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ACTIVITY REPORT 2014 1
ACTIVITY REPORT 2014
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EDITO
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• 1999 : Clown of Hope Award
• 2000 : UNICEF Award Artusi Award Albert Schweizer Award • 2011 : CCIFER Jury Award
Parada Association is today, the only attending
directly to support “street children” of Bucharest. It
succeeded to develop, after its birth in 1996 to create
emergency services, social assistance, education and
social professional integration. These actions created
at the end a social circus that allows children still
today to get out from their everyday difficulties and
without future. Art and laugh carried through that
educational and accompaniment medium gives
during the passing of years a second chance to more
and more young people that after can assimilate
themselves in the labour market and obtaining a
stability.
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Edito..............................................................................2
Sommary........................................................................3
Fundamental about Association...............................................4
Social Circus.........................................................5
Street children of Bucharest...............................6
Association and ciphers............................................7
Parada’s activities in 2014........................................8
Daily Center......................................................9
Caravana / Mobile Unit..............................................................10 Support to street babies..........................11 Artistic Program.....................................12 Educational Center........................................13
InterCampus.............................................................14
Employability Program....................15 European Programs………………………16
Other Programs……………………..……17
Parada’s events in 2014.....................................18
Association’s « players »...............................................19
The staff......................................................................20
Volunteers/ Internship.....................................................21
Partners in Parada’s projects.. ..............................22 Host Partners of the Artistic Programme……23
Contacts....................................................................24
To know us better..........................................................25
Sommario
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Fundamental about Association
• Social Circus
• Street children of Bucharest
• Association and cyphers
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Social Circus
In Parada the social circus is used as the main instrument of education and accompaniment. The artistic programme is the base for the development of the other activities of the Association, whose fundamental goals are: • TO CATCH the children and the young people inviting them to form themselves in circus arts and to assist to
some exhibitions. Parada was born from the determination of a clown, Miloud OUKILI, to approach street children through art and smile. He gave to the children, not only a ludic tool, but above all the possibility to conceive a purpose in their lives, something that could improve their self-confidence, trying to wake up an hidden talent in circus field too.
• TO PROVIDE a regulatory framework to children and young people, putting the accent on respect and discipline . The social circus uses the art of circus to encourage personal and social development of young people in precarious situations. To leave place to freedom and creativity, just asking doggedness, constancy and discipline in back. The social circus is for street children, a tool to bloom and to express themselves, in a way that they can discover thanks to this universe a link with the society that has often bar them.
• TO ALLOW to young people and children to conceive and realise a circus exhibition and to let them produce themselves with time nationally and internationally. The presentation of the exhibition shows to the world the progresses made from whom that wants to reconnect withsociety. After several years, the young people of Parada’s circus group have the chance to play in Romania (hospitals, corporate galas, schools...) but then in abroad tourneés in France and Italy.
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Street children of Bucharest
Parada Association uses the social circus to join social purposes to children and young people of Bucharest. The phenomenon of street children in Romania is an heritage of the policy scheme made by N. Ceaucescu which continues to strike hardly the city of Bucharest. Currently in the capital, we count a number that stays between 1200 and 2000 street children in a fix:
• Absence of fixed places and insecurity. The children and the young people sleep in the street, in channels, in squats, in abandoned buildings… • Break-up with family links The motivations are several: death, economy difficulties, violences, addiction problems…) and they create in children’s houses a molteplicity of social, affective and emotional problems. • Schooling and access to education problems Without the acces to school for children and to the education to young people , the possibilities to find a job become very complicated, keep worsing the precariousness of the situation. • Use of drugs The hard life conditions push often people to use and abuse of drugs, speaking of glue to inhale, or injection of heavy drugs. • Hard acces to cares and sanitary services. Despite all the problems written above, sanitary problems of these children and young people aren’t considered. In addiction, some of them, having abbandoned their family, had lost or left their ID cards, consequentally it’s impossible for them to be assisted or treated.
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Association and cyphers
Parada’s general tot 2014 :
+12 382,89 €
103097,04
27614,55 14397,37
13257,42
55197,66
Daily Center
Caravana/Mobile
Unite Intercampus
Artistic Programme
Other Programs
Parada’s exits 2014 (euros)
75309,41
3514,33
13514,45
2004,52
131604,22
Parada’s entrances 2014 (euros)
Daily Center
Caravana/Mobile
Unite Intercampus
Artistic Program
Other Programs
213564,04
225946,93
Parada’s financial results 2014
(euros)
Exits
Entrances
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Parada’s activities 2014
• Daily Center
• Caravana/Mobile Unit
• Support to street children
• Artistic program
• Educational Center
• InterCampus
• Employability Program
• European Programs
• Other Programs
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Daily Center
The Daily Center is a meeting and educational place that proposes several services thinking about children and
families of the streets of Bucharest. Inside, children can start to form a journey under the supervision and the
accompaniment of a qualified personnel to allow their social, future insertion. Parada engages itself to provide
them personal knowledges and the right competences necessary to set off the individual potential, trying to get
easier the passage of the child/young person to a safer life style and to a healthy development.
Services: • Personal hygiene • Support in obtaining emergency medical help and specialistic medical cares. • Assistence in obtaining ID documents. • Social and educational animation • Literacy • Psychological accompaniment • Cultural activities • Artistic ateliers: circus • Assistance and councelling to family integration • Resumption of relationships with original families. • Research to an alternative to street life • Orientation towards literacy programs, scholastic reintegration. • Orientation towards the different activities of the Center. • Orientation towards behaviour therapy.
Staff : 1 Social Coordinator 1 Social Assistant 1 Psychologist/Referent to the program of employability 1 educational psychologist/Referent to educational Center. 1 Employee of the service 4 volunteers EVS coming from Poland, Turkey, France and Italy.
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Caravana / Mobile Unit
Parada Association is the only organism in Bucharest with the social Samu that meets children, young people and families directly on the street. The night mobile social and medical center of assistance, Caravana brings on the street of the capital city a little moral and medical support, but some food too.
CARAVANA’S PROGRAMS Mobile Unit(Caravana) Night social assistance (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday between 20 :30 and midnight): distribution of donations, informations to children about the existence of the Daily Center and about its services, invitations to join it , accompaniment to administrative centers (ID documents), accompaniment for cares and (mediation) talk with original families and with the different institutions/organisations, services of damage reduction dued to drugs abuse and consume (3500 syrings distributed and 750 condoms). Veolia is partner of the mobile unit and finance it untill15 000€ a year. Total number of beneficiaries: 199 people, of which 14 children and185 adults (of which 56 women). Mobile Unit Program: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday between 17:00 and 20:30 to the Daily Center. It includes leisure activities (puzzles, drawing, cards games, rami, ping-pong), educational activities (reading, writing, calculation) circus activities, hand-make and creativity activities (bracelets or other decorative articles). In some periods, some of these activities have been realised with the collaboration of foreign volunteers accompained with a representative of the animation team. Total number of beneficiaries: around 20 people. Milk program– Nestlé company gives milk to Parada for the babies belonging to the second generation of street children. These donations allow to 65 of them, between 0 and 36 months (27 girls and 38 boys) to be fed everyday. Support program- This program is based on a private people donation system to Parada. Furnished products and their quantities are decided by the donors. Total number of beneficiaries : 146 beneficiaries, 95 under 18 and 51 adults. So, there are 57 families helped everyday with the distribution and the disposition of different products (clothes, shoes, food, hygiene products, games, school products and others depending on expressed needs).
Team : 1 Driver– logistician 2 Social Assistants 7 Volunteers year 2014
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Support to street babies
From the idea of a volunteer, Géraldine Prigent, Parada has established in 2011 a support program to street babies. It is possible to become supporters of a baby giving 1200 Lei (around 270€) for a year to the Association. Today the program it was taken by Nathalie Faillenet-Loison. In 2014, 26 babies have been helped from people of the french comunity of Bucharest (23 babies) and by supporters in France (3 babies). The procedure is effective untill 3 years old of the child because donations are used to buy cradles, towels and all hygiene product for street children. These babies also benefit from milk provided by Nestlé company. Generally, the payment take place in two parts every six months. The donators of french comunity give cash to Nathalie who is charged to give back the money to Parada. French supporters deposit money with a bank transfer to ¾ Monde Association that then devolves it to Parada.
26 babies supported in 2014
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Artistic Program
The artistic program wants to offer to each child and young person the opportunity to discover performing arts thought circus, dance, human theatre of shadows or puppets. That’s a funny, pedagogical and social integration tool, used by the Dayly Center to create exhibitions and artistic tournées. The activities of the program concentrate themselves on the development of creativity and self-confidence. During the tournées, young people present their show into festivals, galas social centers and hospitals. Acquiring skills in performing arts, some of them animate circus workshops in french and italian schools in Bucharest, partecipating to cultural events and liven animation centers. The shows are a true opportunity to meet people from different cultures and horizons, a way to discover or rediscover a life in family, because the accomodation is as much as possible sought in foster families. Parada, with the collaboration of Magro theater and with the financial help of Alta Mane Association, presents from 2012 a new show, Parada-is, directed by Flavio Cortellazi. It is an experimental exhibition which mixes drama art and circus. That would be a message to young people who are living in streets.
Team : 1 Coordinator / Trainer 1 Trainer 2 Trainer Assistants
French Institute in Romania This Institute collaborates with Parada allowing to the social circus to produce itself twice or three times a year, realising disclosure evenings of the movie and taking in charge/welcoming street children for circus workshops during school holydays. French high school Anna de Noailles It welcomes young people for circus workshops in Bucharest. Partner BNP Paribas The BNP Paribas Foundation supports Parada with a SmartStart program. It has the goal to ease the insertion and the education of artistic practise. It gives every year 160 000 € to 8 projects with total duration of 3 years. Parada is one of them. To Parada is given 20 000€ a year to take its projects to happy ending, and this, after its launch in March 2012.
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Educational Center
The Educational Center, in collaboration with n.95 school, aims to offer to children and young people the possibility to approach to schooling, or to resume it if interrupted because of various motivations. The Educational program is flexible and keep attention to different characteristics of everybody in order to follow them the best. This is a true interface with families, children and school. The Educational Center allows to provide the together of basic knoweledges to young people, in order to help them to finish their studies, and then, to find a job.
School year 2013-2014 finished on the 20th of June for pupils of the daily schools, and on the 27th of June for all the students of « Second Chance » class. On the 24th of June , pupils of « Second Chance » have been presented to n.95 school, to final evaluations necessary for the passage to higher class. During 2013-2014 school year, Parada has supported an educational program developed by Day Care Center . A total of 21 children and young people assisted to some courses into different teaching structures including the educational Center: nr.95 school. The school situation of children and young people registered in the educational program developed by Parada is: • 15 children and young people asssited during the training day from different schools of Bucharest. • 6 children and young people have been registered into « Second Chance » program at n.95. Of the 21 beneficiaries registered in public schools, 16 children and young people overcame the access test to superior class. 25 children and young people accessed to Parada’s services, receving educational support, scholastic supplies and the possibility to partecipate to workshops and recreational activities organized by the Daily Center.
Team : 1 Educational responsible charged to follow the registered children into different structures and to distribute lessons to
young people of the Daily Center.
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InterCampus
From 1997, InterCampus realises international long-term flexible cooperation projects. The goal is to use sport (football in particular) as an educational instrument in order to give to troubled children (from 6 to 13 years old) the access to structures and to sport traninigs. In May 2012, InterCampus choose to settle in Bucharest. Then it developed sport and recreational activities in the city, allowing so the social growth and the integration of street children. To take part to the project, children, has to improve their behaviour and attend a school. In 2014, 180 young people, from Parada’s Daily Center and from Ferentari’s district took regulary part to InterCampus. They had access to two weekly tranings (on Monday and Wednesday) realising that just after few months, young people had visibly improve their behaviour towards the collectivity and that they attended school more regulary. Drug users associated with the project joined a Placement Center which helped them in fighting drugs addiction. These chilldren and young people receive helps from Parada, but from Welcome Center for childhood protection Pinocchio Sf Marcelino e Sf Stefan too. Whole program is supported by InterCampus (http://intercampus.inter.it) which finances one regular traning to trainers. InterCampus project is supported by different partners including Décathlon and Somaro that provide sport equipments and structures in order to let children training and playing.
Squadra : 2 Sport Educators 1 Sport Educatorin training (an ex street child as from program) 1 Proogram Manager
InterCampus events in 2014: 2 friendly matchs 1 tournament “Protection of the child” 1 activity during “Festa d’Italia” 1 project activity “Carovana Antimafia”
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Employabily Program
Accor Foundation donates around 28 000€ a year to Parada’s employabily program. The project includes 40 young people between 15 and 30 years old, coming from the streets of Bucharest, from orphanages and in trouble to find a job. They all partecipated to the first step of the employability project of Accor Foundation which started in July 2014. They took part to meetings on the topic: How to find a job? How to prepare a CV, motivational letter? Why are they usefull?, How to behave in a job? How to prepare to an interview? What countries to take in consideration to find a job? What are rights and obligations of workers? How to read/discuss a contract according to the law? This first theoretical step, developed in 10 meetings of 4 hours each (Aproximative period: From August to September 2014). After a selection, done from a responsible person from Accor hotels in Bucharest, 15 young people have been invited to partecipate to the second step of the project, concerning the insertion of people into kitchen teams in Accor restaurants of Bucharest. The length of the service is variable, depending on the motivation of young people and on the availability of Accor restaurants to receive apprentices. So, 6 on 15 participants could work full time during all the lenght of the second step, from 4 to 6 hours a day, 5 days a week. Some of them in weekends too. The purpose of this immersion step consisted on getting young people used to to evolve into a professional universe (team comunication, to familiarize with hierarchies and with requests of the clients, get used to demands in term to respect working hours, tasks to develop and other intenal rules). In the end, 7 young people got to obtein the job, of which 4 having only partecipate to the first part of the project, 3 having attend the second too.
European Programs
Project CARTT (Campaign to raise awareness and training in combating the trafficking in human beings) Under the specific program for prevention and fight against crime.(ISEC). Period : From 07/01/14 to 06/07/16 Purpose : To promote new prevention methods against human beings traffic in Europe, with an emphasis on the autonomy of the authorities and society, all developing an international network of different actors who come into direct contact with victims of trafficking.
JR Circus Under the specific program of European cultural creation . Period : From 01/11/14 to 30/04/16 Purpose : To produce a concrete method of cultural cooperation which encourages circus arts in order to be carriers of active citizenship and social transformation in
the countries of the European Union.
« An oppurtunity to street children » Project realized thanks to young people of the European voluntary service. Period: From 01/10/13 to 01/10/14 Purpose: To encourage a step in young people (who have not an immediate prospective of future) integration . Including a voluntary team EVS, the project will allow to organize and to support PARADA’S programs, in
particulary sport and artistic activities of street children.
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Other Programs
European responsibility for disadvantaged young people in Bucharest. Project realized in collaboration with United Way Romania. Period : From 01/01/14 to 31/10/14 Purpose: To offer some qualifications about personal formation, comply with the requirements of the European Commission, in order to open up the employment opportunities for young people and disadvantaged children in Bucharest.
Social Arts Academy Project realized in collaboration with BNP Paribas Association. Period : From March 2012 to March 2015 Purpose: The main object of the project is to contribute to get easier the acces to artistic practicies of disadvantage children and young people of Bucarest, with a particulary attention to street children. The project looks to improve the life quality of those children which are in permanent danger state, in situation of social , cultural, educational exclusion, thanks to circus art practice.
Social Art : An opportunity to children and Bucarest. Project realized in collaboration with Alta Mane Association. Period : From 01/11/14 to 31/12/14 Purpose: To acquire more competences, responsabilities and autonomies on the psychological and artistic plan. With the prospective to form professional people who will become the main point of the Association and to practice a social support thought the Circus school that Parada will open. The training will be animate from a team of 5 young collaborators, that will allow their social reinsertion and their professional insertion into the Social Art Academy that the Association wants to create in
Bucarest.
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Parada’s events in 2014
• Training In 2014 too, the program Cirque du Monde dedicated two training
weeks into Cirque du Soleil’s social program to Parada’s young people in order to improve their circus abilities. They offered too, 100 places to their moving exhibition in Bucarest: the result of the resale of the tickets has been devolved to Parada.
Alte Mane Assocaition, worked, twice to the artistic training of the team.
• Animations: 22
• Ateliers / Circus workshops : 10
• Exhibitions : 25
• Other activities: 11
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Association’s « players »
• Team /Staff
• Volunteers / Internships
• Partners
• Contacts
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The staff
ADMINISTRATION President: Francesco ALOISIO Executive Director: Ionut JUGUREANU Financial Responsible Manager : Liana SPIRIDON Bookkeeper: Andrei DINULESCU European projects Manager: Informations: Silviu Stoica DAILY CENTER Social Coordinator : Sergio dalla Ca di Dio Psychologist/Employability program Coordinator : Claudia PETRE Educational Psychologist/Educational Center Coordinator: Mirela HAITA Services Employee: Ioana CIOTANGA e Viorica Raducan Social Assistant: Alina BONTU ARTISTIC PROGRAM Artistic Coordinator/ Trainer: Marian MILEA Trainer: Florica BUDURUSI Traning Assistant : Cristian Anghel, Tatiana Simion CARAVANA /UNITE MOBILE Social Assistants: Adina STEFAN, Iuliana DOBRESCU Logistic: Marian FRATILA
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volunteers/ Intership
Parada welcomes Romanian and all nationalities volunteers regulary and puctually. This allows to assure the whole of proposed services in a dynamic and supportive way, based on exchange, respect and pleasure. Thanks to social and cultural diversity of volunteers new artistic, sporting and cultural activies can develop, offering the opportunity to young people which attend the Daily Center to have fun and discover. Evolving in a professional environment, interns support Parada’s teams in following and developping services and projects, according to their training dominium. Realised activities: • Sporting activities: Football, ping-pong, riding…. • Cultural and artistic activities: Museums visiting ,theater, cinema, dance and music workshops,
hand-make workshops, magic workshops, circus workshops …. • Excursions: festivals… • Educational activities: homework helps, languages teaching… • Accompaniment into public buildings (hospitals, • Police offices, Magistracy, City Hall…)
Parada’s voluntary initiatives 2014 : • Acvatot Assocaition offered school material to Parada for Christmas. • 50 french families gave more than 80 sandwiches every evening, raw materials and food packets. • Organisation of collecting points for donations of expatriated comunities (clothes, games, ect…)
Team : 1 Volunteers Coordinator 17 Regular Volunteers 6 Occasional volunteers 5 Interns (Natasha (specialised educator), Laura (political sciences), Céline, Thibaut e Julie
Financial Partners
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Partners in Parada’s projects
Veolia Nestlé Decathlon Somaro InterCampus Accor Association Magro Italian Theater French Institut in Romania Anna de Noailles French High School BNP Paribas Association ISEC Doxa Winmarkt United Way Romania ENEL Acvatot Association General Society CCIFER Parada Italia Association Social Samu of Bucarest
Operating Partners: ¾ Monde Association Bonne Etoile Association Alta Mane Association Valentina Romania Association
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Host Partners of the Artistic Programme
Taranului Roman Museum Aldo Moro School Acqua Parc Italian Embassy Raiffeisen Bank Canadian Embassy Balkanik Festival Casa Alba Restaurant Bucuresti Hotel Jilava Penitentiary Pullman Hotel Gregorie Alexandrescu Hospital National Theater Filantropic Association Maffeo Vegio Institut Italian Cultural Institut
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Contatti
Tél. : +40-021-331 17 99 Mobile Phone : +40-072 315 3693
Mail : [email protected] Website : www.paradaromania.ro
Fiscal Code: 950 5608
Ionut JUGUREANU – Executive Director [email protected]
Franco ALOISO – President
Fundatia PARADA
Str. Bucur 23 Sector 4, CP 040292 Bucuresti, ROMANIA
Copyright photos: Vittorio, Gianluca, Origlia and Mattia
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To know us better
PA-RA-DA
A movie by Marco Pontecorvo In 2008 the italian filmmaker inspires himself with the story of Miloud OUKILI, a french-algerian clown who, after having lent civil service in Bucharest, meets street children and decides to found Parada. The movie, testifies the truth, having as actors the real street children of 2009: The movie was honored with « New Horizonz Section » award in the 65th edition of Venice Film Festival,
