The purpose of the program was to offer a safe and well-equipped place for kids from underdeveloped areas and / or poor families to come together, to socialize and to learn together. By doing this and having guidance provided for moments which matter in life, and being physical and mentally protected, the beneficiaries gain improved chances for their lives. Visit us on our Instagram account to see what we do.
From September 2023 to June 2024, we started a dedicated coaching and education program for the kids participating. The customized program covered support for e.g. Romanian and English language lessons, exam preparation for maths, and group or individual coaching. And, as one of the highlight, an excursion to Bucharest. Looking back at a successful coaching and education program 2023/24, we are proud of our kids. We saw them grow, we witnessed partnership and kindness, we observed how they matured over the past years we worked together with OAZA in Arad. We are happy that our program could contribute to their growth. We are sure they will continue their paths in a positive way based on the learnings and experiences tey had. They will shine remembering the good times with us in the program as we do too. Until we meet again: Doamne Ajuta and La Revedere!
From September 2022 to June 2023, we ran our education program together with OAZA Association in Arad and our volunteers covering various topics such as English and German classes, medical and well-being topics as well as insights to the world of business. Last but not least, we taught the kids basic project management, so that they can apply in real-life the knowledge. Collaborating with the kids face to face or remote, was every time touching us and gave us energy and many rewarding moments. Reaching the end of the 2022/23 program, we look back at a successful year. Our kids were amazing, our volunteer group supported us in an outstanding way. Thanks to many good-willing people, we could achieve what we were hoping and working for: Help to make a difference for the kids - making the world a better place.
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Addressing key social problems - (A) Incomplete education and health risk; beneficiaries risk poverty and social exclusion; prematurely out of school, low or no chances on the job market. (B) Missing specialized programs for groups with education shortages; no sufficient / adequate programs for special vulnerable groups (access to impactful programs increasing potentials); social exclusion and impossibility to access opportunities in full (education, jobs).
Main focus area of offering - (1) Basic language course (e.g. DE, EN); business insights (e.g. how a company operates, financial 101); healthy lifestyle (e.g. nutrition, medical awareness); quick skills (e.g. soft skills / useful craft); after school homework. (2) Collaborate with people from the “eco bio green” movements, artists / craftsman, companies (service centers, agriculture, production site), medical staff. (3) Projects done by beneficiaries, guided by OsA, partner & supporters, on topics related to social, economical and / or ecological topics (in the spirit of “beneficiaries giving something back to their communites.
Help us to build a better place for such kids like Maria and her siblings: by volunteering and by contributing to our fundraiser campaign.
Maria’s reality is harsh. Her father works as a truck driver for a German company and is away for weeks at a time. Her mother works abroad during the harvest season employed by a fruit cooperation supplying West European markets. Both of them miss their children dearly. It is Maria’s aunty and their neighbors who raise the kids together with their own, doing as good as they can. Still, it hurts when the parents are not there to have a life together, to share the good moments as well as the pains.
The outlook for kids such as Maria is a mixed one. Many children will drop out of school between age 14 to 17. Health problems are common, addiction is a reality, some experience abuse in their environment, and others eventually lose sense of a good way forward, ending up being violent or into criminal groups. Sadly, most of these children will live through what their parents have suffered from: lack of formal education, discrimination, unemployment or working in low paid jobs.
But the good news is that there is a solution. In addition to the school and the adults raising these kids, a significant improvement of their lives can be achieved by giving them a safe and well-equipped place to come together, to socialize and to learn together. As a result, these children can have a chance to escape poverty.
Today, the kids from underdeveloped areas and/or poor families suffer from having no or limited access to a fair education support system, having dilemmas of making tough decisions on priorities, and being not (fully) introduced to society, its expectations and opportunities.
With these restrictions together with the vast unexplored fields of fair chances out there, whole generations are facing repeating disadvantages, are robbed of their fair shares of a good life. The biggest challenge stems from lacking a good education support and being at the same time kept in a safe, social stabilizing, environment.
The given potential are not explored since the focus is on immediate needs and what could be a possible future is virtually unknown. Our vision is to see the beneficiaries having a glimpse of the opportunities and options they can access, how the future could look like and what would be their part in achieving this.
Stay positive and human. Also and especially in these times, there are lots of people in need waiting for help. Want to know more about us and how you can help? Then click here: campaigns. Or contact us by email: observa.ajuta@gmail.com. And please follow us on Instagram: observa_ajuta.
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