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...
Mother and Child Center ChisinauDuring the day, our center looks after small children between the ages of 0 and 3 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 miserable condition and must first be nursed back to health. While the children slowly get used to our loving team of staff during the day, they...
National adoption and foster family programTogether with the national child protection commission in Chisinau, we set up a foster family program 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 services. 13 outreach nurses and 3 project coordinators from 13 remote villages in the Republic of Moldova have been trained to care for the elderly, sick and often completely...
