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“Learning of non-transportable children”, 1999-2000, with financial support of
Dutch Cooperation Foundations for Eastern and Central Europe

Education and instruction for the non-transportable children with mobility impairments, hospitalized children or children with special needs

School at home. Education and instruction of non-transportable children with mobility impairements

There are non-transportable children with mobility impairments who are not able to attend any of the education modules or, even if they are, they do it sporadically, between treatments or hospitalizations. Even though legislation refers to their right to be taught at home, the schools provide teachers for them only sporadically. The main argument: there are not enough teachers. In fact, teachers are not interested to do this, because it is a non-compulsory activity and the payment is very low. They prefer to carry out other extra-school activities, which are well paid (for example, private lessons for healthy children coming from families with financial possibilities)

Aiming to respond to this necessities we have organized for them school at home.

Beneficiaries : 6-12 non-transportable children (depending on the project), 7-19 years old including illiterated ones

Activities :

•  elementary instruction - training sessions (2 hrs 3 time in a week), including literacy where the case is

• development of their skills and aptitudes (painting, music etc.)

• social integration. They have been brought to the scholar festivities held on the occasion of Christmas, Easter, Child's Day, birthdays at Marie Curie Hospital . They have met both hospitalised children and pupils in an ordinary school and they performed together songs and poems. They have experienced unique and very special moments, totally different from their isolated existence.
• an individualized curriculum was developed according to the needs of each of the beneficiaries . Our auxiliary didactic materials were also used.
• the beneficiaries have been surveyed by marking on special psycho-pedagogical observation records their evolution and progress on the intellectual, language and volitive-atitudinal level
• The link with the families and also their psycho-pedagogical counseling was assured

Results:

• the pupils have been registered in state school.
• at the end of the school year they have been passed tests and have achieved graduating certificates, according to their training.

New possibilities of knowledge and study by mean their own forces have been opened for all them. The pupils became more optimistic and new possibilities of social and professional integration have been opened for them.

This activity has been carried out based on the following projects:

•  “Learning of non-transportable children”, 1999-2000, with financial support of Dutch Cooperation Foundations for Eastern and Central Europe

•  “Itinerant teachers”, 2000-2001, with the financial support of Romanian Smile Appeal

•  “Integration of the disabled children in regular school”, 2001-2002, with the financial support of the State Secretary of the Persons with a Handicap”

School in hospital

There are children in Bucharest (of course, not only) with chronic diseases, recurrently hospitalized or requiring a long hospitalization period. The reiterated interruption of the continuous scholar activity for weeks or months makes impossible the recovery of the knowledge which meantime the teachers teach at school. And more important, the pupils lose the skill to read, write, learn and think. This fact has severe consequences, at the risk of remaining for the second year in the same class or even to abandon school. Besides that, the spectrum of a scholar failure produces a stress in the pupil's psychic, a fact that has dangerous consequences on the psychical resistance to the disease.

Beneficiaries : about 850 children, 7-16 years old (450 of the Fundeni Hospital and 395 of the Marie Curie Hospital ).

Activities : instructive-educational program, Monday – Friday, 14-16 hr; the program “A day for my heart” on Saturday

Results :

• All the pupils have got good scholar results during the hospitalisation period.
• The connection with their basic schools and their families has been maintained. Coming back home the children have succeeded to restore in an active manner to the school program.
• Discussions with children, their families and the medical personnel has revealed that the isolation experienced along the hospitalisation period has no longer been felt as intensively as usual and they become more optimistic about their recovering.

This activity has been carried out based on the project:

•  “Learning of non-transportable children”, 1999-2000, with financial support of Dutch Cooperation Foundations for Eastern and Central Europe

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