FAVOR (Family Action Volunteers—Romania)

Project No: E28

Project Manager:
Paul Katz

Contact Info:
FAVOR@clicknet.ro

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FAVOR (Family Action Volunteers—Romania)

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Project Manager: Paul Katz

The Katz family have had years of hands-on work in orphanages in different locations in Romania and Moldova, and presently work in Bacau. Their organization FAVOR continues their work in orphanages, as well as supporting IT training and providing hardware to needy schools, allowing students an opportunity to partake of the digital age.

Additionally, FAVOR initiated a transitional home for young orphan women, which became a model for local officials. Young women, orphaned at an early age, gain computer skills, learn English as a second language, and make great strides of growth in self-esteem, enabling them to find employment and/or get enrolled in further job-training courses.

At the transitional home, these young ladies, who were raised in orphanage surroundings, grow into various aspects of independent living, actually running the home themselves, receiving instruction in budgeting, nutrition management, sanitation, workplace-related challenges, dealing with bureaucracy, and so on.

As well, the FAVOR project has imported and distributed tons of humanitarian aid among earmarked families, followed up with a visitation program.

Real Life Story — Still in our Hearts — Ioanna was raised in a Romanian orphanage, and had very little self-esteem and no hope for a happy future...

Support for Other Orphans Entering the Mainstream

Bacau, Romania


Younger computer students from CP2 orphanage


A group of boys from CP7 with new clothes and caps.

Aid to Orphans

Some of the aid that we bring in from Europe is earmarked for distribution at various orphanages, Institutes CP2, CP7 and CP8. These are each residential schools for learning-disabled children, half of them orphans and the other half from problem families. CP7 has about 160 boys and CP8 about 120 girls. Before going to these institutions, we take a day to organize and prepare the clothing, so that when we arrive, we set up shop and have the children come in small groups to choose what best fits their needs and sizes.

Humanitarian Aid to Romanian Institutions

At regular intervals, we travel to Germany and Austria to collect tons of goods to distribute among institutions and needy families here in Judetul Bacau. The aid usually consists of a variety of needs: dry food, medical needs such as motorized hospital beds and wheelchairs, plus clothing, shoes, baby equipment, computers, and bedding.

Positive Repercussions of a Changed Life

Ramona was perhaps the most challenging case of all the girls to come out of CP2. She had never received loving attention from anyone in her life, and it showed in her comportment. She lacked even the simplest of social graces and was always getting into trouble. Even when she attended a couple of our free computer and English classes, Ramona had not applied herself to learn anything.

Transitional home for orphanage graduates

Our Computer Training Center provides high-school-aged orphans with important vocational skills. The young students, most of whom had never touched a computer before, are trained in typing and basic computer-related skills including layout, creating spreadsheets, and managing files.

Short Stories

We selected a school in the village of Poduri to donate furniture to. Now, Poduri was built in 1916, and when we first went inside the school seemed like everything was original, from almost 90 years ago! No one was sure precisely how old the desks were, but all the adults that we met in the town told us that they had studied at those same desks. When some of the eighth grade students helped us unload the office furniture we donated, they could hardly believe that they were actually going to be sitting at those modern desks.