Community Action - SNAC

NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR COMMUNITY ACTION

As an extension of our work in the local community, CH has been working in placement centres and special schools in Romania, establishing projects of integration between able bodied and disabled children with special needs which include such educational activities as art, music, drama, sport, computing and aromatherapy.

These activities provide the opportunity for all involved to enjoy creative, expressive, imaginative and stimulating activities which they would until now not normally experience in their ordinary school programme in Romania.

Romanian High School students are a vital part of the projects. They work in partnership with the English students during the projects and then sustain them throughout the rest of the year.

From 2004 a National Strategy for Community Action, devised by Muir John Potter, and based on CH's pioneering work in Romania since 1992, has been in place.

This means that Community Action is available to students in their High School curriculum -something described by the Ministry of Education in Bucharest as a "turning point in Romanian Education".

We would like to thank all our volunteers, young and old alike (including many Old Blues whose commitment to the Romania Project extends far beyond their time at CH), for their invaluable contribution in realising these dreams, which were quite simply unimaginable at the outset.