The National Agency Against Human Trafficking has conducted an awareness campaign among the girls from Deborah House. The girls watched relevant materials and participated in the open discussions on the topic of human trafficking. They received leaflets and information packages. The weekend was a lot of fun at Deborah House as the girls prepared their own Tiramisu cake. […]
Three girls from Deborah House and one from Aspirations have completed orientation meetings and individual career counseling within the project “I learn to manage” component of the bigger project funded by United Way “Education and health for children from disadvantaged families.” They have identified areas of interest, so in the next period they will benefit […]
Rachel shares her experience . . . Our dear friend, Rachel Miller climbed Kilimanjaro at Christmas to inspire the Deborah girls, and also to raise awareness and funds for the Deborah Houses. Mount Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones is a dormant volcanic mountain in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing […]
At the beginning of the month, Mr. Barnes and Mr. Morrow from Northern Ireland visited the girls from Deborah House. They were so happy to spend the afternoon together with their life-long friends.
A group of second year students from management, West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, decided that their project topic would be a Christmas event for the girls at Deborah House. So they organized themselves in advance, made a detailed plan and from the creative fundraising campaigns to Santa’s visit everything went smoothly. […]
For the fourth consecutive year BRD Timisoara employees were Santa’s hardworking good elves. Over 120 underprivileged children between ages 3-15 years, beneficiaries of the program Back to School sent their Christmas wishes to Santa and the elves from BRD fulfilled them.
This Christmas volunteers from United Way Romania from Continental Automotive Timisoara were Santa’s helpers for the 28 girls from Deborah House, but they did not forget the 12 girls from Aspirations who between 2013-2014 received career counseling and training courses through the project “We learn to succeed.”
Last week Lorena Rusovan, Ruxandra Curtean, Mariana Mitrofan, Larisa Sandu and the house parents participated at the Conference Reinventing Social Work – reconciliation of work and private life by adapting European solutions to Romanian reality. Among the topics discussed were the identification and prioritization of personal values, professional stress and burnout, public speaking.
MLI was invited to present papers at the first International Christian Conference “Power to be Different” organized by West University of Timisoara – Faculty of Sociology and Psychology. Mrs. Lorena Rusovan with Mrs. Sanda Curtean, Mrs. Mariana Mitrofan and Mrs. Karina Velescu chose two of the topics proposed by the organizers: To Educate and to […]