HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND
During 1996-2000,”Sfanta Ana”
Association’s activities took place in rented places. It cooperated
with different organizations, such as: Equilibre Association,
the National Institute for Studies and Strategies
for the Problems of People with Handicap, the no. 8 Hospital Hostel,
ARPEHAM Association, SOROS Foundation for Open Society, UNICEF etc.
In 2000, Sfanta Ana Association
obtained from Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland, the necessary
funds for the project Center of Curative
Psycho-Pedagogy Ana. An old, degraded building
was bought and transformed into a proper place, in which (“Ana
Day Center”)
functions at present and, separately,
Sfanta Ana Association. In time the building was arranged and
endowed with all the equipment and necessary comfort, with financial
support from the International Women’s Association (IWA) and
from the Ecumenical Association of
Churches in Romania – AIDRom.
After the first year of the Center’s
functioning, a year in which we have included, at first, 9 children,
in 2001 we achieved an important reward of our efforts, materialized
in the partnership with the School Inspectorate of Bucharest,
which approved Ana Day Center’s affiliation
to the Special School no.10,
by taking over the salaries of our didactic staff. Thus, at the beginning
of 2002 we had become a stabile organization, with programs in course
and with sufficient sustaining resources, and our main activities
and projects were related to the “services and activities”
offered in Ana Day Center, daily frequented by 14 children
with severe mental and associated handicap.
During the last 3 years, the activity
of the organization intensified significantly, its program aiming,
in parallel, the organizational development, as well as diversifying
the set of services offered to the beneficiaries: recovery, counselling,
training, psycho-therapy, temporary care, support given to families
in difficulty, media announcements on the problems that these families
encounter, with the aim to eliminate the existent community prejudices,
as well as to develop a network of community support for the people
with disabilities and their families.
The project Ana Day Center became a
priority program, sustained through different new projects.
During 1996-2000,”Sfanta Ana”
Association’s activities took place in rented places. It cooperated
with different organizations, such as: Equilibre Association,
the National Institute for Studies and Strategies
for the Problems of People with Handicap, the no. 8 Hospital Hostel,
ARPEHAM Association, SOROS Foundation for Open Society, UNICEF etc.
In 2000, Sfanta Ana Association
obtained from Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland, the necessary
funds for the project Center of Curative
Psycho-Pedagogy Ana. An old, degraded building
was bought and transformed into a proper place, in which (“Ana
Day Center”)
functions at present and, separately,
Sfanta Ana Association. In time the building was arranged and
endowed with all the equipment and necessary comfort, with financial
support from the International Women’s Association (IWA) and
from the Ecumenical Association of
Churches in Romania – AIDRom.
After the first year of the Center’s
functioning, a year in which we have included, at first, 9 children,
in 2001 we achieved an important reward of our efforts, materialized
in the partnership with the School Inspectorate of Bucharest,
which approved Ana Day Center’s affiliation
to the Special School no.10,
by taking over the salaries of our didactic staff. Thus, at the beginning
of 2002 we had become a stabile organization, with programs in course
and with sufficient sustaining resources, and our main activities
and projects were related to the “services and activities”
offered in Ana Day Center, daily frequented by 14 children
with severe mental and associated handicap.
During the last 3 years, the activity
of the organization intensified significantly, its program aiming,
in parallel, the organizational development, as well as diversifying
the set of services offered to the beneficiaries: recovery, counselling,
training, psycho-therapy, temporary care, support given to families
in difficulty, media announcements on the problems that these families
encounter, with the aim to eliminate the existent community prejudices,
as well as to develop a network of community support for the people
with disabilities and their families.
The project Ana Day Center became a
priority program, sustained through different new projects.
