
Acasa & Deborah
Two homes for children & youth, Romania
The Childrens Home, Acasa, lies on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania. It is a large area with several houses. 3 homes where children ages 3-18 live, a house with 24 rooms, each with its own bath, where 18 years old move to when they are too old to live in the childrens homes and a daycare center for children that live in the neighborhood that need a place to get away from the chaotic, poor, alcoholic and often violent homes they live in.
Deborah lies in a city called Arad, in the north of Romania. 14 children live in this home, and the director of the home is called "mami" by the children. It is not only a nickname, but it is how the children actually think of her.




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Gradistea & House of Joy

These Teen Challenge Centers, one for males and one for females
wish to help men, women, boys and girls that are in different situations in their lives be free from life-controlling dependencies. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, prostitution, human trafficking, violence and crime have taken over the lives of the people we meet at these centers. The team that works there have all had a similar past, some have received help...

Pre-schools

Pre-schools in Faculteta, Bulgaria
In a little district on the outskirts of Bulgaria's capitol, Sofia, there is a slum area called Fakulteta. There are close to 60 000 Gypsies living here that are severly segregated and discriminated against by their fellow countryman. In many ways, these people are left to fend for themselves and try to build a sustainable and healthy life without much needed financial help from the...

Outreach

Frantz Johansen and his wife, Berit S.Johansen, started this work after meeting the many children living in the sewage pipes in Bucharest in 1991.
Outreach is about building relationships and trust, before you can start to help. In the beginning most of the work was on the streets, down in the sewage pipes and in the slum. You will also find us there today, with the same goal of...
