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Fifth Regional Meeting of NGO children's rights coalitions in Europe
Save the Children Romania is organizing the fifth Regional Meeting of NGO Children's Rights Coalitions in Europe, in Bucharest, on 27th - 30th October 2008. We expect to take part in the event 100 representatives of the civil society from 20 European countries, all involved in the process of making sure that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is well applied. Among the topics to be discussed we mention: monitoring of the rights of the child, the cooperation between the nongovernmental organizations relating to the children's rights issue, advocacy, mainly the prohibition of the corporal punishments and all humiliating treatments upon children.
You will find enclosed the Invitation, the draft Agenda and the Final Report 2005 of the last meeting in Brussels. The invitation includes a link to a pre-registration form, to be completed by 15th July 2008, 6 pm CET, with suggestions and comments upon the topics. Immediately after that, the final registration form will be filled in with data regarding the accommodation and meals fees. The deadline for fill in the form is 15th September 2008, 6 pm CET.
The meeting is taking place at Best Western Parc Hotel, 3 - 5 Poligrafiei Bvd., 1st district.
All the discussions shall be in English.
National Forum of Children and Youth
Save the Children Organization, in partnership with the Group at High Level for Children in Romania, the National Authority for the Protection of Children's Rights, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, is organizing in Bucharest, during the 2nd and 5th of June 2008, the National Forum of Children and Youth, event that has as a target the encouragement of children and youth involvement in the decision - making process regarding the issues that concern them directly. The event brings together 70 young people, volunteers and beneficiaries of our programmes, aged 14 - 18, from Bucharest and the other 13 counties of Romania. The participants shall take part in debates on the policies meant to prevent and fight violence towards them and activities included in the Operational Plan for the implementation of the National Strategy in the protection and promotion of children's rights of the National Authority for the Protection of Children's Rights.
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Global Campaign for Education - The Biggest Lesson
More then 30.000 Romanian pupils of different ages have participated on the 23rd April to the "Biggest Lesson" in the world, together with other 5 million kids from more then 100 countries. The event was coordinated worldwide by the Global Campaign for Education (GCR), a global coalition of charity and civic organizations and organized by Save the Children Romania at national level. It is a global record in an attempt to raise the public attention on the necessity to assure free quality education for everybody. The President Traian Basescu joined Save the Children to one of these lessons, moderated by the Romanian Television star, Monica Ghiurco. The lesson took place at the National College "Spiru Haret" in Bucharest. It brought together children and teachers, representatives of the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, of the School Inspectorate of Bucharest and of the International Labor Organization, which were also Save the Children partners in taking charge of this event. The GCR aims at putting a pressure on the decision makers and politicians to be more involved in taking stronger measures to develop quality education and to decline the school drop out. The GCE promotes the right of every person to benefit from quality learning, emphasizing the needs of the disabled persons and the necessity of making further efforts to guarantee the inclusive education for them.
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The new president of Save the Children Romania is Ana Maria Mihaescu
The General Assembly of Save the Children Members has chosen on the 19th April a new Steering Committee and a new President - Ana Maria Mihaescu, the representative of the World Bank division for Romania and Moldavia (IFC). The members have also chosen Mihai Gafencu, a paediatrist physician, in the position of vice-president of Save the Children.
Mrs Mihaescu has been working in the field of banking and global development policies, for 17 years, ranking this year the first position in „Top Capital - 100 most successful women". Save the Children Romania has been benefiting form her support for more than 2 years.
Ana Maria Mihaescu will lead the Steering Committee of Save the Children, which is also comprising Andi Moisescu ( TV producer), Tereza Munteanu ( (managing director Y&R), Barry Clarke (former president of Save the Children Great Britain and International Save the Children Alliance and international advisor in the field of corporatist development) Liviu Sfrija (president of Henkel Romania), Camelia Iordache (chairman of Save the Children branch in Suceava), Mihai Gafencu (chairman of Timisoara's branch), Maricica Manole (chairman of Iasi's branch) and Gabriela Alexandrescu ( executive president of Save the Children Romania)
Rewrite the future
The global movement „Rewrite the future", developed by the International Save the Children Alliance has set its goal for 2010 to assure the quality education for 8 million children in fragile conflict affected states. In the framework of this campaign, Save the Children Romania and the Foundation for Development of the Civil Society, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have organized the national conference "The International Cooperation for Development - an opportunity for Romania as a Member State of the European Union" on the 17th April. Amongst the key speakers there are Tove Wang, the assistant of the secretary general of Save the Children Norway and president of "Rewrite the future" movement and David Skinner, the director of "Rewrite the future", the International Save the Children Alliance.
March 2008 Report Where the peace begins
Where the peace begins - Summary Report
Financial Report 2007 - Raport financiar Last in line, Last in School
21st March - the International Day for the Fight against Racial Discrimination
SAVE THE CHILDREN's volunteers held educative meetings to promote tolerance and non-discrimination amongst the students and teachers in several schools and high-schools in Bucharest, during 17 and 21 March. Their action aimed at informing the public on the significance of the day of the 21st March, set up by the General Council of the United Nations Organization as the day against racial discrimination. More then 3.000 of pupils have been taught about it by our volunteers. In addition, kids of the refugees in Romania aged between 6 and 17 years have exposed their thematic pictures and photographs in the hall of the Metropolitan Library in Bucharest during that week.
The 21st March was officially celebrated through the event called "21st March - The Soul Has No Colour" organized by SAVE THE CHILDREN inside the library. The representatives of SAVE THE CHILDREN Romania, together with the lecturers from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Organization for the Refugees' Women in Romania, held some speeches in front of the press and the refugee's kids. "The refugee is a person who leaves his country because of the problems, particularly the political ones. He usually doesn't choose the place to go, but runs wherever he can, to get rid of the problems at home", stated on the subject Ohram Kalksa, 18 years old, Kurd refugee.
Parents will learn new methods of educating their children
The day of 19th of October 2007 was declared by the International Save the Children Alliance as the day of fighting violence against children and it is it was marked by various actions in more than 100 countries from all over the world. This is the day Save the Children inaugurated 5 Centers of Resources for Parents in Bucharest, Iasi (Str. C.A. Rosetti nr. 14-16), Suceava (the School of I-VIII grades „Miron Costin" no. 11), Targu Mures (Str. Revolutiei 45) and Timisoara (Calea Sagului nr. 102-104).
The Center of Resources for Parents from Bucharest is functioning in "Miguel de Cervantes" Bilingual High School (Calea Plevnei nr. 38-40). The official opening took place on 19th of October at 11.00.
The Centers have the purpose of facilitating the access for parents to information and training in order to learn methods of non-violent education, to support and counseling for family conflict management;they also aim to create an appropriate environment where parents will be encouraged to share their own experience in raising their children.
In the Annual Report 2006 and theAnnual Report 2005 you can read about the programs carried out by Save the Children Romania.