives are:
- Increasing the school presence of children from vulnerable backgrounds;
- Improving the school situation of children in the program through tutoring and mentoring activities;
- Improving the teaching and empathy skills of teachers working with children from disadvantaged backgrounds;
- Increasing the number of adolescents who continue their education and prepare to enter the labor market;
- Developing awareness of the importance of education at the level of parents.
Main activities:
- Providing after school programs for children
- Providing school materials and financial support for children
- Training for teachers
- Support with tutors and volunteers
- Training for parents
How can one help
You too can help change the life of one vulnerable child for the better by providing the much-needed support to continue education:
Here is the impact of your donation:
- $100 - offers help with homework and access to educational activities for a group of 15 children for one week;
- $75 - provides a set of warm clothes for autumn and winter to a vulnerable child;
- $50 - offers a complete set for school supplies (supplies 35$+ backpack 15$);
- $35 - covers the cost for a pair of winter shoes;
- $20 - provides a warm meal for one child for a week.
Together we can continue the fight against school dropouts!
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Computer Lab at Colegiul National Silvania, $15,000
Funds Sources: Mihai Lehene, Personal FundsProject Name: CNS Computer Lab
Learn More: Facebook
Affiliate Organization: Colegiul National Silvania (Profile)
Starting Date: ongoing project
Financing: $15,000
Project Status: CLOSED
This project was financed by CNS (Colegiul National Silvania) alumni Mihai Lehene in 2022.
During the Spring vacation in 2022, Mihai visited the computer lab together with the High School Principal, Mr. Florin Morar. The condition of the lab was deplorable, the humidity was seeping through the floors and walls, and the electrical network was putting the kids' lives in danger every day.
After renovation, approximately 150 children use this laboratory for Computer Science classes per day. The children now study in a clean, sanitized, bright environment, free of sources of disease (mold).
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Glittery School, $8,200
Funds Sources: Education Campaign
Project Name: Glittery School
Link: Facebook Fundraiser
Community Partner: Noi Orizonturi (Profile | Website )
Starting Date: September 2022
Financing: FINANCED
Project Status: Finished
Total Project Budget: $18,570
Requested from RUF: $7,200
Financed by RUF: $8,200
RUF matching fund: $1,000
Short Description:
Glittery School is a project for supporting children that struggle with reading and writing basic competencies to make progress and reduce the learning gap.
Details
The project is in its third year of development, with the intention of scaling specialized literacy interventions among disadvantaged communities
We want to offer 20-40 primary students from 100 schools the chance to participate in a weekly literacy club and a useful and entertaining summer camp to help increase their basic literacy skills and at the same time to develop a positive self-concept. Beneficiaries are represented by students enrolled in primary school, (6-12 years old) and they are selected by New Horizons Foundation’s local partners. The main criteria for choosing the beneficiaries of the Project are represented by access to the children with families that struggle financially, that could not afford an extracurricular activity, and a Summer Camp or other summer non-/informal learning activities.
Communities that want to organize a literacy summer school will send an application form and convince a jury that they have the commitment and local support (from local authorities) to organize a 10-day summer camp. 25 local teams will be selected for the 2022 summer camp. We will prepare each team to design, plan, organize, and mobilize resources to run a summer school to accelerate the development of literacy skills in children left behind. The training sessions will be led by two educational experts who will provide the agenda and new contributions (strategies, implementation models, feedback on teachers' plans) and will facilitate discussions. Each team will be assisted in the preparation of summer schools. eg: assigning experts for each summer school, signing award contracts, organizing participants, preparing the agenda, coordinating and training the extended local teams, etc. Winning teams will benefit from a set of books and learning materials and a 2000 lei budget to cover meals and/or transportation for children to summer school.
