Change Their Story!

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The “Change their Story!” campaign, launched at the American International Film Festival (AIFF), aims to highlight the importance of all children’s access to quality early education and to provide the necessary funds to provide books to preschool children.

We call on all those who can get involved and wish to support the preschool education of an underprivileged child- to send a recurring SMS* (EUR 2/month), to 8844 with the text CARTE. Each SMS sent will be transformed into a book that will be offered to such a child. Most of the time, it will be his very first book. It will be the beginning of a new story, a page turned towards a better future.

In the new reality created by the COVID-19 pandemic, children living in disadvantaged communities did not have access to kindergarten and online school, so the educational gap widened, and the chances of dropping out of school increased. In addition, children from disadvantaged families have no books at home at all, and in kindergartens, in disadvantaged areas, there are often only coloring books, which creates a major impediment to their readiness to attend school.

The reality is that…

  • according to data provided by NSI, there are about 600,000 preschool children (age 3-5) and 35,000 educators.
  • about 83% of children are enrolled in kindergarten.
  • this percentage is 10% lower in rural areas than in urban areas…

… but the major problem remains these kids’ extremely low daily kindergarten attendance.

Unfortunately,

  • the early school and kindergarten drop-out rate in our country remains at one of the highest levels in Europe – 18.1%, and in rural areas it reaches even 26.6%, compared to 10.6% of the European average in 2018, against a prominent background of poverty and low education of the parents.

Fortunately, OvidiuRO is here and:

  • together we can change their story,
  • together we can bring books closer to children,
  • together we  can give them a chance to a real form of education,
  • each SMS with the text CARTE sent to 8844 is transformed into a book for a child.

* Campaign with the support of Digi Mobil, Orange Romania, Telekom Romania Mobile and Vodafone Romania. The amount of the donation is 2 Euro/month. The amount allocated to the case is 2 Euro. No VAT is charged on subscription donations. In the Digi Mobil, Orange and Telekom Romania Mobile networks, for prepaid cards, VAT was withheld when purchasing the credit. For donations on prepaid cards, in Vodafone network users do not pay VAT