Touched Romania
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Mission Statement
Touched Romania is a non-governmental orgaization established in 2005, working in Romania,to prevent child abandonment and offering integrated and holistic support to marginalzed women and their children.
About This Cause
The Three–Fold Mission a. Hagar Home maternal center provides an alternative to child abandonment and the opportunity to build a better future for disenfranchised women and their children. b. Caring for the needs of children abandoned in maternity hospital and institutions. c. Helping to find responsible foster care families for abandoned children and supporting them while in foster care. Touched Romania has provided support to over 100 mothers and children at our residential home; for over 1000 children from hospitals, 35 children in foster care network. We work closely with mothers, children and foster families, providing immediate as well as, on-going support and follow-up, to monitor progress and ensure success. Project Descriptions a. Hagar Home Maternal Center Empowers women that have been exploited (i.e. domestic violence, human trafficking, etc.) with pratical life skills so that they can overcome their past. We also provide resources for them to be able to care, long term, for their children. Our overall objective is to integerate them back to the community, as a productive citizens. Our home provided the following resources to high riks mothers and their children: • Shelter, food, clothing. • Medical assistance, legal resouces, counseling services and spiritual support. • Individualized life skills training, art therapy and parenting classes. • Prevention training in the area of family planning, women’s health, domestic violence and human trafficking. • Vocational courses and professional skills coaching in preparation towards job placement. • Community support group for women. • Childcare/after school program. • Re-entry program with transitional housing after care. Touched Romania Foster Care Program Often children who are institutionalized over a long period of time become ill and suffer from developmental delays and complex medical disorders. This program was created as a solution, to move abandoned babies out of hospitals and institutions, into caring and responsible families. We provide a monthly financial allocation for the children, as well as needed medicine, clothes and school supplies and counseling services. Touched Romania Volunteer Program We have community outreach projects in several hospitals and institutions in Bucharest that have abandoned children and/or those with serious, long-term illnesses. This program includes: - Social assistance and advocacy programs for institutionalized children and their mothers - Providing hands-on care and provisions for children (diapers, food, medicines, etc.) - Events and educational programs for hospitalized children Center for Counseling and Social Reintegration The center offers counselling (emotional and juridical) to woman and children who are victims of domestic violence , poverty and social exclusion, providing social and professional services to help at risk families findshelter and employment. How you can partner with Touched Romania? Your company’s contributioninvests in the current and future generation of Romania—through helping to prevent child abandonemend and strengthening of the family. Touched Romania does not receive governemental funding and relies on the financial and in-kind participation within the community, to sustain our programs. Corporate service projects and/or volunteer opportunites are possible with all of our above mentioned programs.For more details please visit: www.touchedromania.org