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Markku Sosimaki (Dada), the head of AMURT Romania, agree the conditions were improved and private orphanages did quite well but many children were not prepared to leave the care system when coming to the age of 18 years old. They did not just lack emotional support – they also lacked basic life and work skills such as how to cook, iron a shirt, keep a job, or solved an argument through compromise. “When they leave orphanage… they didn’t really have a choice about what to do next,” he said, pointing to the slab of concrete under a billboard that is home of many homeless youth of Bucharest today. Read more: click here. To enable homeless and high-risk youth to permanently exit the social services system, start meaningful sustainable careers and realize their full potential.
Vocational training is an important step in the continuous training process of beneficiaries in the project. This way they are given the possibility to obtain some theoretical and practical knowledge, specific for a profession, increasing their chances to be employed. Ateliere Fara Frontiere (AFF) provides such possiblities and few of AMURT’s beneficiaries attended an interview and got enrolled in the program. AFF mission is social and occupational integration of people in need through workshops and joint economic activities: recycling and reconditioning computers.
AMURT Romania is developing a new approach to the problem of integrating young people at risk of social exclusion into society, in its work with homeless youth, and those leaving the care system. The aim of this new approach is to facilitate such young people in shifting away from a dependent relationship with the public and private welfare systems towards an empowered role within the provision of such social services for others. It is a profound transformation of a “beneficiary” mentality towards a “benefactor” mentality. Read more about AMURT Romania’s near future programs and activities, click here
The AMURT Christmas, 23rd December, was again special for all of us. It was the second Christmas with our beneficiaries having fun and nice time to get to know each other. Few of the previous beneficiaries also join including the staff of AMURT.
Same as last year, the invisible storekeeper of Santa Claus, who this year was 201 years old surprisingly one year older than Santa (last year he was younger), magically became visible for those in Domnesti when pushing the boxes of gift to be delivered in Hungary. Empty cookie jar got filled, clothes taken from the air, and magical salt converted boxes of gifts.
Six of the Domnesti project’s beneficiaries successfully completed the exam of ASSD’s vocational training in construction and renovation. This training will provide them with a certificate which is valid in all EU countries.
Read more about AMURT Romania programs and activities, click here.
The Emergency and Safety Skills training discuses about the provision of First Aid. Beneficiaries and AMURT staff learned the basis in First Aid. Read more here.
To integrate into the society is not only about having a job and apartment, but even more fundamentally to change the behaviour and appearance. Integration has three steps. They are time limited by the two programs of the Domnesti Multifunctional Center project: Transitional Life and Independent Life. The two first stages in the centre focus on the beneficiaries’ behavioural change. In the third stage (Integration) clothes shopping is an important activity. The shopping gives scope for them to change their physical appearance by giving them free scope to choose their clothes but the clothes must be of more grown-up society standard dressing. Sounds simple but this is a challenging task…. an excellent personal development exercise. Just imagine how the beneficiary’s self-esteemed improves and how proud they feel about themselves, when they are well dressed. This goes a long way to remove that lable of being a “street boy”.
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What happened to the children of Romania (1990) after the media spotlight faded? This is the question that unfortunately few people are think about it. And, few people have an idea about the answer.
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