My Nonprofit Reviews

Back in 2002, as part of a LEND (Leadership Education In Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) Fellowship, a colleague, a physical therapist, and I, a special educator and speech/language pathologist, partnered with Romanian Children’s Relief to institute a program we designed to foster early language and physical development in institutionalized or previously institutionalized Romanian children.
RCR worked tirelessly and effectively to organize both individual and group meetings where we could interact and/or instruct direct caregivers (staff, parents, foster parents) and indirect caregivers ( social workers) both in Bucharest and Bistrita area, Romanian locations where they had previously set up programs to aid children.
Having volunteered with another NGO almost ten years prior, to work in a Romanian orphanage for children with disabilities, I was significantly impressed with the positive changes I observed in the two to three weeks with RCR, especially in their staff’s treatment of children with special needs, their movement towards supporting foster parenting, as well as the development of a group home. Overall, I believe, RCR should be congratulated and commended for working so effectively and building solid international relationships with officials, professionals, children and families as well as in the development of programs to suit a variety of needs. None of these easy tasks to achieve.