{"id":48041,"date":"2021-10-02T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T20:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.documentaria.ro\/content\/?p=48041"},"modified":"2021-10-08T06:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T06:21:46","slug":"gabriela-english-version-adrian-catu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.documentaria.ro\/content\/archives\/48041","title":{"rendered":"Gabriela (English version) \/ Adrian C\u00e2tu"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”100″ back_image=”48043″ back_position=”center bottom” overlay_color=”accent” overlay_alpha=”0″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”SUS”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_horizontal=”left” position_vertical=”middle” overlay_alpha=”25″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”5″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”5″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”70″ position_vertical=”middle” align_horizontal=”align_center” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][uncode_share layout=”multiple” no_back=”yes” title=”SHARE”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”65″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]Gabriela has saved up 3 lei for a doll. In two months\u2019 time, she aims to collect 97 lei more and thus save up the amount she needs for the doll she wants.<\/span><\/p>\n

She made this plan at the financial education workshop held at the Community Center in Carani, Timi\u0219 County, which is part of the\u201c Nesting a brighter future for children\u201d program, implemented by the United Way Foundation and funded by the Globalworth Foundation. Other kids have other wishes. A phone. A pen. A Barbie doll. A football pitch. Books, an iPhone, a ball, a football cup. A poney, a drone, a real horse. Each child writes down the object of their desire on a sheet of paper. Then, they draw it and write why they want it: \u201cto play,\u201d to invest,\u201d \u201cbecause it\u2019s helpful for me in school.\u201d They write down the price and estimate the number of weeks they need to be able to gather the amount they lack, after assessing their preexistent savings. The kids are very active in this class and each one of them is eager to talk about their plan and motivation.<\/p>\n

Before the activity, the children washed their hands and had the snack provided at the center. Alexandra Bechira, the workshop coordinator, first introduced them to the history of money. Then, they roleplayed bartering. They exchanged a pair of scissors for a glue stick, two pencils for an eraser, a hand disinfectant for a pen. At the end, they also solved a crossword puzzle on the same topic. \u201cBut when do we get to do more math?\u201d, the kids ask.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since this is the first meeting at the center after the International Children\u2019s Day, Alexandra hands out diplomas and red balloons. They can take them home and this news generates a wave of noisy glee. A balloon pops and several kids volunteer to give the girl their own balloons to the girl left without.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”85″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_gallery el_id=”gabriela087967″ medias=”48022,48023,48024,48025″ gutter_size=”3″ media_items=”media|lightbox|original,icon,caption” screen_lg=”1000″ screen_md=”600″ screen_sm=”480″ single_text=”under” single_width=”10″ single_overlay_opacity=”50″ single_image_anim=”no” single_padding=”1″ single_text_reduced=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”65″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][vc_column_text]The Carani Community Center is part of the \u201cNesting a brighter future for children\u201d. Its main mission is to prevent school dropouts by involving the entire community and creating a sustainable network of children, parents, and teachers. Each week, the children take part in informal activities, share a meal, and are supported with the necessary materials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe organize activities in a more playful and more interesting manner than in school, specifically to increase their motivation for learning. We also touch upon career orientation, go on trips, do drama, dance, sports. For instance, we took all the kids in Timi\u0219 to a fire prevention company. They would have us over each month and teach them resuscitation maneuvers, what to do in case of a fire, how to use the extinguisher,\u201d explains Ada Gabor, area manager.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Parents\u2019 Academy was implemented for the parents. Under the slogan \u201cInvolved parents, confident children,\u201d talks and activities are held, concerning positive communication with the child and kids\u2019 needs. Teachers also take part in workshops and reading clubs, which offer them additional tools for working with children in underprivileged families.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”100″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ back_image=”48027″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”25″ position_vertical=”middle” align_horizontal=”align_center” override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”5″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”5″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”65″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][vc_column_text]Gabriela is in the first grade and she\u2019s been taking part in the program from the very beginning, in 2017. In turn, two other girls who share a house with Gabriela and her parents have joined the program. Carmen is the oldest of them – she\u2019s 13-years-old and a foster. Bianca is a niece of theirs whose mother died, so Gabriela\u2019s parents also took her up as a foster. The younger Larisa also lives with them – her parents work in Timi\u0219oara and don’t have the time to take her to school and care for her.The girls\u2019 mother tells her the process of adaptation was difficult, when she took them in. For Carmen in particular, as she had suffered from stress for a long time, because of the many changes and lacks in their lifestyle, as well as the numerous uncertainties.<\/span><\/p>\n

The girls head home together after the activity at the center. It\u2019s not far away. The \u2018home\u2019 is more of a 1960s building that once housed offices, behind some grain warehouses. Now abandoned, it was provided to them as temporary accommodation by the company wher the father works as a guard.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”85″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_gallery el_id=”gabriela965656″ medias=”48028,48029,48031,48032,48033,48034″ gutter_size=”3″ media_items=”media|lightbox|original,icon,caption” screen_lg=”1000″ screen_md=”600″ screen_sm=”480″ single_text=”under” single_width=”10″ single_overlay_opacity=”50″ single_image_anim=”no” single_padding=”1″ single_text_reduced=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”65″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][vc_column_text]Gabriela hugs her mother. Then, the girls go outside. They play on the swings. They jump rope and play air pingpong. They\u2019ve got rabbits, cats, chickens. Corina finds three eggs and carries them inside the house on the palms of her hands, taking small steps. I ask her how the online activities went during the pandemic. \u201cI wasn\u2019t that happy.\u201d Her mother is also relieved school is back in person. \u201cIt\u2019s good they don\u2019t spend so much time staring at the phone; they play among themselves, they talk, do sports.\u201d In the beginning of the pandemic, all the children enrolled in the United Way program received either a tablet or a laptop, to avoid interrupting the activities. Now, the only online meetings are the weekly ones with Eliza, who helps the kids with their homework.<\/span><\/p>\n

After they come back inside, Gabriela rinses a bowl and empties a bag of corn puffs in. She seems to caress them with the tips of her fingers, then takes one. She swirls it in the air like an airplane and shoves it in her mouth with amusement. She then extends the bowl to Larisa and they talk about homework, classmates, and savings with their mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEven if you\u2019re a cleaning lady or a shepherd, you still need to study.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone comes in and asks for 20 kilos of cheese\u2026\u201d Corina adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, yeah, you have to know additions, give the person what they asked for, give them their change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly, Gabriela stands up from her seat by the corn puff bowl and rummages her backpack. \u201cLook,\u201d she tells her mother, showing her the diploma she got at the center and looking at her with a mix of pride and caution. But the mother smiles widely and makes a faint gesture towards her. Gabriela jumps into her arms. Today was a good day.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”100″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ back_image=”48021″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”25″ position_vertical=”middle” align_horizontal=”align_center” override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”5″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”5″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_color=”color-gyho” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”65″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_column_text]*the names of children pictured in this story have been changed, to protect their identity<\/em><\/p>\n

Documenting this material was made possible through the help of the\u00a0<\/span>United Way Foundation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the financial support of the\u00a0<\/span>Globalworth Foundation<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“Nesting a brighter future for children”<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is one of the main educational\u00a0programmes\u00a0undertaken by United Way Rom\u00e2nia. Its core goal is to support 12 day centers founded by United Way Rom\u00e2nia, which work as community hubs.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The program, funded by\u00a0<\/span>the Globalworth Foundation<\/span><\/a>, prevents school dropouts in poor urban and rural communities, where the children\u2019s education is not the top priority, but rather the daily struggle to find the necessary resources for survival. Its integrated approach consists of actions focusing on the child\u2019s needs. Parents, teachers, volunteers, and local NGOs work together to solve the issue of school dropouts, which is not the child\u2019s problem, but the problem of the entire community.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The 12 community centers in Urla\u021bi, Fundulea, B\u0103icoi, Jilava, P\u0103dureni, Cluj-Napoca (Pata-R\u00e2t), Timi\u0219oara (School no. 20) and 5 communes in county Timi\u0219 (S\u00e2nandrei, Ma\u0219loc, Carani, \u0218emlacu Mare and Bucov\u0103\u021b), have benefitted 2,700 children, 2,160 parents and 540 teachers, throughout the program\u2019s five-year span, in over 1,700 educational activities.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_color=”color-xsdn” overlay_alpha=”90″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ row_name=”TEXT”][vc_column column_width_percent=”70″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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