Children's and youth center in Tbilisi Poverty and war in the post-socialist country of Georgia hit orphans and children from impoverished families particularly hard. Together with our local partner "LifeChance", we opened the first children's and youth center in Tbilisi in 2017, where orphans can find a place to go and shelter. The center, which is run by the Orthodox Church for...
RurAbility and WorkAbility projects for community development (EU projects)In three rural communities in the county of Brasov, we worked with the municipality to train 700 long-term unemployed and unqualified men and women in a three- or six-month course until 2015. This project was funded by the EU and led to a qualified qualification, e.g. as service staff in hotels,...
National Adoption and Foster Care ProgramUntil 2018, we trained domestic families who wanted to adopt an abandoned child and accompanied and supported them on their journey until the child was integrated into the new family. We also trained foster families in cooperation with the local authorities to enable them to take in an abandoned child until the child was...
Social services for children and familiesWith this project, we were primarily able to prevent children from needy families from being abandoned or deported to a state institution. Most of the children we looked after came from very poor families who did not even have money for the bare necessities of life. Many parents were unemployed, did not have sufficient...
Agapedia Center BrasovAgapedia Center Brasov offers two different after-school care programs for children: With the club "The little explorers" we want to create a sustainable basis for the personal and emotional development of the children - based on Christian values - which give them orientation, confidence and support. The aim is to prepare them to become responsible, responsible...
About Agapedia Romania Romania suffered one of the worst dictatorships in south-eastern Europe, which slowly turned into social change with the revolution in 1989. In 1995, the Romanian Agapedia Foundation was founded in Brasov. Agapedia Romania was the first private NGO (non-governmental organization) to start domestic adoptions for abandoned infants and toddlers aged 0 - 3 years. Agapedia Romania is...
Civil Society Network EUSDR Analogous to its 23 years of work in the field, Agapedia is actively involved in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). This strategy of the European Commission aims to bring together the socio-economically strongest and weakest countries in Europe - from Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Austria in the west to Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova and the...