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2017www.hopeandhomes.ro annual report 2017 results 1998-2017
we have improved the lives of 49,255 children
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4 5 annual report 2017 2017 results children left orphanages small that we closed down group home 200 (closed down + pending + orphanages opened institutions where we 1 made an impact) 2 closed down children 2,649 remained with their family
professionals in child 421 protection institutions participated 124 children in professional reintegrated in the family training programmes 2017
young people received 153 support for an independent life 110 of our Day Centres (social-professional integration)
34 children 19 mothers 36 of our Emergency Reception Centres 6 7 annual report 2017 counties where we were active in 2017
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What we discovered in Romania 20 years ago shocked us, pained us and had a profound impact on our lives from then on.
With Ștefan Dărăbuș, we discovered 60 infants hidden away on the top floor of the hospital in the town of Cavnic. They were lying silently in cots covered in their own filth. We were shocked, as if by an electric current, and we realised that we had to rescue them. This was the spark that set us on the path of deinstitutionalisation.
The success of our work in Romania is largely due to our all-Romanian team who have demonstrated amazing compassion, courage and commitment to totally transform the childcare system in the country, together with state officials at all levels who have supported their action.
Sadly, there are numerous countries in the world where children are still placed in orphanages, but Romania leads the world in its demonstration of how it is possible to transform such systems by freeing children from state institutions and getting them back to the love of families.
My wife Caroline had the dream to close every orphanage in Romania and soon her dream will come true.
Mark Cook Founder of Hope and Homes for Children
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From time to time, I visit the families that are in our care. I remember this grandmother with two kids, a nine-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl, living together with their dog in a rental somewhere on the outskirts of a town.
They were waiting for me at the front gate. Although they were leading a life of dire poverty, the room, which doubled as kitchen and living room, was clean and cosy. The boy proudly showed us his school notebooks, and the girl was so cheerful that we were quickly intoxicated. I asked them how they were doing, and the grandmother said that, as long as they were together, it was fine. Still, one thing shocked me.
She said that, whenever they have some leftover bread, they could feed the dog too. This was a family who had no idea what they would eat for their next meal, let alone the next day. There are many other families living this way. But this grandmother and her grandchildren are together, they love each other, they care for each other, they live their life in dignity, despite their sheer poverty.
And I am sure that, years from now, when the two kids grow up, their grandmother’s love and the fact that they grew up together will enable them to remember their childhood as a happy part of their lives.
Ștefan Dărăbuș Regional Director, Central and Southern Europe
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our vision
At first, our programmes were financed through funds raised by Hope and Homes for Children in the UK. Happily, in the past few years things have started to change. An increasingly significant part of the A world where no child has foundation’s national budget comes from companies that operate on the Romanian market or from private to suffer the nightmare donations made by big-hearted Romanians. of institutionalisation.
In 2017, we have managed to have an 80% increase of local funds. This was such good news, not only for our beneficiaries, but for us as a society on the whole. Because what makes a nation truly civilized is not only the infrastructure it builds but how it pools resources to help its most vulnerable members.
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Mother, father and home are among the most meaningful words in my life. They are words full of love, trust, cheer, wisdom, modesty, strength. These are the words that best explain who I am.
In Romania, in the past 20 years, Hope and Homes for Children has been adding these our crucial ingredients to the lives of children for whom mother, father and home are not everyday realities. And I am only too happy target to be part of this family. Amalia Enache Hope and Homes for Children Ambassador
To close down all the old-type child protection institutions in Romania by 2026.
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our values
My greatest joy is to play the violin. When the sounds make hundreds, even thousands of human souls vibrate all at once, magic can happen. Music has the power to make people better. Better, that is to say more open and more attentive to the needs of the person next to them. Children need our love and support the most. This is why I joined the Hope and Homes for Children Foundation with no hesitation, because I wanted to help, as best I We believe that attachment, could, and contribute to their most ambitious and generous target: a normal life for institutionalised children in Romania. personal attention, love and
For the past 20 years, Hope and Homes for Children has stimulation are crucial for been by the side of vulnerable children in Romania. Their successful programmes prove that deinstitutionalisation each and every child. offers these kids a chance to have a future, to make room for hope in their lives. For this, I applaud Hope and Homes for Children.
I am honoured to be a Hope and Homes for Children Ambassador. Through my art, I am happy to support the Foundation’s initiatives and most of all their beneficiaries, the most vulnerable kids in Romania.
Alexandru Tomescu 18Hope and Homes for Children Ambassador 19 annual report 2017
In 2017, I became a Hope and Homes for Children Ambassador and I support their programmes, because I strongly believe that the best start in life depends on the trust and love of the family. Together, we can offer a happy childhood to those who are our now growing up far from their families and those who need our objectives support to remain where they belong – with their parents.
In the past 20 years, Hope and Homes for Children has transformed lives for the better and I am honoured to say that, through my art, I serve the same cause.
To prove that care given to children in families and Marius Manole communities can successfully replace institutional care. Hope and Homes for Children Ambassador
To increase the number of professionals who are responsible for child welfare and protection, who work to prevent the separation of children from their families and to provide quality care.
To influence central and local public policies in order to enable all children to be cared for within a family.
To set up strategic partnerships with other institutions, in order to make sure that the elimination of institutional childcare is a priority.
To develop the network of professionals and volunteers active in the field of child protection, by improving their knowledge and skills.
To raise public awareness on the plight of children, families and communities who suffer the consequences of an obsolete child protection system.
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Closing down old-type institutions
Back in 2000, over 100,000 children were abandoned in orphanages all around Romania. Today, only 6,500 children live in such institutions.
The trauma and the devastating consequences of institutionalisation are amongst the most severe forms of abuse and violence that children suffer. Children growing up in orphanages exhibit physical, emotional, social and cognitive developmental delays. And young people coming out of these institutions are faced with the inability to become independent, which makes them easy targets for abuse, exploitation and trafficking; or they can develop forms of anti-social behaviour.
We want to identify the most suitable alternatives for children in orphanages, we want to help them grow up in an environment as similar to a family as possible. We help children reintegrate in their immediate or extended families, if we find they offer suitable conditions, or we support the family until they provide such conditions. The family reintegration of institutionalised children is supported by a package of childcare measures destined to keep children with their families.
Since 1998, 922 children have been reunited with their families.
Other children can be placed in foster care, with state-certified caregivers, or can be adopted. There are however cases where children need specialised care, so foster care or family reintegration are not suitable alternatives; these children are placed in small group homes.
Small group homes accommodate a maximum of 10 to 12 children or young people. Here, they enjoy the benefits of a family-like environment, the benefits of care, education, emotional counselling and support, providing them skills towards living an independent life.
The mission of Hope and Homes for Children is to close down all orphanages in Romania by 2026.
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Orphanages closed down or soon to be – 2017/2018 timeline 7 Suceava 9
1 2 4 Bihor 8 5
Bucharest 1. ”Sfântul Spiridon” Placement Centre – Târgu Frumos, Iași 6 3 2. ”Ion Holban” Placement Centre – Iași 3. ”Pinocchio” Placement Centre – Bucharest, Sector 3 4. ”Năsăud” Placement Centre – Bistrița Năsăud 5. ”Elena Doamna” Placement Centre – Târgu Neamț 6. ”Robin Hood” Placement Centre – Bucharest, Sector 4 7. ”Pomârla” Placement Centre – Botoșani 8. Number 2 Placement Centre – Oradea, Bihor 9. ”Sfinții Arhangheli” Placement Centre – Solca, Suceava 26 27 annual report 2017
“SPERANȚA” (HOPE) – SMALL GROUP HOME NO. 100
The ”Speranța” Home in Bucharest, Sector 3 now accommodates 8 children who have moved here from the ”Crinul Alb” (White Lily) Placement Centre.
Hope and Homes for Children and DGASPC Sector 3 (General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection) initiated the closing down of the ”Crinul Alb” Placement Centre in 2015. The process involved joint actions both before and after the children moved out of the centre: first, with support from authorities and Hope and Homes for Children, they were assessed from a social perspective, to analyse the chances of family reintegration; then, they were submitted to a psychological and pedagogical assessment, in order to set up the group or groups based on age, common interests, friendships, special needs etc. Our joint action also covered preparing the children for the move – through group cohesion exercises, activities aimed at boosting self-confidence and trust, social abilities and interpersonal communication skills, visits to the new home – and preparing staff members in charge of the home through case studies, abuse and neglect management; we also called for volunteers for educational and social activities, through the ”Ajungem Mari” (Growing Up) programme.
At the same time, we worked on building the new home for the children in the ”Crinul Alb” Placement Centre. The new home is a one-level building with four bedrooms, one large common day room, two bathrooms and a kitchen; all the rooms are large, receive good natural lighting, they are cosy and adapted to the children’s needs.
28 29 annual report 2017 I think that beyond the drama that surrounds these children who have been abandoned or abused by their parents, who suffer from various ailments, what they want most is a family and a welcoming environment as closely related In July 2017, the 8 children living in the ”Crinul Alb” as possible to a place they can call “home” – Placement Centre moved to their new home, named until they are able to fly away independently ”Speranța” (Hope). Together with Corina Caragea, into adult life. It is towards this kind of life that PRO TV Sports News Anchor, and Dragoș Bucurenci, „ they will receive support here – psychological, the children planted shrubs and flowers in the yard, to emotional and educational support. I am happy make the house more welcoming. to have been amongst the first guests to their new home. Once the building was finalised and ready to use, Hope and Homes for Children donated it officially to its Corina Caragea partner, DGSAPC Sector 3, but continues to implement PRO TV Sports News Anchor the accommodation plans prepared with staff members and customised to each individual child. Hope and Homes for Children will continue to monitor, in the long run, the children and staff members living there, in order to prevent potential problems.
In Bucharest Sector 3 there is currently only one remaining old-type institution, the ”Pinocchio” Placement Centre, with 25 children.
Partners: DGASPC Sector 3 The Municipality of the Sector 3 Sponsors: Viridian Housing Ariston Thermo
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During our ten years of activity in Bacău County, CLOSING DOWN THE LAST 473 children and young people have left orphanages that were closed down, 69 of them were reintegrated ORPHANAGE IN BACĂU COUNTY within their immediate or extended family, and over 600 children from over 200 families received direct support and counselling as part of our child-family separation prevention programme. In addition, our Foundation has provided technical assistance to Hope and Homes for Children started its activity in professionals in the system, in order to facilitate the Bacău county in 2007, working together with DGASPC deinstitutionalisation process. Bacău (General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection). In 2014, the two partners initiated the closing down process for the ”Henri Coandă” Placement Centre. Back then, the institution accommodated 55 children and young people. Each of them was submitted to an individual assessment carried out by the Hope and Homes for Children social workers and psychologists, who identified the most suitable transfer solutions for each child and young person: reintegration within the immediate or extended family, foster care, small group homes or residential centres.
Some children were transferred to counties where their parents live, to facilitate the way to family reintegration. Some young people were moved to transit centres or social assistance centres for people with disabilities; young people who had reached the appropriate age for leaving the childcare system were offered support to start an independent life.
September 2017 marked the closing down of the ”Henri Coandă” Placement Centre. Once this old-type institution ceased to function, Bacău joined the list of counties where there is no orphanage remaining – Alba, Hunedoara, Maramureș and Bucharest Sector 6.
Partner: DGASPC Bacău
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This partnership was successful first and foremost due HOLCIM FINANCES THE BUILDING OF to our customers, to those who use our products, and I want to thank them for their trust in us. I am happy TWO SMALL GROUP HOMES that, together with Hope and Homes for Children, we are able to build the children’s dream to have a home „ and a sustainable future. Bogdan Dobre, Commercial Director, Holcim Romania In July-September 2017, Holcim Romania carried out the ”Build a house, give a home campaign”: for each bag of StructoPlus cement with Duraditiv sold, the equivalent value of one kilogram of cement was transferred to Hope and Homes for Children. The results amounted to a total of 300,000 EUR, which will be used to build two small group homes in Bucharest and Târgu Neamț.
Under the slogan ”The home in the house”, the cause related marketing campaign was very successful with Holcim Romania customers, who in this way came to the aid of children who are still living in the Placement Centres ”Robin Hood” in Bucharest Sector 4 and ”Elena Doamna” in Târgu Neamț. Hope and Homes for Children is getting ready to transfer all these children into small group homes in 2018.
24 children aged 7 to 18 will move into the two houses built with the funds raised through this campaign. In these homes, the children grow up in an environment that is closer to a family home, they receive care, education, emotional support and counselling towards the development of the skills they need to lead independent lives in the future. The children will move into the new homes built by Hope and Homes for Children with the support of Holcim Romania by the end of 2018.
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We believe that, in order to grow and develop, to JYSK ROMANIA FURNISHES have a chance to a decent life, children first need to have a place where they know they are safe, a 6 SMALL GROUP HOMES place they can call home. „ Alex Bratu, Country Manager, JYSK Romania
Six small group homes developed by Hope and Homes for children in 2017 and 2018, in Iași and Bistrița Năsăud counties, will be furnished by JYSK Romania, who will provide the furniture and fittings based on a 1-million-lei partnership agreement, signed in 2017 and covering three years.
Three of the small group homes to be built by Hope and Homes for Children are in Iași county, the other three in Bistrița Năsăud. 72 children and young people will move to their new homes, furnished with the aid of JYSK Romania. They are aged between 3 and 26 and some of them have special needs. Overall, throughout the period when they will be functional, the three homes will benefit a total number of 350 children and young people.
In the following years covered by the partnership, the support provided by JYSK Romania will be directed towards other small group homes that our Foundation will build, as well as towards the beneficiaries of our child displacement prevention programme, aimed at keeping children within the family.
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A BOOKCASE IN EVERY HOME
439 children and young people in 42 small group homes developed by Hope and Homes for Children Romania received the best gift from Santa Claus: books for their first bookshelf. The books were donated by generous people who responded to the initiative of Cristina Dobrescu, co-founder of the letter writing and delivery project Deliver Love – the Letter Studio.
In October and November, the team behind Deliver Love launched a call to collect children’s books and asked those who wanted to donate to write a personal message on the cover page. Over 1,000 books were collected this way; they were sorted and wrapped by Hope and Homes for Children and Deliver Love volunteers.
In early December, the books were sent on their way to children and young people in four counties – Alba, Bistrița, Mureș, Maramureș – and Bucharest. Through these books they will all be able to discover the magic of reading and will be able to put the first books in the bookcase of their small group home.
Parteners: Deliver Love – the Letter Studio FAN Courier
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”OPENING DOORS” FOR EUROPE’S CHILDREN
”Opening Doors” for Europe’s Children is a European deinstitutionalisation campaign implemented by Eurochild. The campaign builds international and national partnerships to support changes in national legislation and develops local organizational capacity to influence current EU policies and tools. Hope and Homes for Children is a partner in this campaign and is actively involved in all its activities.
In 2017, ”Opening Doors” for Europe’s Children focused on two directions: first of all, to keep deinstitutionalisation a priority at European level, in the 16 participant countries, with a focus on funds allocation for deinstitutionalisation in countries like Romania or Greece; secondly, an advocacy and communication campaign, with a focus on stakeholders and messages to be sent for the allocation of European funds for deinstitutionalisation post 2020.
Two documents were drafted as part of the programme. The first is ”In Retrospect: Looking towards the Future”, which analyses the achievements of the first stage of the Opening Doors campaign, focusing on concrete results in Eastern European countries: lower numbers of institutionalised children, progress in prevention programmes aimed at keeping the child with the family and progress in child protection legislation. The second is ”The End of Institutional Care in Europe”, a call to action that contains general recommendations for the 16 countries participating to the campaign, covering policies related to European funds for deinstitutionalisation, as well as concrete recommendations customised to each country, function of the local context and local progress in reforming the system.
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Preventing the separation of children from their families
39% of children in Romania live in poverty (according to the National Strategy on Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction). These children have no clothes or shoes, they do not go to a kindergarten or school and, sometimes, they even lack food. This sometimes forces parents to resort to desperate measures and to put these children in childcare, in orphanages, where they do indeed receive food, but where they are deprived of affection.
We consider that family should come first in the life of a child. This is why we are in favour of keeping children and parents together, and we have designed a tailored approach when we provide assistance of any kind. Each action plan is customised, each decision is taken by professionals who factor in individual indicators.
From 2001, when we launched the child-family separation prevention programme, until 2017, due to our intervention alongside local partners, 28,436 children from over 3,000 families in 19 counties and Bucharest remained together with their parents.
Our child-family separation prevention programme works hand in hand with our main programme, aimed at closing down orphanages: whenever we initiate the closing down of an institution, it is important that no more children are placed into that institution and, on the whole, that fewer or even no children be placed in special care. This can only be achieved through a complex programme, whereby the General Directorates for Social Assistance and Child Protection or Hope and Homes for Children support children in vulnerable contexts and enable them to remain with the families.
In 2017, due to support provided by Hope and Homes for Children, 2,649 children remained with their families.
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HIS EXCELLENCY THE AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO BUCHAREST, MR. HANS KLEMM, VISITS BAIA MARE
In March 2017, H.E. Hans Klemm, the US Ambassador, visited the town of Baia Mare in Maramureș county, at the invitation of Hope and Homes for Children. The official programme of the visit included a meeting with Foundation members and an on-the-field presentation of our activity.
Ambassador Klemm visited the so-called Pyrite community, an area on the outskirts of Baia Mare, where we carried out the Summer Kindergarten programme in the summer of 2016. The Pyrite is a community of makeshift huts, with no access to electricity and a single source of running water, which is a pipe directly attached to a public drinking water pipeline.
In the daytime, the children were left unattended amongst garbage, rats and stray dogs, or they were out and about with their parents, collecting iron in the town or in nearby communities. All summer, these children participated in the Summer Kindergarten programme, on the premises of Public Kindergarten no. 33, which is the closest public schooling institution. Daily, the children participated in recreational and educational activities, with a view to prepare them for kindergarten and school registration. When the programme ended in autumn, all the children in the community were registered into some form of schooling: 24 children registered for kindergarten, 23 for preparatory school year 0, 20 registered for the special school year “Second Chances” and 30 children joined various school years in schools in the area.
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Then, Ambassador Klemm visited a mother of eight living in the Ferneziu neighbourhood of Baia Mare. The family had been included in the Hope and Homes for Children child-family separation prevention programme. The final call was at a small group home for children with special needs, accommodating 10 children, which had been built in 2010 after the closing down of the ”Delavrancea” Placement Centre.
What most impressed and surprised me during today’s visit was the very efficient and deliberate partnership that has developed between Hope and Homes for Children and the local and county administration. I say deliberate because I have learned that this was the precise intention of Hope and Homes for Children, to identify an efficient local partner, and Baia Mare provides the best example, both at local and at county level. „ You have found here very solid, responsible and efficient partners, who do a lot with what resources they have to improve the care and the opportunities offered to children in deprived social contexts.
E.S. Hans Klemm The US Ambassador to Romania
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THE HOPE CONCERT I am the daughter of an elementary school teacher; I am also a mother. This is why I know how important it is to offer children help when they are growing up. It is an honour for me to be able to stand by On May 7, the Romanian Athenaeum hosted the 5th edition of Hope and Homes for Children, and for my music to the Hope Concert, the gala that Hope and Homes for Children bring direct benefits to children in need of support, „ through the Hope Concert. organises to support vulnerable children in Romania.
Loredana Groza
The Hope concert is meant to draw attention towards the programmes that we carry out in Romania and it is also an opportunity to thank our supporters, companies and individuals, who stand by our Foundation. 700 people were in the audience and over 43,000 people watched us live via Facebook, with full hearts. They all witnessed the impressive show dedicated to Romania’s most vulnerable kids.
The following artists took to the Athenaeum stage: Loredana, Andra, mezzosoprano Roxana Constantinescu, Adrian Despot, leader of the Vița de Vie band, actor Marius Manole, members of the national camera choir ”Madrigal – Marin Constantin”, together with 100 children in the Cantus Mundi programme, the Violoncellissimo ensemble, conducted by maestro Marin Cazacu, and pianist Andrei Licareț. They all offered the audience emotional artistic moments.
The programme was completed with real-life stories from Hope and Homes for Children programme beneficiaries. Audience members met Ionuț Ursu, who is a student and an ambulance volunteer; brothers Antonio and Isabella, who have a talent for drawing/ painting and ballet, respectively; painter Vlad Mureșan and celloist Maria Alexandra Petre; the great surprise of the evening was Robert Igna, one of the contestants in the TV Show ”Survivor”, who grew up in a Hope and Homes for Children small group home.
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The following celebrities and public figures attended the event: H.E. Hans Klemm, the US Ambassador to Romania; H.E. Isaburo Ishii, the Japanese Ambassador; PRO TV media celebrities – Cătălin Măruță, Alina Vîlcu, Omid Ghannadi, Diana Enache, Lavinia Petre and Magda Pălimariu; magician Robert Tudor; Otniela Sandu, one of the contestants on PRO TV’s ”Survivor” show; Marius Pancu and Liana Alexandru from TV Channel Digi24; Vladimir Drăghia, Feli, Cori Grămescu, violinist Alexandru Tomescu, one of the Hope and Homes for Children Ambassadors; representatives of public authorities and public companies that we work with; as well as many of our supporters.
The gala was hosted by Amalia Enache, PRO TV journalist and Hope and Homes for Children Ambassador, together with Dragoș Bucurenci.
Main sponsor: Kaufland Romania
Sponsors: UPC Romania EximBank
Main media partner: PRO TV
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It is a great honour to run for Hope and Homes TEAM HOPE AT THE OMV for Children. These people are doing a great job BUCHAREST HALF-MARATHON and the least I can do is to join them for such events. Part of what you give will surely come back to you. „ Omid Ghannadi Architect, ”Extreme Makeover Home Edition” (PRO TV) On May 14, over 370 runners put on the Team Hope blue T-shirt and ran the race of the 6th OMV Bucharest Half-Marathon.
Team Hope is the fundraising team of runners on behalf of Hope and Homes for Children. The funds raised by the runners and donated by companies supporting their employees to run for Hope and Homes for Children were directed to the Stoica family, beneficiaries in our prevention programme against the separation of children from their families.
The Stoica family is made up of two parents and eight children aged 3 to 18. The mother had to put the children into care because of poverty, since she received no help from the father. She kept in touch with them, she visited them in placement centres or in foster care, she wanted to be by their side. Together with her current partner, she made all the necessary efforts to bring her children back home, with the support of Hope and Homes for Children. But they were living in precarious conditions and, without special support from Hope and Homes for Children and the local authorities, the children risked ending up in childcare again.
Through the funds raised by the Team Hope runners, the Stoicas’ living conditions greatly improved. The money was used to buy a piece of land for small- scale farming – subsistence farming and selling in the community, which brought some extra money to the family budget. The housing was also improved, and the family received support for keeping the children in school. Several measures were taken to ensure a decent living for the family and to keep the children with the parents. 54 55 annual report 2017
Team Hope runners were joined in the race by Marius Manole, Hope and Homes for Children Ambassador, Vladimir Drăghia, Dragoș Bucurenci, Adela Pârvu, Alina Vîlcu and Omid Ghannadi - the team of architects behind the PRO TV show ”Visuri la cheie” (”Extreme Makeover – Home Edition”), as well as Otniela Sandu and Robert Igna, contestants on the TV Show ”Survivor”. Andrei Ștefana, a professional runner, came second in the 21-km-race in the national competition and dedicated his prize to the children supported by our Foundation.
40 volunteers were there to support our Team Home runners and were by their side both at the Hope and Homes for Children tent and during the race, at the hydration stop.
Partners: World Class, Nan Events, FruFru, Radisson Blu, Elevate, Shape, Genpact, UiPath, COS, Samsung, Deutsche Bank Technology Centre
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”HEALTH FOR A After the initial six months of the programme implementation, financial resources were allocated to BETTER LIFE” support the children in the families with a high risk of child abandonment. 10 children in three families in Bacău county, 23 children in seven families in Iași county and Our ”Health for a Better Life” programme is a five children in five families in Maramureș county were partnership between NN and Hope and Homes for included in the prevention programme against child Children; it focuses mainly on covering the health needs and family separation. of vulnerable children – access to basic and specialised medical care, counseling and education for a healthier lifestyle.
In most cases, vulnerable children do not have access to basic or specialised medical care due to lack of information on medical services or because such services are not available where they live. To this, we should add the lack of financial resources to cover medical check-ups, treatment and interventions.
The beneficiaries of the programme were children and young people who are institutionalised, who live in small group homes, who visit our day-centres, children and mothers in the emergency reception centres, as well as young people who have left the protection system.
The programme covered the cost of specialised interventions and medical treatment for 40 children and young people, dental services for 20 young people outside the protection system, as well as counselling campaigns for 160 children and their families – participants to our prevention programme against the separation of children from families in Maramureș, Suceava, Bistrița-Năsăud, Botoșani and Iași counties. In addition, we organised trips and other social and recreational activities for children with special needs in Iași and Suceava. The children in Suceava visited Maramureș, went on a ride on the steam train, participated in environmental activities and the children in Iași went to museums, monasteries and fairs in their county.
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The partnership between NN and Hope and Homes for Children stems from our belief that love cures all and that affection should be the key element in any child’s life; these ingredients play a crucial role in the healthy and harmonious development of children. In summer 2016, as part of their health insurance launch campaign, NN set up a photo booth in the Băneasa Shopping Centre, where they exchanged kisses for money that was directed to Hope and Homes for Children, to be used to the benefit of vulnerable children. The campaign raised the funds behind the ”Health for a Better Life” programme.
All children should be permanently encouraged and supported to lead healthy lives both physically and emotionally, and health is a key factor in their harmonious development. This is why we aim to enable vulnerable children and families to have access at least to basic medical care, which they need but unfortunately lack. We are „ happy that we can thus contribute to the improvement of these children’s health and welfare, so that they stand a chance to fulfil their potential in the future.
Anna Grzelonska CEO, NN Life Insurance
Partner: NN Life Insurance
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TEAM HOPE AT THE RAIFFEISEN BANK BUCHAREST MARATHON
On October 14 and 15, 250 Team Hope runners participated in the 10th edition of the Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Marathon.
Team Hope is the fundraising team of Hope and Homes for Children runners. The team started from our wish to extend our fundraising and awareness activity in the community; thus, we identified new ways for people, such as seasoned runners or beginners, sponsors, partners, volunteers or supporters, to be able to contribute to our child protection programmes.
The 250 Team Hope runners were both company employees and individuals; they raised over 125,000 lei, which was used to ensure better living conditions for the Mureșan family, who is part of the Hope and Homes for Children prevention programme against the separation of children from their family.
Without resources for minimum living standards and a decent day to day life, the parents would have been forced to put their eight children into childcare. The family lives in a small adobe house, with one room and a hallway, which is by far too little for ten people. The father has been diagnosed with tuberculosis; he does odd jobs around the village, in exchange for money and food. The mother stays at home to care for the kids, she takes them to school and kindergarten every day. The funds raised by our runners will be used to build them a home and thus ensure better living conditions for the eight children.
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The runners included PRO TV stars Dragoș Bucur, Omid Every time I run for Hope and Homes for Children, Ghannadi and Tudor Bratu, Marius Manole, Hope and Homes I run for the same reason: because I am trying to for Children Ambassador, Vladimir Drăghia, Dragoș Bucurenci, help where help is needed the most. And these Hope and Homes for Children development director, singer children need our help more than anyone. When Lori Ciobotaru, Marius Pancu from the TV channel Digi24, I run, this thought motivates me, and when it gets Otniela Sandu and Andrei Zamfir, contestants in PRO TV’s show tough, I think of them, I think of their needs and ”Survivor”, the well-known blogger Otravă, the LikeOne „ this pulls me onward. vloggers (Cristina Lupu and Roxana Erdei), Laura Giurcanu and fashion bloggers Alina Ceușan and Carmen Grebenișan. Vladimir Drăghia Fitness trainer Cori Grămescu coordinated the warm-up exercise before the races.
During the two-day event, 70 Hope and Homes for Children and Tășuleasa Social volunteers supported the Team Hope runners and were there for them, at the tent and at the water point stop.
Partners: World Class, Nan Events, FruFru, COS, Radisson Blu, Elevate, Shape, Genpact, UiPath, Samsung, Deutsche Bank Technology Centre
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ANDRA FOR HOPE
On December 5, Andra held a concert entitled “Andra for Hope”, to support the families that are part of the Hope and Homes for Children prevention programme against child-family separation.
The concert included Romanian and international Christmas carols and songs, with musical pieces orchestrated by composer and pianist Andrei Tudor. The artists were accompanied by the ”Romanian Sinfonietta” Orchestra, conducted by Andrei Tudor, by the children’s ensemble Cor cu Dor, conducted by Teodora Jaworski, and by the vocal group Acapella, coordinated by George Miron.
Together with Călin Goia, lead singer of Voltaj, Andra sang ”Nu doar de ziua mea” (Not only on my birthday), a song where the two singers speak about harmony within the family and a better relationship with one’s parents that goes beyond occasional contact. An emotional moment was the Andra – Andreea Esca duo, together the two celebrities sang the well-known Romanian carol ”Sus la poarta Raiului” (Up at Heaven’s Gate). Andra also sang the famous ”Let It Snow” together with Andi Moisescu, host of the Apropo TV show on PRO TV. Andra also sang together with Alex Velea (”All I Want for Christmas is You”) and Luminița Anghel (”Din ceruri ninge alb” – ”White snow from the heavens”).
The concert was presented by Kaufland Romania.
Main media partner: PRO TV
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The money raised through the concert will be used in the Hope and Homes for Children child-family separation prevention programme and will enable many children to remain with their families, instead of ending up in orphanages.
The following celebrities and public figures decided to support vulnerable children in Romania and joined the event: Zoli Toth, George Buhnici (PRO TV), Magda Pălimariu (PRO TV), Melania Medeleanu, fashion stylist Adina Buzatu, Marius Pancu (Digi24), Daniel Buzdugan (Radio ZU).
Unfortunately, there are many families in Romania who simply cannot afford to keep their children within the family and must place them into the public childcare system. It is for these families that we are here, and we will be able to give these children the greatest gift of all: being with „ their parents.
Andreea Esca
Many wonderful, talented and big-hearted people were up here on the stage with me. I thank them all for having accepted my invitation to make this Christmas better for poor families. Each carol was a prayer for those children who risk being abandoned because of poverty. We are their hope. „
Andra
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FARMEXPERT SUPPORTS OUR In such cases, we are not faced with factors that are merely material. We are also faced with social exclusion CHILD-FAMILY SEPARATION and the lack of elementary education and counselling. The children risk being more and more neglected, the PREVENTION PROGRAMME parents very often separate, and the parent who takes on the children can no longer care for them; this leads to school abandonment and then, in the absence of With the support of Farmexpert, 60 children who risk direct intervention, to the institutionalisation of children. being abandoned by their parents will remain with their families.
Farmexpert has joined Hope and Homes for Children as a strategic partner. The company has invested 40,000 EUR in the Hope and Homes for Children prevention programme against the separation of children from their families. With the support of Farmexpert, 60 children who risk being abandoned by their parents will remain with their families. The partnership between the medicine distributor and Hope and Homes for Children will last for one year and will see the implementation of necessary measures to tackle and solve the potential abandonment of 60 children in three counties and Bucharest.
The average costs of supporting a child that risks being abandoned by the family is around 700 EUR yearly, while the Romanian state spends the same amount for one child in the care system every month.
Through the Hope and Homes for Children prevention of separation programme, we identify families with a high risk of child abandonment and we provide them with psychological, sanitary, social and material support to stabilise the situation and prevent abandonment. In over 80% of families that have been included by Hope and Homes for Children in the prevention programme, there is one relevant factor that can lead to separation. Many times, in a family that is socially and economically vulnerable, the children are affected first and the most, simply because the parents cannot cope with the children’s constant need for appropriate care.
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We strongly believe that each and every child deserves a family, support, education. We want to help and to contribute permanently to the improvement of social life, we want to help maintain a decent living standard in the communities around us, so our involvement here takes the Farmexpert social responsibility projects forward. Furthermore, we consider it „ crucial to contribute actively to CSR projects, in our attempt to provide an alternative towards a better life.
Iulian Trandafir General Manager, Farmexpert
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THE AVRAM STORY: FROM A TINY CRAMMED STUDIO TO THEIR OWN HOME
Desperate situations can sometimes turn into opportunities and a chance to a better life, and a helping hand from the community can mean the world to a family that is facing difficulties. With the help of Hope and Homes for Children, DGASPC Iași (General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection) and UniCredit Bank, a family with five children managed to dramatically change their living conditions for the better and to stay together.
Seven people – two parents and their five children – had been living together in a mouldy studio for years. Although the family had stable sources of income – the father, Ilie Avram, works at a factory in Iași, and the mother, Nina, receives a monthly amount from the state to act as personal assistant to their 9-year-old son Paul, who is severely disabled – the money barely covered daily expenses and the rent. When the owner decided to sell the one-room flat, they realised they could not move anywhere else, so they asked the local municipality and the Iași DGASPC for help. The local authorities tried to find a solution to keep the children together with their parents.
The partnership between Hope and Homes for Children and DGASPC Iași turned the life of the Avram family around. The silver lining in this case is that the family owned a 1,200 square metre plot of land at the edge of their village, where, in time, they had managed to save enough to lay the foundation to a future home.
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The Avram family was included in the child-family separation prevention programme, which eventually enabled them to fulfil their dream of owning their house. Hope and Homes for Children purchased and donated the materials necessary for the building, furnished the house and provided the furniture, the heating stoves, the lighting, the carpeting and the household appliances.
The local municipality helped them with connecting the house to the power grid. Ilie built a small subsistence farm around the house: a stable with a cow, a pigsty, he grows vegetables, fruit trees and corn, and all this helps the family to be self-sustainable.
Apart from regular donations of sanitary products, shoes and clothing, as well as school supplies, Hope and Homes for Children offer the family counselling on parenting, managing difficult behaviour, managing the house and the farm, so that the family can use all their newly acquired resources in the long run. The social services from the local municipality counsel the mother to have Paul medically re-assessed; he is now going to a special needs school in Iași.
The family members were actively involved in building their house. The new home was done by March 2017 and the family moved in in early April. If one year before the future seemed to be bleak, offering no hope for the life ahead, it now had radically turned into a good life, full of promise. They were now moving into their own home.
Partner: UniCredit Bank
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Social and professional integration
According to statistics, around 3,000 young people aged between 18 and 27 leave the child protection system yearly, with no skills to lead an independent life.
Unfortunately, these young people have very little training or education and, once they are on their own, they are unable to face day-to-day tasks. Their communication skills are very poor, their self- esteem is very low, they have behavioural and attitude problems. They face difficulties in establishing significant relationships with others and they risk being exploited, because they are vulnerable.
Sometimes, young people remain in the protection system all their lives, because they are erroneously diagnosed with disabilities that prevent them from leading independent lives or because they lack the support they would need for semi-independent living. For young people leaving the orphanage, the world is a strange place, they feel alone and marginalised.
In 2002, Hope and Homes for Children initiated a support and assistance program to the benefit of young people leaving the child protection system, in order to help them improve on their skills for an independent life, as well as to provide counselling and material support. We also provide counselling, mediation and recommendations to help these young people have access to the labour market. We work closely together with local authorities to provide these young people with accommodation.
Up to now, we have successfully enabled 1,015 young people to integrate into society.
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INTERNATIONAL In winter, children growing up in regular families enjoy the snow, the sledge, the skates and the skis. SNOW DAY Because we want children who have no family to have a good childhood nonetheless, we believe that they should have their share of the joys of snow and winter. We are by their side, preparing them for „ life through sports, and the slope and the skating On January 15 and 16, 46 children from the Hope and rink are places where they can directly interact Homes for Children small group homes enjoyed the and play with other children. snow and the cold and tried winter sports, during the 6th edition of la ”Snow Day – the International Day of Ștefan Dărăbuș the Snow”, organised by TuSport, under the auspices of Regional Director, Southern and Central Europe, the International Ski Federation. The children learned Hope and Homes for Children to ski and went sledging on the Icoana slope in Cavnic, Maramureș county, and went skating at the Baia Mare skating rink.
The little ones had fun for two whole days. On day one, on the Icoana slope in Cavnic, 24 children and young people in the Alba Iulia 25 small group homes tried skiing for the first time, under the supervision of instructors. Once they mastered the basic moves and positions, the new skiers took to the slopes, where they had fun for a few hours, while others prefer to go sledging.
On day two, 22 children and young people in the ”Dealul Florilor”, ”Cehov” and ”Griviței 37” small group homes had fun at the skating rink in the Baia Mare Old Centre. Some put on their skates and went gliding on ice for the first time. They all enjoyed the time spent together and tried to demonstrate their skating skills in spite of the cold and of the inevitable beginner clumsiness. At the end, the children received diplomas and sweets from TuSport.
Partners: TuSport, DGASPC Maramureș, Baia Mare International Airport
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SPECIAL WINTER GAMES
On February 28, 160 children and young people with special needs in the Maramureș child protection services set up 12 teams (The Bees, The Ladybirds, The Puppies, The Butterflies, The Snow Drops, The Hearts, The Tulips, The Daisies, The Snowmen, The Cats, The Ponies, The Stars) and participated, in turns, in the competition events.
They played football, tic-tac-toe and hopscotch on the snow, tug-of-war and the relay race, they went sledging, they aimed snowballs at a target and they made snowmen.
The fun on the slope ended with a small festivity, where the children received diplomas, medals and gift bags. The children and the young people, some of whom participated in the event for the first time, were thrilled to spend the day out on the slope, and they enjoyed the activities which provided a good opportunity for competition.
Hope and Homes for Children initiated the Special Winter Games in 2000, in order to socially integrate children and young people with special needs through winter leisure activities and sports competitions.
Sponsor: Bridges for New Beginnings
Partners: ASSOC, the Esperando Association, DGASPC Maramureș
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SPECIAL OLYMPICS Partners: Hervis Sports and Fashion Romania, Update Advertising, Himalaya, Aqua Carpatica, 7 card, Herbalife, FAN Courier, Alpin57 Lux, RoStar, Golisano, Lions, Essilor, Safilo, Nivea, Miraflex, Colgate, Optimed, Otomed, Audiolux, Motivation Romania Foundation, Motivation SRL, Adrenallina Media, Baia Mare City App, the Baia Mare Social Assistance Public Service, S.C. Vital S.A. Baia Mare, the National Sports and Physical Education University in June 2 to June 5, Baia Mare in Maramureș county hosted Bucharest, and the Special Olympics Romania Sports Club. the 2017 Special Olympics National Games, the greatest national sports event dedicated to people with mental disabilities. The competition was organised by the Special Olympics Romania Foundation, in partnership with Hope and Homes for Children and the Maramureș County Council, with the support of the Baia Mare Municipality.
310 athletes in 29 counties participated in the competition and received 600 medals for running, bocce, swimming and basketball. The sporting events took place at the ”Lascăr Pană” Sports Hall, ”Viorel Mateianu” Stadium and ”Gheorghe Demeca” swimming pool.
June 2 to June 5, the participants with mental disabilities had access to free medical assessments performed by professional doctors with the help of volunteers from local high schools and NGOs.
On June 3, the Baia Mare Sports Hall hosted the opening ceremony of the 2017 Special Olympics National Games. Over 650 people participated in the ceremony: participating children and young people, trainers, family members and local volunteers. Before the ceremony, representatives of local police, the Maramureș County Police Inspectorate, the ”Pintea Viteazul” County Gendarmerie Inspectorate, the ”Gheorghe Pop de Băsești” Emergency Situations County Inspectorate marched through the town in the Flame of Hope race, an event that marks the beginning of the Special Olympic Games.
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ILIE, THE HAIRDRESSER WHO HELPS DEINSTITUTIONALISED YOUNG PEOPLE
Ilie ended up in childcare when he was 3 months old. He was brought up by various staff members in several placement centres, and he went through all the suffering caused by the absence of a family to love, protect and help him.
He started dreaming of having his own barber’s shop when he was 14 and he was asked to help cut the hair of the 200 children who were then in the orphanage. Later on, he went to a vocational school and he completed the training to become a certified professional hairdresser. At 18 years of age, when he was out of the protection system, he had no place to stay and no work. He got hired as an apprentice at a local barber’s shop and things seemed settled.
He married Mirela, who also grew up in the system. They have three children, two boys and a girl, and they are trying to offer them a stable home and material safety. He managed to open his own barber’s shop, a tiny, but clean place on the outskirts of Iași. He couldn’t turn a blind eye to the problems of young people like himself, coming from the child protection system, who have to face a society that doesn’t give them many chances. Ilie trained a few of these young people as apprentices in his shop, then he hired them on a contract. He gives a free haircut to homeless kids, he listens to them, encourages them and treats them kindly. He gives food to homeless people, he helps people with disabilities, he shares the little that he has with people in need and he keeps his shop open to them.
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But it is quite difficult to cover two rents—the flat and the shop—as well as the utilities, the salaries of employees, the providers’ bills, the children’s needs etc. Ilie and Mirela had to move to a cheaper place, with minimum conditions for the children. They filed a request for social housing with the municipality, but they got stuck on a long waiting list.
After many meetings with local authorities and after joint interventions from Hope and Homes for Children and DGASPC Iași, the family finally received their long-awaited house. With the support of our Foundation, they renovated and furnished the house. Hope and Homes for Children offered them financial support for five months in 2017, helping them to cover the rent, the school supplies and the other school and kindergarten needs of the three children.
I look around and I see a lot of sadness. There are thousands of miserable children and people whose eyes cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel, and those who are not strong enough cannot make it on their own. I’ve been lucky enough to always lift myself back from the ground and to always have people to lean on in times of trouble. It’s a lot! And for this I can only thank all those who believed „ in me, who gave me a chance and who continue to support me and my family. And now, more than ever, I will continue to fight for my wonderful children and my beloved wife.
Ilie Mureșan
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Reforming the child protection system
Through strategic partnerships with the Romanian Government, the Ministry of Labour and Social Justice and UNICEF and by working together with Social Assistance and Child Protection General Directorates, Hope and Homes for Children actively contributes to reforming the child protection system.
Hope and Hopes for Children has the necessary credentials to provide professional training; we can provide training both to the care workers in institutions and to the managers in child protection services.
At national level, Hope and Homes for Children lay the foundation for an educational curriculum (the result of 20 years’ activity in child protection) and a training centre in Baia Mare.
At international level, Hope and Homes for Children has offered technical assistance to child protection public services in countries such as Bosnia, Belarus, the Ukraine, The Republic of Moldova, Kosovo, Albania, Rwanda, Sudan, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as Latin America countries (Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico).
So far, 8,546 staff members in the child protection system in Romania have benefited from the assistance programmes carried out by our Foundation.
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”CLOSING DOWN CHILD INSTITUTIONS. INTERVENTION, IMPLEMENTATION AND ACTION PLAN” – A STUDY
In March 2017, Hope and Homes for Children launched the study entitled ”Closing Down Child Institutions. Intervention, Implementation and Action Plan”, describing the concrete steps to be followed for the closing down of the last remaining old-type institutions in the Romanian child protection system.
The study is based on the work experience of Hope and Homes for Children in Romania and it provides a step-by- step description of the procedures to be followed for the closing down of child institutions; it provides case studies related to centres that we closed down together with our partners and it focuses on the assessment of existing resources and services, the social, psychological and developmental assessment of children and young people – with details on assessment tools, methodology and template documents and reports.
The study describes in detail the stages of closing down an institution: putting a stop on new children being accepted, professional training for staff members, the development of residential services following the family model, preparing the children for the transfer and post- transfer monitoring. The study comes with concrete examples and case studies on institutions that were closed down by Hope and Homes for Children and its partners starting in 1999.
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The study targets central and local authorities and partners (General Directorates for Social Assistance and Child Protection, Public Social Assistance Services, relevant ministries) in order to describe the approach followed by Hope and Homes for Children in the deinstitutionalisation process, the stages and the mechanisms that are used.
Child institutions are part of a reactive protection system, which provides the same type of residential care for children with very different needs and backgrounds. These institutions claim to replace parental care, but they do not really address the real needs of children and families. They do not „ prevent crises in families and they do not prevent institutionalisation.
”Closing Down Child Institutions. Intervention, Implementation and Action Plan”.
Closing down an institution is a complex process, it depends on many different factors and it can take up to 24 months or more. In cases where alternative services are developed (small group homes, mother&baby units, emergency reception centres, day centres and transit centres for young people leaving the child protection system), the Foundation asks partners, the general directorates for social assistance and child protection, to identify and provide the land where the alternative centres will be built.
The research behind the study was carried out by a Hope and Homes for Children team, comprised of Ștefan Dărăbuș, regional director for Central and Southern Europe, Dr. Delia Pop, programme director, Bianca Stegeran, manager of the Training, Monitoring, Reporting and Assessment Department, and Radu Tohătan, manager of the Social Assistance Department.
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THE NGO COUNCIL FOR DEINSTITUTIONALISATION
At the joint initiative of Hope and Homes for Children and FONPC (Child NGOs Federation), October marked the first working meeting that set up the NGO Council for support in the implementation of deinstitutionalisation programmes with European Union funding.
Hope and Homes for Children and SERA Romania supported and directly financed the closing down of over 130 old-type institutions, and for 2017-2027 the two organisations estimate an investment of over 50 million EUR in deinstitutionalisation programmes.
The working meeting was an opportunity to underline that experienced NGO should be part of the decision taking process in deinstitutionalisation, to optimise the closing down of old-type child protection institutions.
The participants pointed out that it is important that the deinstitutionalisation process be simplified and that the application deadlines be extended. The current deadlines are unrealistic and local authorities do not have the time to meet all the conditions in the applicant’s guide. In addition, contracting under operational programmes should be synchronized, so as to prevent any problems.
Hope and Homes for Children and SERA Romania offered to share their expertise with representatives of public authorities, to optimise deinstitutionalisation programmes and to strengthen their chances of successful implementation.
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The meeting was attended by the following: Carsten In December, Council members met with central Rasmussen, head of Romania Unit with the European authorities (representatives of management authorities Comission General Directorate for Regional and Urban for ROP and OPHC, of the Ministry of Labour and Policy, Mark Waddington, Chief Executive, Hope and Social Justice, of the Ministry of Public Finances) and Homes for Children, Ștefan Dărăbuș, regional director with representatives of child protection and social for Central and Southern Europe, Hope and Homes for assistance directorates (DGASPC) who are interested Children, Bogdan Simion, FONPC President and SERA in closing down projects financed with European funds. ROMANIA Foundation executive, Mihaela Toader, State The participants talked about the optimal allocation Secretary with the Ministry of Regional Development, and utilisation of European funds for the child Public Administration and European Funds, Gabriela protection system reform. DGASPC representatives Coman, President of the National Authority for Children’s came with suggestions for simplifying the applicant’s Rights Protection and Adoption, and Octav-Dan Paxino, guide and making project implementation smoother. State Secretary in the Ministry of Regional Development, Public Administration and European Funds, as well as The meeting was finalised with the drafting of a document NGO and ROP and OPHC management that includes the suggestions of DGASPC representatives authority representatives. and the civil society on improving the applicant’s guide, as well as efficient ways to implement the projects; the document focuses on the complementarity of projects and ROP and OPHC funds.
Romania is a country with a very high level of implementation of the deinstitutionalisation programme, it is a model in the implementation of such projects to be followed by other countries in the region. I am excited about this initiative, I am glad that you have a good strategy, solid studies that „ enable us to set clear objectives and a clear methodology to follow.
Carsten Rasmussen Head of Unit Romania The European Comission General Directorate for Regional and Urban Policy
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mentions on **according to Facebrands.ro, on December 31, 2017, the Hope and over Homes for Children webpage was on the 41st position in the Non-pro all monitored category (out of a total of 684 entities) and the 5,575th position in the 2,800 media channels general listing (out of a total of 44,050 of monitored pages). 106 107 annual report 2017 finance
Income sources
Funds from the international network € 2,183,163 Programme related expenses € 3,027,965 Funds attracted from Romania € 1,469,860 Development and creation of family type residential services € 1,072,506 Sponsorships from private companies € 1,199,800 Training and technical assistance € 286,138 Donations in kind € 104,529 Preventing the separation of children from their families € 367,892 Other donations € 7,330 Projects implemented for the development of social services € 395,441 Events/ campaigns/ donations from Social and professional integration of young people physical persons € 157,581 leaving the child protection system € 204,384 Other financial sources (non-donations) € 620 Family reintegration, support for children in communities € 204,384
Increase the quality of life of children in foster care, Total € 3,653,023 small group family homes etc. € 497,220
% % Administrative expenses € 199,713 59.76 40.24 Total expenses € 3,227,678 Funds from the Funds attracted international from Romania network
% % 93.81 6.19 Expenses for Administrative programmes expenses
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Quality Assurance and Psychology Department Mark Waddington, Chief Executive
Anamaria Vid-Pop, Department Manager Delia Pop, Director of Programmes and Global Advocacy Diana Bocșițan, Psychologist
Oana Nașcu, Psychologist Ștefan Dărăbuș, Regional Director, Central and Southern Europe Teodora Dărăbuș, Professor Gabriela Rosuș, Professor – translator Bianca Stegeran, Deputy National Director Talida Songhott, Physio – kinetoTherapist
Sorina Moldovan, Storyteller Dragoș Bucurenci, Director of Development Terezia Silaghi, Educator Otto Sestak, Head of Learning and Engagement Social Work Department
Training, Monitoring, Evaluation and Radu Tohătan, Department Manager Cosmina Fratu, Social worker Reporting Department Carmen Rus, Social worker Camelia Arba, Social worker Bianca Stegeran, Department Manager Florina Crețar, Social worker Adrian Oros, Programmes Officer Ileana Cirț, Social worker Mihaela Koblicica, Programmes Officer Ioana Herțeg, Programmes Officer Administrative Financial Department Jutka Kristian, Trainer Cecilia Repede, Training Programmes Administrator Anca Sturz, Department Manager Delia Oros, Economist Gabriela Tohătan, Economist Fundraising and Communications Department Gheorghe Lar, Administrator Voichi Bencze, Caretaker Dragoș Bucurenci, Director of Development Mihai Pop, Administrator Robert Ion, Fundraising Director Teodor Ciceo, Construction Engineer Nicoleta Marcu, Head of Fundraising Mircea Tașcu, Administrator Anamaria Bogdan, Head of Communications Lucian Zagan, Administrator (until 01.12.2017) Gabriela Ciripială, Individual Donors and Volunteers Coordinator Reka Filip, HR Manager Daniel Mihalache, Corporate Donors coordinator Raluca Borcea, Communications and Events Coordinator (starting 15.03.2018) Dana Pârvulescu, Corporate Donors coordinator (until 01.07.2017) Lavinia Băițoiu, Individual Donors Coordinator (until 01.06. 2017) Violeta Rusu, Corporate Donors Coordinator (starting 15.05.2018)
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