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OvidiuRo and GSK Romania will run local projects to improve health living conditions of 18 poor communities	The World Bank’s new report on early education featured OvidiuRo
GlaxoSmithKline and the Alex Fund’s sister organization, OvidiuRo, launched a 3-year partnership project on June 6 to improve health conditions of preschool children and their mothers in 18 poor rural Romanian communities.	Fiecare Copil in Gradinita was cited as a model program for integrating deprived children into the education system at an early age – when it will make the most difference. Read the full report: “Toward an Equal Start: Closing the early learning gap for Roma Children in Eastern Europe”.
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Since 2001, The Alex Fund has supported educational opportunity for the poorest of the poor in Romania, predominantly but not exclusively Roma children. The Alex Fund primarily supports Fiecare Copil în Grădiniţă (Every Child In Preschool & Kindergarten), a program founded by Romanian educator Maria Gheorghiu and American Leslie Hawke. Roma children start school late, attend sporadically, and do not acquire the basic skills needed for success in school. Attempts to help them catch up prove ineffective, but when children enroll at 3 or 4 and attend daily, success rates are much higher. Modest incentives in the form of food coupons have proven extremely effective in getting impoverished families to register pre-schoolers and take them to school every day. The program, which today serves more than 1400 children, provides food coupons tied to perfect attendance in gradinita plus classroom materials and teacher training.