Disaster Response Romania Project #55605

Help for Ukrainian refugees

by Te Aud Romania

Project Report | Feb 13, 2023
Welcome 2023

By Gabriela Popescu | Project Leader

Dear Supporter,

Here we are, at the start of 2023, with new thoughts, goals and ambitions. Unfortunately, we are still faced with an armed conflict so close to our borders and as such, our focus is still shifted towards how we can better integrate Ukrainian refugee children within the community.

For a period of three months, courtesy of United Way, over 400 persons, both children and their families, mostly mothers, have participated in sessions aimed at addressing emotional wellbeing, empathy and trauma healing. Integration without borders has reached completion at the beginning of December, and now we are looking ahead.

Leadership Together

Te Aud Romania launches Leadership Together in partnership with Beyond Sport Foundation, a project which aims to equip sport technicians with much required abilities in order to further promote the role of sport and enhance its part in building a better future. Since the conflict in Ukraine, the region has seen large numbers of Ukrainian families come to the area. Funds will be used to support the training of new sports coaches and a network of volunteers from local sports organisations to help them better support refugee young people.

Our focus is to address sport volunteers as well as sport technicians at the same time, who are dedicating time and energy to deliver sport programs to vulnerable children and youth.The training includes several modules, such as sport for social good, sport for social impact, how to work with children and youth with PTSD, as well as vulnerable groups and PR & Communication in sports.

The entire course will be delivered over a 3-month period, with a minimum of six eight-hour sessions or 12 four-hour sessions, depending on participant availability.

At the same time, we continue to focus our attention on delivering specific programs and trainings for intercultural exchange. a full report on our work supporting Ukraine has been attached to this report.

Thank you.

Gabriela

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TAR Autumn Activities

By Gabriela Popescu | Project Leader

Jun 9, 2022
Making rugby proud

By Gabriela Popescu | Project Leader

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!

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