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 Centre BrasovAgapedia Centre Brasov offers two different after-school care programmes 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, trust and support. The aim is to prepare them to become responsible,...
About Agapedia Romania Romania suffered one of the worst dictatorships in south-east 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 organisation) to start domestic adoptions for abandoned infants and toddlers aged 0 - 3 years. Agapedia Romania is...
Civil Society Network EUSDR Analogue 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...
Mother and Child Centre ChisinauDuring the day, our centre looks after infants aged between 0 and 3 whose mothers would otherwise have abandoned them as they have neither a job nor a place to stay. Many of the infants arrive at our centre in a pitiful state and need to be nursed back to health. During the day, the children slowly settle in with our loving team of staff.
National adoption and foster family programmeTogether with the national child protection commission in Chisinau, we set up a foster family programme until 2015 to train and support Moldovan foster families so that they could take in abandoned children from state homes. As there were virtually no foster families in Moldova at that time, it was a major task for us to provide this service...
Community care in the villagesTogether with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, we launched this pilot project in Moldova in 2010 and are currently working on its sustainable implementation in the Moldovan health and social care system. 13 outreach carers and 3 project coordinators from 13 remote villages in the Republic of Moldova have been trained to look after old, sick and often completely...
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