Run and give hope! Run and give confidence! Run and give abandoned children the chance for a better life!
Institutionalised children need you. They are hurt, sensitive and insecure. Run and raise money for them to go to psychotherapy!
This year marks 10 years since we embarked on our mission to provide long-term support to children and young people in institutions and from disadvantaged backgrounds. Over 10,000 volunteers have joined us in that time to give these children the support they never knew existed. Volunteers go to them every week, see and hear them, encourage them, support them in their education and enrol them in courses that match their skills and interests, from sports, music or drawing to vocational counselling and skills courses for older children.
But abandoned children also struggle with emotional wounds. Many of them have suffered traumas that are hard to talk about, let alone live with. They have experienced abandonment, institutionalisation and abuse. They constantly feel loneliness, lack confidence and have trouble understanding and managing their emotions.
Children and young people in the care system need support to overcome their terrible suffering. They need to go to psychotherapy sessions so that they can overcome the traumas they have experienced, learn to manage their emotions, integrate successfully into society and lead the dignified life they deserve.
Sign up and run as part of the Get BIG team on 11-12 May 2024. Become a fundraiser for abandoned children and give them a chance for a better life.
1 psychotherapy session for 1 child costs 150 lei. For 1 month of therapy you need 600 lei, 1800 for 3 months or 3600 for 6 months of therapy. You decide how much you want to raise. Every donation makes a difference in the lives of these children.
Join the team of the Get BIG at Bucharest Half Marathon 2024
The kids need you to keep them going. Become a Galantom fundraiser and convince your friends to support you with encouragement and online donations.
Here are the steps to follow:
- 1. Sign up for one of the 3 races of the Bucharest Half Marathon (Fun Race 2,5 km, 10 km race, 3x7 km relay, 21 km race) here: OMV Petrom Bucharest Half Marathon - Bucharest Half Marathon (bucuresti21km.ro/en).
- 2. Become a Galantom fundraiser - fill in this short online form - Become a Galantom fundraiser - and send a photo of yourself to alina@ajungemmari.ro, so that we can create your fundraising campaign page.
- 3. Tell your relatives, friends, acquaintances about your cause and convince them to donate so that your race becomes a comprehensive event of running and good deeds.
Thank you for being part of the betterment of institutionalized children! Every psychotherapy session comes with a plus in their lives.
About “Ajungem MARI”
The largest socio-educational program implemented nationally by the Lindenfeld Association, Ajungem MARI supports children and young people from the protection system and disadvantaged backgrounds to become responsible and independent adults.
The strength of the organisation is its volunteers. More than 1,400 volunteers work weekly with 3,000 children and young people in foster homes, day centres, family homes and apartments.
In almost 10 years of work we have supported 3,000 children, 347 of whom have received psychotherapy.
