Children's Day!!! · Archway Romania | Archway, Inc. | Please donate to help the abandoned children of Romania

Hello Friends!

It is a day for which children are celebrated as the future of Romania. The Archway kids are not recognized as a part of the future though they certainly deserve to be and, from Archway Romania’s point of view, would be a tremendous asset to the future of the country. They are bright, resourceful and loving. Archway Romania decided that they deserved to be honored as much as any child and so we set off to honor them and celebrate as the future of the country.

Our celebration was held outside in a park since they resided in abandoned buildings that are as stifling in the summer as they are cold in the winter. It turned into a wonderful experience for the children and their parents who don’t receive recognition as the rest of the recognized “middle class” do. So many of the young parents that attended grew up as street children themselves and only know what they learned during their childhoods.In Romania street children are not allowed in restaurants or even stores.

They are singled out by security guards who don’t let them enter unaccompanied anywhere. So Gica and the rest of the Archway gang decided that the best place to throw their celebration would be out in the open in a park and, since Archway began 25 years ago with a grant from Ronald McDonald House Charities, it seemed appropriate to fete these kids with Happy Meals. They were delighted. We venture to say that most of them had never had a Happy Meal before and the sheer novelty of a hamburger and French fries was not lost on them.

Once they figured out how to open the little cartons it was, for them, like opening up a treasure chest! A surprising situation arose when Gica realized that most of the kids did not know what a straw was and how to use it. That is why, in the pictures so many of them are seen standing with straws in their hands. Gica took it upon himself with help from the others to show the children how to use straws so they could drink their suc (juice)! Needless to say, it was a memorable Children’s Day and one we hope to repeat each year.

If you want to get involved in our helping mission of needy children and poor families, please visit, like, follow and share our activity from:

-Website: https://archwayromania.org/

-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ArchwayRomania

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087582820414

-TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@archwayromania?lang=en

Donate Save a Child

57% funded

With the funds raised, Archway Romania will have resources to help children, especially those from vulnerable families, benefit from integrated community services: benefit from the treatments they need, grow up with their families, grow harmoniously without violence and enjoy childhood. According to Eurostat data in 2013, more than 40% of Romania’s population, or more than 49% of the Romanian children’s population, were at risk of living in poverty. Approximately 300,000 children in Romania are outside the education system, over 60,000 children are separated from their families, and about 10% of pregnancies are recorded in adolescents. The reasons are complex, interdependent and continue to be passed on from one generation to the next. Low access to health, social and education services, plus limited knowledge of rights and opportunities, lead to social exclusion of vulnerable families and their children. The economic crisis has affected vulnerable families through job losses and reduced incomes from work in the country or abroad. The crisis has also affected the capacity of social protection, health and education systems to meet the multiple needs of vulnerable children and families. The most vulnerable children are those in poor families, Roma communities, and children with disabilities.

General Fund

ARCHWAY Romania needs donations to keep our organization viable and to help these abandoned children of Romania, Rest in peace, Radu.

Every day, children of every age become orphaned or abandoned due to violence, natural disasters, poverty or disease. Without the support of a family, the outlook for these children is bleak.

Your gift to Archway Romania today provides children with:

Warm clean clothes;
Healthy meals and medical care
Identity Papers
Preschool, primary and secondary education counseling and training
School supplies
Emergency relief help in crisis situations

Established in 1999, Archway Romania is the one of the largest organization based in Bucharest devoted to the care of orphaned and abandoned children living on the streets of Bucharest.

Donate Help a Child to Go to School

30% funded

Archway Romania foundation provides the necessary material and financial support for the education of the children who come from poor families, disadvantaged families, foster care , with disabilities and difficult health problems who need a warm meal, a sandwich, an education and a help for their integration in school system.

In Romania, 1 in 5 children are facing major deficiencies, the parents of these children have lost their jobs( most of the time temporary or seasonal jobs), and who ended up in the situation of not having food, hygiene products, medicine, basic foodstuffs to survive, lack of a home and the discrimination due to poverty.

The pandemic has deeply affected the education and has worsened the existing social inequalities.

Any of your contribution will be invested for the benefit of street children, to prevent school leaving, discrimination and juvenile delinquency, together with you we can give necessary equipment to be able to carry out their online classes( tablets, internet access), educational materials( backpacks, notebooks, pens, markers, crayons, geometric kits, pencil cases , etc), clothes and shoes, food and personal hygiene products to help them not to drop out of school because of poverty and poor living conditions.

Thanks for your interest in this critical step forward for our kids.

Please Help Us to Replace the Old and Broken Car

14% funded

Please help us raise urgently the amount of 20.000$ in order to buy a new car to continue helping street children and disadvantaged families that we help together for 23 years .

Our car is old, it was manufactured in 2006.We fixed several defects that the car developed over time, and recently in order to be able to help children from the street, we had to repair the water pump for cooling the engine and the oil leaks that the car has, shortly after that we had to change the clutch kit with the pressure plate.

Another more expensive repair was the removal of the rust that appeared aggressively in the car body because the car is 16 years old since it was manufactured and we had to repair it in order to get a license from the Romanian Auto Registry to be able to continue to drive it safely on the streets.

Now we have very serious problems with the engine, the car starts very hard and it is possible that the car will stop working and we won’t be able to help street children, we will have to raise money together so we can buy a new car because it would be very expensive to repair the engine.

Please help us raise urgently the amount of 20.000$ in order to buy a new car to continue helping street children and disadvantaged families that we help together for 23 years .

It is necessary to buy another car to ensure the transport of food, clothing, thick blankets and medicine to poor and needy children who live on the streets, to be able to drive in all sectors of Bucharest where street children live in abandoned buildings, heating sewers or shacks made of cardboard or plastic material.

We can make this mission possible if we join forces to raise the necessary money to replace the old car in order to continue helping poor and needy children and to be able to ensure that they live in a cleaner and more decent life.

Together with you we can make this mission possible, to continue our tradition of 23 years and to help further poor children living on the street. God bless us all to overcome this problem too and to continue this mission together with you. Thank you very, very much for your help!!!