The Adina Stiftelsen Foundation is a social, apolitical and non-governmental organization established in Craiova in 2004, as a result of the initiative of the Norwegian humanitarian organization Adina Stiftelsen.
Since 2007, the foundation has been carrying out only educational programs aimed at facilitating access to education, improving skills and developing the personality of children and young people from disadvantaged families in rural areas of Dolj County.
We are the only NGO, among those focused on education, exclusively specialized in non-formal integrated educational activities for children and young people – from kindergarten to the labor market – through the development of vocation-based skills and abilities.
Knowledge is power.
The Romanian expression shows that the odds of those who are educated are higher when it comes to decent living conditions. Furthermore, those who have been educated can help those who have not.
The ADINA Foundation is motivated by compassion, generosity and care for others.
Apart from food, water and shelter, people need education, a basic necessity in life and an essential element for safety. We don’t differentiate ourselves by being “the best” or “the first”, but by the fact that we care the most, we care truly.
Mission
We train people through a holistic approach, constantly providing them with educational support - non-formal integrated educational programs, based on skills and talents - from kindergarten to the labor market, through the development of skills and competences.
Vision
All children and young people in vulnerable situations can become active and independent members of society.
Our values
Responsibility: making a priority of the individual needs of vulnerable children, young people and women
Non-discrimination: fwe are all one
Professionalism: we have relevant expertise and tangible results and we benefit from the know-how of the best professionals in education
Respect for diversity and human dignity
Non-discrimination: fwe are all one
Professionalism: we have relevant expertise and tangible results and we benefit from the know-how of the best professionals in education
Respect for diversity and human dignity
Name and visual identity
Our logo represents the meaning and purpose of the existence of the Adina Foundation: the adult who supports the child in need. A human being who cares about another human being and helps them in the long run. This describes exactly what we do at the foundation: constantly integrated educational support for vulnerable children/youngsters and their families.
We are called the Adina Foundation as a tribute to Adina for her involvement, dedication and efforts in a multitude of cases of child HIV-AIDS patients from Dolj County, but at the same time we thought of all the people from all over the world who show daily involvement, effort and sacrifice for their peers.
Thus, by extension, the proper name “Adina” became, for us, a common noun, “adina” meaning precisely a person who cares about people and constantly does good things for people.
Nowadays, the name is mostly worn by women, and for our foundation it was a great fit because this name represents us both in meaning and as an identification with an extraordinary person, whom we know and admire.
At the same time, Adina is the name of a great warrior from the tribe of the Reubenites, a man who showed a lot of courage, an important leader who helped King David in battle (Paralipomena I, chapter 11, verse 42). The Hebrew name translates as distinguished man, pleasant, refined, full of qualities.
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1754 children, youngsters and women have been or are still supported by the Adina Stiftelsen Foundation, and on June 9, 2022, we inaugurated Adina Home – a brand new building, specially designed and built to house the specific activities of all the programs run by the foundation.
The Adina Stiftelsen Foundation runs programs aimed at facilitating access to education, improving skills and developing the personality of children and young people from disadvantaged families living in the rural areas of Dolj County. At the same time, the Foundation has created and currently develops programs for women at risk, because we don’t look with just our eyes at the communities we reach, but also with our minds and hearts. This is because we are interested in improving the life situations of as many people as possible.
Since 2007, we have focused exclusively on educational programs because our members understood that prevention without education does not really exist, on the one hand, and on the other hand, that the poverty level of an area can be decreased if the education level of as many people as possible is increased.
137 children/youngsters infected with HIV/AIDS or who came from families with socio-economic difficulties, were helped by the foundation within the “Sponsorship Program”.
At the same time, the foundation took under its wing the children of the Padea Preventorium, preventing the closure of that medical assistance unit. The “Padea Program” meant that the foundation helped 35 children who came from families with members infected with TB.
It all started in Norway in the early 2000s. In a high school where both young people and their parents were involved in a volunteering project to support children affected by HIV-AIDS. The father of one of the students wanted to do more for the project, so he came to Craiova, Romania to meet the sick children. Once he arrived and understood how great the children’s needs were, he set out to get involved in the long-term – with food, medicine, clothing, shoes – so he returned to Norway and looked for people to help him constantly and consistently. He found them, returned to Romania and got to work.
Everything we have built in the educational area (the 7 Programs), from 2007 until today, has been and still is designed to include several age and social categories, people we support from the time they are in kindergarten until they can take their lives in their own hands. A common element of all programs is that we always pay attention to the vocations of these people. Another common denominator is the fact that all our beneficiaries belong to vulnerable categories. The seven programs – developed in collaboration with the Norwegian partners – that we have built in a structured way emphasize our experience, which we have acquired within the partnerships in Norway, and also from the transfer of know-how from the Adina Norway Foundation and, starting with 2014, from Stiftelsen Kirkens Bymisjon Bergen.
1. Adina Educational Program – din anul 2007
2. Adina Afterschool – din anul 2008
3. Adina Open Kindergarten – din anul 2014
4. Home Start – din anul 2014
5. Adina Home – din anul 2020
6. Adina V13 (pentru tineri) – din anul 2021
7. Adina EMPO (pentru femei) – din anul 2021
