ARCHWAY Romania is seeking charitable organizations to help us help the children left behind on the streets of Romania · Archway Romania | Archway, Inc. | Please donate to help the abandoned children of Romania

For 16 years we have been trying to get the word out about this small but growing population of children left behind on the streets of Romania by parents who could not afford to feed them or were too disabled to care for them. If you travel to Bucharest you can see them begging in the traffic, sleeping in the parks, but mostly hiding in the shadows. Their life spans are not long, their health is never good and now that the original children are grown there are too many children being born to the streets by mothers who themselves were left in the streets years before.

When I returned from Romania after my very first trip in 1997, I had 144 pages of American corporations who had interests or factories in Romania. I wrote to them all but got no responses from any of them. Then I went the route of the 501c3s (non-profit foundations) but Romania is very private about its lack of social structures to help those living in poverty so most of the foundations not in Romania did not and still do not have an accurate picture of the suffering that goes on there. As a result, there is no perceived need to help these children. Romania still clings to some vestiges of Communism which include the beliefs that the state will care for the less fortunate. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have lectured in Germany about the plight of these children only to be called a liar by a social worker who did not know of the existence of these children and was too horrified to even consider the what I was saying. I have lectured around the United States and seen people dissolve into tears at pictures I have presented.

And so to recap, ARCHWAY is trying to tell the world about these lost children in the hopes that we will find other organizations to partner with us for the sake of expanding our existing programs of food and clothing distribution, providing access to meager medical care, and helping the children obtain the all important identity papers that will allow them protection from sex and labor trafficking. We have been existing for 16 years on three consecutive grants from Ronald McDonald House Charities (1999, 2000, 2001) and always and miraculously the kindness and generosity of private citizens who support us in our work on behalf of these children. We are the only organization that works in the streets, abandoned buildings, and subway tunnels with these children but we need your help to get ideas of how we can raise money to keep our services going and add new ones. If anyone out there has any ideas or suggestions on how to get these children known to the world or where to go for grants, please let us know. And for those of you who have been faithful in your donations of clothing and money and prayers, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We are here, fighting for these kids â€“ the ARCHWAY kids â€“ and weâ€™ll keep fighting to give them better lives until the need no longer exists or we find a sustainable solution to this horrific problem. We hope to hear from you soonâ€¦

Susan Booth
Archway, Inc. /Â Fundatia Archway Romania
Improving the quality of life of children living in the streets and sewers of Bucharest, Romania since 1999

Donate Save a Child

61% 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

31% 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

15% 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!!!