THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE, informs us:

Wednesday, 1 September 2010, 11.00 o’clock a.m., the project Chose School! 2 will be officially launched at the Patriarchal Palace within a press conference. The Romanian Patriarchate will implement the project in partnership with World Vision Romania Foundation.

In 2009, the Romanian Patriarchate and World Vision Romania initiated the project entitled Choose School! 1 (implemented till 2010 in 10 eparchies of the Metropolitan See of Muntenia and Dobrudgea), in order to prevent school abandonment and juvenile delinquency through the development of some alternate educational solutions type Sunday School necessary for motivating the children’s education in the rural and urban areas for ages from 6 to 16.

Choose School! 2 represents the extention at national level of the Choose School! 1 project to be implemented in the country, in the other eparchies of the Romanian Patriarchate.

The main activities consist in the specific formation (within 145 sessions) of 2000 priests and religion professors involved in preventing the school abandonment in order to develop work with children and psycho-pedagogical abilities, organise Sunday School education for about 18,000 children in the rural and urban areas, 144 creation camps with the participation of over 6,000 children and a national contest with religious themes rewarded with prizes.

Choose School! 2 project will be implemented for three years (2010 – 2013), having been co-financed from the European Social Fund through the Districtual Operation Programme for Developing Human Resources 2007-2013, Priority Axis 2, Major Field of Intervention 2.2

For further information please contact:
Rev. Costin Naclad – Director for Faith and Development, World Vision Romania & Programme Coordinator “Choose School!2”
Tel. 0731 444 632, email constantin_naclad@wvi.org
Rev. Constantin Stoica – Press Office of the Romanian Patriarcahte
Tel. 0722615 606, email presa@patriarhia.ro