Counselling for 300 children in Romania

What we have been up to this summer

Mini Rugby for All

15 teams all over Romania (U8, U10, U12) participated at the national tournament organised by the Rugby Federation in Gura Humorului at the end of July.

Rugby Club Gura Humorului

The start of the second half of the season saw four new young players within the team. Marian and Mihai-Iulian, two of our Rugby for all mentees, part of Rugby CSS Gura Humorului, have made the step to senior rugby; alongside Matei, who plays for CSA Steaua junior U19 team.

At the same time, we welcome our first international player from South Africa – Rohan, who had an amazing debut against Suceava, scoring one of our tries, alongside Sebi and Claudiu.

Rugby for All

We are currently receiving submissions for 2022-2023 season. Teenagers between 14-17 years old are welcomed to develop their own skills at the highest degree.

Creative Writing Summer Camp

At the beginning of August, over 35 teenagers from Suceava county’s child protection services took part in a creative writing summer camp. For 5 days, the participants worked around the pandemic theme, writing down their feelings and thoughts on how they handled the situation. The result is going to be a collective brochure of feelings and experiences during the last two years, courtesy of DGASPC Suceava and Suceava County Council.

Over 6 months of war

Te Aud Romania has offered logistical, financial and humanitarian support over 900.000 Euros, ever since the Ukrainian refugee crisis has started. All of this was made possible with support from individual donors, as well as a high number of national and international partners that have joined our endeavours.

As a charity focused on non-formal educational programs for children, we will work alongside national and international partners to develop medium to long term solutions to integrate Ukrainian refugee children within the community and provide a safe and appropriate environment to alleviate the pain and grow. The start of the new school year comes with several challenges for these kids, so if you want to get involved, please reply to this email to work along.

TAR have now distributed the 10,000 backpacks from Packed with Hope campaign. Together, we have reached souls and delivered smiles all across Romania and Ukraine.

Sneak Peak into our coming month

September 2022 means new school year, new projects and a lot of surprises: stay tuned to see what’s on.

Mass Media Overview

We shared a series of opinions for Ziare.com on what war means and the impact of our programme, but also partnerships with other NGOs who work with refugees and for whom we provided the backpacks, such as Hope and Homes for Children.

Links:

• Packed with Hope
• Cooperation for education

Rugby Club Gura Humorului

For the first time, Rugby Club Gura Humorului’s match on the 4th June was live on Romanian national TV channel TVR1, starting 12:00. This is our first nationally broadcast match, bringing alongside it a lot of pressure and emotion for everyone involved.

In the next couple of weeks, we will face some of the toughest teams in Romania and our main priority is providing our supporters with good rugby, our players with improvement opportunities, with our player welfare in mind at all times.

Rugby for All

For Rugby for All, May meant several personal development meetings and a series of victories: U19 team gained 4th place nationally, while 8 of the players came out on the 3rd place nationally at U17.

Mini Rugby for All

Over May 2022, we continued with financial education workshops in several schools across Suceava county. Furthermore, we organized two tournaments, one at the beginning of May, with over 100 children, and the other is happening right now, for over 500 children.

Over 3 months of war 

TAR has offered logistical, financial and humanitarian support over 900,000 Euros ever since the Ukrainian refugee crisis has started. All of this was made possible with support from individual donors, as well as a high number of national and international partners that have joined our endeavours. 

As a charity focused on non-formal educational programs for children, we will work alongside national and international partners to develop medium to long term integration solutions to integrate Ukrainian refugee children within the community and provide a safe and appropriate environment to alleviate the pain.

Besides offering backpacks with essentials from both School in a Bag and Packed with Hope initiatives, we also organised the first swimming competition with both Romanian and Ukrainian children.  

Mass-media overview

The initiative Packed with Hope was mentioned on the front page of Financial Times, and we talked with BBC Radio 4 about our activities regarding Ukrainian refugees.

Furthermore, several national TV stations have mentioned the importance of rugby and our work in Gura Humorului, for both children and Rugby Club Gura Humorului team.

Sneak peak into June 

June 2022 will continue with the distribution of our fully equipped schoolbags in schools in Ukraine. 

Steps towards the future program takes place in several schools to encourage children to discover more about themselves.

We are also in the process of organising a series of summer events = for both Ukrainian refugees and children from our communities: sport events and International Summer Camp, amongst others.  

All of this was made possible with your support! Thank you! 

Links:

• News interview on our first national rugby broadcast
• About rugby for social impact