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Education Our mandate includes strengthening the educational infrastructure through providing educational materials, and bettering the physical conditions of the institutions themselves.
Some of our successfully completed projects include:
Sponsorship program
Educational excursions
Visiting the historical Romanian site Sinaia, Peles castle, and going up Cota 1400m, makes this trip an unforgettable event. Educational Summer Camp
This is usually the first time any of the children have ever been to the Black Sea, so this in itself makes it very special to them.
Besides fun time on the beach, the children enjoy a variety of educational programs complete with music, games, skits and surprises! Fighting asthma The project includes the following steps:
Strabismus
Noi Orizonturi Familia volunteers initiated this medical program with the help of sponsors. Children from Placement Centers who are diagnosed with strabismus benefit from the program. They receive free check-ups and eventual operations according to the severity of the strabismus. Wonderful results have been obtained. Musical therapy
Just ask the patients with life-threatening diseases at the Emergency Hospital in Bucharest. Or the young cancer patients at the Oncology Institute in Bucharest. –Or those with HIV at the Colentina Hospital. - Or others at Grigore Alexandrescu Hospital who have been touched by personal visitation to their hospital rooms or the shows organized by our volunteers.
Participating in these musical programs, one realizes the truth of the saying: ”A little bit of love goes a long ways…” The reality of these words motivates us to do even more for those in need.
Renovation of Older Institutions Renovating the Logoped Centers
We organized a Noi Orizonturi Familia fund-raiser, and with the proceeds we were able to fully modernize three of these centers, and help with some educational material for others.
Oncopediatry section from Oncology Institute in
Bucharest (I.O.B.)
With funds raised by a Noi Orizonturi Familia fund-raiser, we renovated 4 rooms, including replacing beds, mattresses and bed-side tables, painting the walls and putting in new linoleum, installing new thermopan doors and re-doing the sanitary facilities.
We are now working on securing needed medical equipment.
Visiting the elderly Romania, once amongst the most prosperous and cultured of European countries before being devastated by years of Communist rule, no longer has adequate Social Security to cover the needs of its elderly citizens. Typically, a senior citizen, living alone in a tiny one-room apartment, may receive less than $100 monthly, if indeed they receive anything at all. Many elderly simply cannot afford to pay their basic utilities and eat as well. As a result their utilities are often cut off, exacerbating an already tragic situation. Our program for the elderly was initiated with the slogan “They could be our grandparents”.
Our undertaking included:
Maternal assistance
Most of them are women that struggle themselves with difficulties in life, but who nevertheless were willing to open their lives to the children of others, caring and loving them as if they were their own. It was an unforgettable experience for these precious people and a touch of God’s love for them. Donating goods to underprivileged families and children
Here with the help of local sponsors we were able to provide the centers with basic needs, donating food, school materials, clothes, shoes, cosmetics, organizing shows for the children and offering presents.
The impact of gestures of this sort on the children is amazing. Just after we started interacting with these kids, one of their teachers exclaimed, “It’s incredible to see how open they are now, how much more communicative they are, and their faces are just beaming!”
The Center Sf. Maria was without carpet, while housing 150 abandoned orphans. Here we are delivering carpet, plus presents to the kids.
From time-to-time, we take these kids to eat in a restaurant, spending personal time with each one and getting to know them better, plus using the opportunity to teach them good manners.
With the belief that these dear orphan children have real potential, we know that our investment will pay off. When these kids one day leave the orphanage, we hope to have instilled sufficient confidence to help them overcome their difficult backgrounds and become contributing members of society. Whenever there is a need and it is within our power to help, Noi Orizonturi Familia tries to respond with “Yes, we can help”. So when heavy flooding hit Vrancea in east central Romania, our volunteers went to offer assistance to the victims.
We contacted our wonderful friends and local sponsors who generously donated towards this project, a quantity of almost 30 tons of food and supplies being gathered in this way! We organized the transport, delivering personally the items to the needy families who lost so much in the disaster, in this way spending heart to heart time with the ones affected, comforting and encouraging them. It was a heartbreaking experience that taught us so much about life and what really matters!
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