On Thursday, February 17, 2022, a special event took place in Poiana Teiului commune, Neamț county. The occasion was the completion of the ADRA project “A digital school in the country”. Through this project, ADRA Romania contributed to improving the educational conditions for the 372 children enrolled in the “Iustin Pârvu” Gymnasium School in Poiana Teiului commune, Neamț county. They achieved this by purchasing IT equipment for an innovative approach in the field of education and expanding its use of ICT in teaching-learning-assessment activities. The new equipment for equipping classrooms paves the way for digital learning as an alternative, interactive and attractive means of study.
The project "A digital school in the country" for the 372 students took place over a period of 5 months and 17 days, starting on October 1, 2021, and ending on February 17, 2022. The purpose of the project, with an investment of EUR 7,560, was to improve the conditions of sustainable education by digitizing the educational process to advance school performance among children. All of this was achieved through multiple means: by purchasing IT equipment to provide high quality education to rural students and by modernizing and equipping the school with IT equipment necessary for the learning process, in accordance with the new conditions imposed by the situation created by COVID-19 (online learning).
ADRA Romania, with the support of a single financier in the field of expertise “Basic Education and Health” , has proposed and successfully achieved the improvement of living conditions for the children and citizens of the locality. The implementation of the ADRA project "A digital school in the country" was coordinated by Willy Cotruță, Bogdan Stănică, and Gabriela Istrate.
"I am very happy because this project comes from the field of education,” said Georgel Pîrlitu, vice president of ADRA Romania and executive secretary of The Conference Union of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Romania. “I am happy because the Adventist Church places the most emphasis on education. Worldwide, the Seventh-day Adventist Church today has more than 3,000 educational institutions where hundreds of thousands of children study, and I am pleased that ADRA is following this line. In recent years, ADRA Romania has experienced an unexpected development, through the work and dozens of projects implemented for different categories of people, all this being done because the team consists of people with vision, [who are] generous and empathetic,” concluded Pîrlitu.
"We believe that by investing in education, we can change the society in which we live, and we can do something,”shared Robert Georgescu, executive director of ADRA Romania. “We believe that by standing side by side and shaking hands with the Territorial Administrative Unit, the Education Unit, the church, NGOs, volunteers, sponsors and various institutions that have understood their role, we can do beautiful things in Romania.”
"When I started this project in 2021, I had high hopes that students in rural areas would also have high-level tools,” explained Ancuța Vasilica, director of the “Iustin Pîrvu” Gymnasium School, Poiana Teiului commune, Neamț county. “Being in a continuous process of digitization, we have reached high standards with the help of ADRA, [who] we thank from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you all for the initiative, involvement, dedication, seriousness, and effort!” concluded Vasilica.
More about ADRA Romania
Since 1990, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency - ADRA Romania has been mainly involved in development projects that benefit the entire population. Leading in the projects undertaken according to the motto “Justice. Compassion. Love.”, ADRA Romania brings joy and hope to the lives of the beneficiaries by promoting a better future, better values, and human dignity. ADRA Romania is part of the ADRA International network, the global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. As one of the most widespread non-governmental organizations in the world, ADRA International is active in over 118 countries and follows a philosophy that combines compassion with practicality, addressing people in need, without making racial, ethnic, political, or religious distinctions, in order to serve humanity so that all may live as God intended.
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