Warm hearts for Ukraine Imagine that you took your child and left your home in a hurry. You only managed to grab a teddy bear and a bag of clothes. Or maybe nothing. You waited for days in the cold to cross the border. Finally, you...
Saving pedals – narrative report Saving pedals, pastel Association’s March project, was about women, giving (in all the word’s meanings), doctors, saving and… time. Problem: the female medical attendants at the Fălticeni Municipal Hospital are depending on other people’s schedule, on occasions, husbands, or their own feet...
Save with first aid- February 2022 When you are a child with special educational needs, life may seem a long succession of obstacles. Of maddening routines. Of worries. And if the disability also leads to crisis, or medical emergencies where rapid intervention is needed, their teachers...
Equipment for hope - January 2022 Equipment for hope was the first project of 2022 for pastel Association. We wanted to do something meaningful and endow the Recovery, Physical Medicine, and Balneology Department in the Sf. Maria Childrens’ Emergency Clinical Hospital in Iași as approximately 1000...
Giving to Amara – DECEMBER 2021 Giving to Amara was, in numbers, the pastel Association’s fifth project, our first Christmas project and, in fact, the eight time we were actively involved in the life of the community of Amara in Buzau County. The community’s children come...
Bruiseless love – NOVEMBER 2021 According to statistics*, 33 women were killed by their partners, former spouses or family members between January and August 2021. In the same period of time were issued over 7000 temporary restraining orders and 6.901 protective orders and most assaulters were...
Cheering seniors – October 2021 Cheering seniors, the pastel Association project from October 2021, has been postponed to 2022 due to the Covid pandemic. We wanted to give the elderly something to be joyful about, but it had to take place in conditions of maximum safety...
grădiSTART for Necșești - september 2021 In 2013, Necșești was designated the poorest village in Romania by the Ministry of Development. Its own residents said about this place: „we don’t have a pharmacy, we don’t have water, sewage, we have nothing”. The working adults are just...
Good eyes for the future - august 2021 During the summer vacation of 2021 the 120 children in Balta Albă, Buzău county were suffering the consequences of all those months when they had studied in front of a screen. Many of them were complaining of eyes...
aBUNament We know. We know that there are tens of thousands of NGOs in Romania, but we also know that there is always room for doing even more good. That is why we dream to turn good deeds into a habit, and we would like people...