CENTRUL EDUCATIONAL DE RESURSE SI TRAINING

• C.E.R.T is set in a remote disadvantaged rural area , South ROMANIA, running ecological and environmental protection activities; volunteering in social work; protection of human rights and the rights of children, especially in the rural area; empowering young people from the rural area; supporting young people with educational and economic difficulties and structured on 3 main departments: Projects (in charge of international networking and partnership, implementing international projects and PR), Networking (responsible of national and local networking, raising funds, and volunteers management) and Resources and Training (dealing with educational materials, logistics, data bases of learning e-tools, staff’s professional development, research and innovation of learning process). Our association aims to : • periodically create informative materials for young people and the local community; • organize training courses, seminars, conferences, public debates, social events and public opinion awareness campaigns; • implement national and European educational partnerships, • support social assistance activities in the rural area • inform and promote the human rights; • raise awareness upon the democratic principles such as: equality, dignity, freedom. Our main activities are: • ecological and environmental protection activities; • volunteering in social work; • protection of human rights and the rights of children, especially in the rural area; • empowering young people from the rural area; • supporting young people with educational and economic difficulties. Our target group is represented by rural youth in the village, aprox 36 pupils aging 10-15 and 27 young people aging 15-19 who have low access to information in general, must travel to attend school in a next village every day by school bus and because are involved in the housekeeping tasks helping their family and travel to school have almost no time to invest in their homework for school n special and inn their education in general . Our target group has low interest for education also because they cannot be helped by their parents in school tasks, have no computer access and no other educational support. The village is a small one, even just 17 km from Craiova, still not well developed regarding educational opportunities for youth.