The charitable association "Jungen Rumänen eine Chance!" (Give young Romanians a chance!) goes back to that first visit at Concordia shortly before Christmas 2003 and will (once it is definitely registered as such, that is, hopefully next week!) owe its creation to every single child belonging to the "Sfintul Ignatiu family", one of Concordia homes. The warm atmosphere created by the educators impressed me each time I visited Sfintul Ignatiu and all these smiling little faces regularly attracted me like a magnet all along my three year stay in Romania.
Our common activities reached from drawing classes, visits to museums, theater, concerts or the opera, treasure hunts through Bucharest, jogging or picknicks in the park, swimming or cooking together.
The enthusiasm of these children, of Romanians in general and in particular of a few Romanians who became close friends, were the motors of our activities. Indeed, not only some foreign friends, but also quite a number of Romanians joined me spontaneously and offered their skills and free time to this cause -a particularly precious gift considering how hard life in Bucharest is: some of them offered free psychological support, homework tutoring, story reading, theater playing or choir singing, or even their vacation time to join us for a summer camp!
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