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After the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Ceaușescu regime Fr. Georg Sporschill SJ was sent to Bucharest by his Order in 1991. There he took care of the many abandoned children on the streets and founded CONCORDIA social projects. A house on Piață Concordiei, Concordia Square, is the name given to the still young social organisation.
Over time CONCORDIA opened several houses where children grow up in family-like communities, social centres and the first training workshops for young people. Starting in 2004, family & social centres were established in several villages in the…
Wegweiser-freiwilligenarbeit.com is the independent portal in German language for flexible and responsible volunteering abroad. They strive to make the volunteering sector better and help organisations who have a positive impact recruit more German speaking volunteers, and motivate the others to become better.
Zefie is a care-focused organisation that provides individual, tailor-made support to strengthen children and families. Their work falls into three main areas:
- Care in crisis: Zefie recruit and train foster families to provide emergency foster care placements for children. They also respond to the arrival of unaccompanied minor refugees.
- Longer-term care: Zefie have a number of houses in residential areas where teenagers live together in small groups, with a dedicated support worker. For older teenagers and young people Zefie organise flatshares and…
The research project, called Hestia after the Greek goddess of home and family, aims to discover the nature and impact of variations in child protection systems through a comparison of three different welfare states. The research will compare:
- the ways child protection measures are negotiated, legitimized and perceived
- their impact on children
- the relationship between national policy, thresholds for intervention and social justice
- the rhetoric in child protection policy and practice, locating this within the wider child welfare policy framework…
The Children’s Unit at the Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat (CBSS) aims to create safe and secure environment for children in the Baltic Sea Region by initiating projects and cooperation on child rights and child protection issues, including out of home care for children, in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond.