Description
The project aims to implement new integrated services in 93 rural communities in Iasi county in order to prevent school drop-out and to increase school attendance for at least 1070 (268 Roma) children considered at high risk of leaving school due to poverty, family issues and isolation. The project creates an innovative integrated model developed in a public-private partnership where the children will receive support through the creation of 10 types of non-formal activities designed to encourage and increase their capacity to learn in school, to make the schools more friendly and to increase the school attendance. 1070 parents (268 Roma ethnics) will be supported to improve the methods for helping their children, 1023 teachers will be supported in identifying best models and techniques of helping the children with school problems, in order to overcome the risk situations. The project is a pilot programme that can be replicated in other schools in similar situations.
Summary of project results
The project is a public-private partnership, between Iasi County School Inspectorate as Project Promoter and a local NGO as Partner and is based on the need for preventing school drop out in rural comunities. The project implemented new integrated services in 104 schools from Iasi county (including kindergarden), in order to prevent school drop-out and to increase school attendance for 1538 (442 Roma) children considered at high risk of leaving school due to poverty, family issues and isolation. The project created an innovative integrated model developed in a public-private partnership where the children received support through by creating 10 types of non-formal activities designed to encourage and increase their capacity to learn in school, to make the schools more friendly and to increase the school attendance. 1538 parents (442 Roma ethnics) were supported to improve the methods for helping their children, 925 teachers were supported in identifying best models and techniques of helping the children with school problems, in order to overcome the risk situations. The project is a pilot programme that can be replicated in other schools in similar situations. The partnership contributed at improving the social inclusion for children at risk of dropping out through reducing school absenteeism and increasing school attendance, developing organizational capacity of 104 educational institutions with the highest dropout rate in rural areas of Iasi County, providing support services to those children and their families, and through information campaigns. This project also achived the objectif of developing capacity by training the human resources in the scholar institutions involved and by providing equipments for 79 schools and 25 kindergarden.
Summary of bilateral results