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 NGO, OvidiuRo, gives poor parents $16 worth of coupons per month when their children have perfect attendance.  Thus, in addition to teaching the little ones their A, B, C’s, we […]

Members of The Alex Fund board gathered for the Annual Meeting on February 27 at the offices of Goulston & Storrs in New York City.

Beginning January 2012, Goulston & Storrs, with offices in Boston, New York, Washington DC and Beijing, offers pro bono legal services to The Alex Fund. Goulston & Storrs represents a diverse range of non-profit organizations and NGOs with both domestic and international operations.

Marilena Andreescu, from Podari, Dolj county, is the first teacher to take a picture of the kids in her kindergarten and send it via MMS

The first national Fiecare Copil in Gradinita Conference took place at the Athénée Palace Hilton in Bucharest on August 31. It brought together mayors, school directors  and general school inspectors as well as the State Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Oana Badea. During a lively discussion, Secretary Badea answered questions related to the new […]

The evening’s highlight was a short concert by pianist Matei Varga, whose virtuosity awed the audience as he shared some of his favorite pieces by Chopin, Bartok and Enescu.

2011 Citizen Award competition was open to Société Générale’s branches from 85 countries. OvidiuRo’s Fiecare Copil in Gradinita (“Every Child in Preschool”) project, submitted by the French bank BRD (Société Générale’s entity in Romania) to this contest, was shortlisted in the top 15.

Last fall 19 communities offered food coupons to parents of impoverished children in exchange for their children’s daily attendance at “gradinita”.

Elisabet Grob, early education specialist from New York, came to Romania to work with the teachers from the 19 impoverished communities where OvidiuRo is implementing Fiecare Copil in Gradinita programs. The trainings are introducing modern methods of working with preschool children.