GlobalGiving
Non-formal education - Development of innovative socio-educational programs in Cummins Communities
01.02.2025 – 31.12.2025
The aim of the project is to create personal development opportunities for over 400 children and vulnerable young people, as well as to establish a favorable context for replicating the “From Kindergarten to Life” concept in other rural areas of Dolj County.
The project is structured into three components:
- Creating 2 outdoor learning spaces in schools in Leșile (Șimnicu de Sus commune) and Țandăra (Goiești commune), benefiting at least 300 children.
- Empowering at least 90 vulnerable children and young people, as well as 20 women by enhancing professional and entrepreneurial skills, along with counseling and support where needed.
- Transferring know-how to the Youth for European Society Association and Development and Psychotherapy through Action Association.
Expected results:
Increasing awareness of the benefits of outdoor learning
- 2 outdoor learning spaces for at least 300 preschoolers and students participating in outdoor workshops, supported by at least 20 teachers, 35 parents, and volunteers directly involved in activities at schools in Leșile and Țandăra.
Increasing the active participation of vulnerable children enrolled in the Adina Home Program in socio-educational activities
- 150 activities benefiting 50 pupils from grades V-VIII in Șimnicu de Sus and Goiești communes, with the support of at least 45 volunteers, facilitating the transition from being a rural pupil to an urban high school pupil.
Improving and developing skills necessary for young people to complete their studies and enter the job market
- 100 workshops benefiting 40 young people, supported by at least 35 volunteers.
- 10 young graduates completing formal training courses such as Introduction to Data Processing and Validation Operator, Entrepreneurial Skills Course, Babysitter Course, Elderly Caregiver Course, and other caregiving-related training.
Increasing the active participation of women aged 16+ in community life
- 50 occupational workshops benefiting 20 women from Adina Home, supported by at least 15 volunteers.
- 5 women graduates of formal training courses such as Babysitter Course, Elderly Caregiver Course, and other caregiving-related training.
Strengthening the capacity of other NGOs to address socio-educational needs in communities long-lerm
- Transfer of know-how to the Youth for European Society Association and the Development and Psychotherapy through Action Association, enabling the replication of two socio-educational programs of the Adina Foundation—Open Kindergarten and Afterschool—in two rural communities, Coșoveni and Predești, where projects were previously implemented in partnership with Cummins.
The project is funded by GlobalGiving in partnership with Cummins Generator Technologies Romania.
We build people, we build communities!
01.01.2024 – 31.01.2025
The Adina Stiftelsen Foundation has received a GlobalGiving Grant, in partnership with Cummins Generator Technologies Romania.
The project aims to provide opportunities and tools to encourage participation in formal education, but also in long-term learning, in order to become active citizens and to have a competent position on the labor market.
All project activities will promote mindset changes and joint efforts for positive change in local communities.
Specific objectives:
- maintaining 147 children and young people in the educational system
- empowering 20 parents of beneficiary preschoolers
- empowering 15 women over the age of 16
Project activities:
- Contributes to strengthening the parents’ ability to respond to the child’s developmental needs;
- Promotes the increase in the participation of vulnerable children in afterschool activities and the improvement of school performance;
- Promotes the increase in the participation of vulnerable children in socio-educational activities aimed at facilitating the transition from being a student in the rural environment to being a high school student in the urban environment;
- Contributes to the improvement and development of the skills necessary to achieve tertiary education and facilitate their insertion on the labor market;
- Supports the active participation of women by providing professional training as well as activities aimed at empowering and developing the attitudes and skills needed as employees and active members in the community.
Today's professionals are children who went to school
01.10.2022 – 30.06.2023
The project is carried out in partnership with Cummins Generator Technologies Romania with the support of GlobalGiving
The project aims to keep 102 children from Goiești commune in the educational system and to mobilize at least 139 indirect beneficiaries by developing the necessary skills to become agents of change in the community.
• 20 preschoolers together with their parents and 2 volunteer educators will participate in activities specific to the Open Kindergarten Program
• 37 students of grades I-IV will participate in activities specific to the Afterschool Program under the guidance of 5 volunteer teachers
• 25 students from grades V-VIII will participate in activities specific to the Adina Home Program, including First Lego League type activities
• 20 high school students will be supported within the Educational Program
Activities do not focus solely on the child or the direct provision of educational materials, but involve community participation – including volunteer educators/teachers, parents, community members.
Beyond the precariousness of financial means, we want to inspire a change of mentality regarding the importance of education in the development of a sustainable society.
A new step toward the future
09.01.2023 – 31.01.2024
The project is carried out in partnership with Cummins Generator Technologies Romania with the support of GlobalGiving
The project aims to contribute long term to increasing the employment opportunities of young people who are part of the Adina Stiftelsen Foundation community. Specific objectives:
• Increasing the active participation of at least 20 young people aged 9-16 in activities that develop digital skills by organizing weekly robotics workshops.
• Increasing the active participation of at least 20 young people aged 9-16 in the activities of the RoboMech Adina team, including participation in the First Lego League Romania competition.
• At least 15 girls participating in the activities.
Project activities:
• promotes active participation in society by working with real-world problems
• promote projects where children/young people organize and work on the project from start to finish by themselves. The coach is the guide and the children/youth do the work.
• promotes non-formal learning (learning outside the school system) Children/youth learn to apply science, technology, engineering and math concepts by using their imagination to solve a problem while having fun.
• promotes media literacy, critical thinking, youth initiatives and social competence.
• develops teamwork skills, basic STEM applications and even presentation skills as they have to present their solutions with a touch of creativity to the judges.
• promotes empowerment and advocacy activities
AFS lavender project for women’s empowerment
01.08.2022 – 31.07.2023
The project is carried out in partnership with Cummins Generator Technologies Romania with the support of GlobalGiving
This project aims to develop attitudes and skills that can change the mentality of rural women and awaken the entrepreneurial spirit using the resources at hand through cultivating the land.
At least 15 women will regularly participate in the following activities:
- Basic information on setting up a lavender farm
- Land preparation and planting of 800 lavender cuttings in the yard of Adina Home
- Valorization of the lavender culture by making and selling hand-made products.
The skills acquired during the project will inspire women to either find a job or start a local business.
We thus hope to motivate each of them to become the best version of themselves, using their potential, setting their own goals and building a different future.