This year and for foreseeable future, we are raising money to fund the “Read Me 100 Stories!” national program, which is meant to stimulate reading with children in kindergartens and family.

Initiated in September 2020 by Asociația OvidiuRo, the mission is to transform the approximately 4,500 public kindergartens in Romania into Kinder Libraries by 2025. Each public kindergarten has an average of 100 children and 5 educators.

The program equips every kindergarten in Romania with age-appropriate books and trains the teachers in effective literacy development techniques.

The estimated budget reaches €9 million and over the past two years, approximately €2 million has been raised. So far, through online seminars, OvidiuRo has reached 3,000 teachers in 2,000 kindergartens, and got 475,000 children’s books in the hands of 200,000 children. And all this monstrous effort was accompanied with with a staff of only ten amazing souls.

Asociatia OvidiuRo was established in 2004 and has raised over €12.5 million for various social programs designed to give disadvantaged children a chance to succeed in school and become active contributing members of Romanian society.