BENEFITING

Below, please find information about the social causes which benefited since our inaugural event in 2019.

For the upcoming fifth edition, our implementation partner is again Empathy Network while the benefiting non-profit selected is Blue Heron Foundation (BHF).

Over the past 23 years, BHF raised €3.5 million and awarded college and high school scholarships to 750+ vulnerable students across Romania and Republic of Moldova, among other programs.

For the forth edition (2024), we partnered with Empathy Network, to raise awareness and money for two important programs:

Providing Affirmative Art workshops for vocational high schools

Solar panels for families whose children study by candlelight

At our third edition (2022), we raised money to fund the “Read Me 100 Stories!” national program, which is meant to stimulate reading with children in kindergartens and family. [...read more]

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.

Nationwide Map

Annual Report

The money raised during the first two editions of our charity ball (2019-2020) benefited children ages 3 to 12 from placement centers in and around Bucharest who were invited to attend Art Safari’s educational art workshops and art exhibitions. The workshops were designed to improve children’s understanding of shapes, textures, patterns, dimensions and the environment while encouraging them to appreciate art and the art world.