About Agapedia Moldova Moldova ranks 112 in the Human Development Index 2018 (an index of human development in health, education and income). It thus remains Europe’s poorest country. Since Romanian is Moldova’s official language and we have had experience with post-communist structures in Romania, we decided to use synergies and establish aid projects here as…
Health and social care in villagesWe made this pilot project come to life in Moldova in cooperation with Robert Bosch Foundation in 2010 and are currently working towards its permanent integration into the Moldovan health and social sectors. We have trained 13 care workers and 3 project coordinators from 13 remote villages in Moldova to…
National adoptive and foster family programWe worked with the national Child Protection Commission in Chisinau to establish a foster family program in 2015 that trains and assists Moldovan families so they can take in children from public orphanages and children’s homes. Building up these services in cooperation with the local authorities was an immense task…
House for children and mothers ChisinauIn our center, infants between 0 and 3 years of age are cared for during the day, whose mothers would otherwise have abandoned them because they have neither a job nor a place to stay. Many of the infants arrive at our center in a pitiful condition and need to…
Civil Society Network EUSDR In addition to our work in the communities over the last 23 years, Agapedia has been actively involved in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). This strategy of the European Union is tasked with boosting the strongest and weakest European countries in terms of socio-economics and harmonize their development…
About Agapedia Romania Romania suffered one of the worst dictatorships in Southeast Europe until the 1989 revolution initiated social change. In 1995 the Agapedia Foundation Brasov was founded. As the first NGO in the country, Agapedia Romania started out with a project on domestic adoptions of abandoned infants and children aged 0 to 3. Agapedia…
Agapedia Zentrum BrasovIn our center in Brasov, needy and vulnerable children from nearby schools come in the afternoon. The children come from vulnerable families, are mostly neglected and do poorly in school. In order for them to graduate from school, they receive help with homework and tutoring in various subjects. After learning time, there are…
Social services for children and familiesWith this project, we want to ensure that children of needy families are not abandoned or given into governmental foster care. Most of the children we care for live in very poor families who cannot even cover their basic needs. Many parents are unemployed, have not experienced sufficient education or…
National adoptive and foster family programUntil 2018, we trained Romanian families in Romania who wished to adopt an abandoned child. We accompanied and supported them until the child was fully integrated into their new family. But our work didn’t stop here. We cooperated with local authorities to train foster parents so they were able to…
RurAbility and WorkAbility Projects for Developing Municipal Structures (EU Projects)In three rural communities in Brasov County, we worked with the municipal administration to train 700 long-term unemployed and unqualified men and women in a three- or six-month course up to 2015. This EU-funded project gave participants qualified training as waiters in hotels, storekeepers, salespersons, etc.…