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| France presse – Kindergarten is key to fight Roma poverty | 86% of kids qualified for food coupons |
“Storks and swallows,” the kindergartners in this Transylvanian village cry out when asked what birds arrive in springtime, then proudly count to 20 – unaware they are part of an experiment to help Roma children beat the odds of a life mired in poverty.
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Once again The Alex Fund helped to bring 1200 severely impoverished Romanian children to preschool and kindergarten every school day in March. Our Romanian partner NG |
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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.
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