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 Centre BrasovIn our centre 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 programmeUntil 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....
Children's and Youth Centre Tbilisi Poverty and war in the post-socialist country of Georgia hits orphans and children from poor families the hardest. Our local partner LifeChance and we opened the first children's and youth centre in Tbilisi in 2017. It gives orphans a new home and a place to feel safe. The house has...
Current Program of the Children's Center Agapedia K19 - Herzenssache Home Jürgen Klinsmann, together with his former youth coach Werner Gass from SC Geislingen, had the idea to get involved with children in the heart of Geislingen. In several meetings in 2017 and 2018, together with the city administration in Geislingen and Mayor Frank Dehmer...
Radio report by SWR 1 Herzenssache e.V. from the 02.12.18 about the Agapedia Children's Centre in Esslingen and Geislingen:
Radio report by SWR 1 Herzenssache e.V. from 02.12.18 about the Agapedia children's centre in Esslingen and Geislingen:
In the house, which has been made available to us by the Orthodox Church and which we are currently renovating and furnishing, the children and young people will be given the opportunity to come to terms with their past through creative and art therapy work. To this end, the young people can work in various workshops such as a floristry workshop, a ceramics and sewing workshop or a training kitchen.
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