"You do not have to see to go far"

Signing the public private partnership (16.12.2008)

The White cane day
(annual on October 15th)

Modular postgraduate training
for forming and developing human resources
(January 2008, September 2010, March 2011)

Provide day care center for blind children (2009-2011)

Integration into mainstream education of seven blind children
(September 2010)

"Youth for Youth & Youth in Action" (2008 2011)

"Child rights are law"

"The future of a child has no price"
communitary project dedicated to preventing the separation of the child to his bilogic familiy (2008-2011)

Implementing strategies:

distance "adoption" (identification altruistic individuals and legal persons from Romania, Italy and USA for moral and financial support to the poor, singled partented families);
fundraising campaign and valuable objects doantions;
Charity Gala – auction of the donated objects (6 December 2008)
Gifts form Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny
birthday aniversary

Partners:

Association "Il Conventino", Bergamo, Italy
"Îngeraşul meu" Foundation, Brasov
Hearts Across Romania Foundation, USA
SC Schaeffler Romania SRL
The Notary Public Office "Viorel Tudorache", "Emil Dragusin", "Elena Batranu", Brasov
Restaurant Vesuvius Brasov
Local media
GDF Suez Romania - Brasov
Romanian Comercial Bank - Brasov
Romanian Bank for Developing - Brasov

Signature raising campaign of  100,000 signatures (01.06 - 30.08.2010)

Sesising the Romanian Parliament about the unconstitutionality of the Adoption Law

On September 1st 2010, at the proposal of Mr. Nicolae Paun - President of the Committee for human rights, cults and problems of national minorities in the Chamber of Deputies, Catharsis Association submitted to the Secretariat of the Commission the following documents:
- the draft amendment of Law 273/2004 on the legal status of adoption;
- the nominal tables with the signatures gathered from the Romanian citizens with voting rights who agreed to reopening the international adoptions in Romania;
- the on-line petition on the right of adoption;
- comments on-line petition;

- arguments and reasons - the drama experienced by children whose international adoption procedure was blocked by the Moratorium imposed in February
2004;
- the emotional abuse experienced by children by removing them from their foster families and their reinsitututionalization in foster care, though they colud have been adopted by families
abroad to which they maintain emotional bonds;
 - presentation of somesuccessful international adoptions, through letters and photos sent by the children who were internationally adopted (children with birth defects, serious illnesses, children of ethny, aged over 6).

The delegation of the Association, constited by two youths (22 and 30 years old)-who came into difficulty after being expelled from the social assistance system, a foster care, the social worker, the legal advisor of the bassociation and a volunteer, had the opportunity of a social dialogue with experts and advisors, for more than four hours.

On 5 October 2010, the representatives of the Association Catharsis motivated and argued the bill amending the law of national adoption in front of the Deputies from the Committee for human rights, cults and minority problems, responded to questions and clarified the reasons for which the international adoptions were blocked and why international adoptions should be reopened.
The Commission asked us the harmonization of our project with the one of the Romanian Office of Adoption.

In October 2010, the project was completed with the proposals made ​​by DGASPC Alba, Brasov, Buzau, Covasna, Dolj, Harghita, Mures in a public debate, but has not been harmonized with the ORA project which maintained the unconstitutional and discriminatory articles.

In the first days of February 2011, at the Commission's request, the Association motivated the draft law amending with the articles and paragraphs from international instruments of private law governing international adoption, designating Mr. Sergiu Andon Deputy to prepare a legislative initiative.

On 15 April 2011, together with Brasov County Council, the Association organized a public debate on the theme "Children's rights are law" in which we amended the Government's draft law concerning adoption.

On May 3, 2011, the Association sent to the Committees of the Senate the amendments to the Government project; some were admitted totally, others partially.

The Catharsis Associations at its anniversary - December 4th, 2011