To illustrate America’s presence throughout Romania, not just via the US Government, the American Embassy launched the MAP Project June 2, 2011. Each month the Embassy will profile an American working in Romania. Leslie Hawke is profiled in June

The Alex Fund was the beneficiary of an exciting theatrical production of Zalmoxis, directed by Romanian-American playwright Cristina Bejan at Georgetown University. This mystical play, written in 1921 by the famous Romanian philosopher and writer Lucian Blaga, is also a sharp political commentary, keenly relevant to contemporary life.

Thanks to Alex Fund donors, OvidiuRo and the Romanian Ministry of Education have invited all Romanian mayors to apply for grants to help them get every poor child in their community, age 3-6, into preschool and kindergarten. This is the second year of this initiative, in which parents qualify for 12 euros a month in food coupons if their children have perfect attendance. Last year 1,300 children in 19 communities participated.

The Alex Fund supports the Fiecare Copil in Gradinita (“Every Child in Preschool”) program in Romania.  One of the primary tools used to get poor parents to send their children to school every day is to offer food coupons in exchange for the children’s perfect attendance. In April, 1057 children in 19 communities had perfect […]

Thanks to The Alex Fund, last fall OvidiuRo started offering food coupons to poor parents whose children had 100% attendance in preschool classes. Since then the number of children qualifying for the coupons has increased to 1082 (out of 1289 who were eligible). Teacher involvement and parent incentives make the difference! We are committed to […]