
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 themselves at our centers, and are living examples of the fact that it's never too late to change the course of your future.




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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...

The Helpful Cow

Self-sustainability
Years of experince in mision and relief work has lead to this idea. It is absolutely necessary to cover the fysiological needs of people living in poverty. But is that enough? Will not the future look the same, with the same worry for tomorrow? We want to see past tomorrow, we want to look to the future. Instead of focusing on the needs and the poverty, we want to...

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...
