CARE


 * CARE stands for Children's Ark Roma Education.**

**Its motto is: All children must go to school!**

Children’s Ark is one of very few organizations in Greece that is actively involved in helping the Roma minority (Gypsies). Too many of the children coming from Roma families are not going to school.

CARE is addressing the problem by offering support to children that should attend school. We have installed the first building in the middle of a large Roma settlement in Examilia just outside of Corinth. Here the children get help before and after schoolhours. There is help with clothing provision, hygiene, health issues, food, reading, music, singing and play-time.

Please help us to continue this vital project! Please **email me** for more info.

For more information on the CARE project take a look at the [|CARE Facebook page]

Children's Ark Roma Education 25 Apostolos Pavlos Street Corinth, 20100

Tel: 00 30 27410 84088 Mob: 00 30 693 71 37 399

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====== At this moment we have 3 groups of children up and running. One preschool group with approximately 15 young children of the ages 5-7 that will start first grade in September 2010, one group of about 20 older children 8-13 years old that have never gone to school and our newest group is the English group which consists of 15 children that attend primary school from 3rd – 6th grade.

What CARE is doing is working with the children as much as possible as long as they are not attending school while working on the different issues that stops them from going to school. The children in the group 5-7 year olds have good chances of starting and making it through primary school. The children in the second group 8-13 come from the worst backgrounds and might not start school at all. The only chance for some of them to learn is to have a drop- in schooling system where they can come as they are, without demanding too much from them (like being clean, well dressed, paperwork, vaccinations etc). CARE is their only chance of ever knowing a school. The English group is one of many groups that we want to start for the children that already attend school. For a Roma child to have made it up to the 3rd grade is not simple or easy. Some of them are already beginning to slip away and they desperately need encouragement in the effort that they are making.

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====== Children's Ark UK is a non profit organisation set up by Panos Fellas in order to help the work carried out by the Children's Ark project in Examilia near Corinth in Greece. The organisation overseeing this project in Greece is called Children's Ark - Greece. The driving force behind this and many other projects is the [|Children's Ark Organization in Sweden.]

The project in Greece is currently enjoying the help of two volunteers from France through the European [|Youth in Action programme]

The main needs of this charity are financial and so we would like you to consider donating a minimum of £2 (more if you can afford it please) per month to the fund. All those who make this minimum monthly contribution are automatically eligible to become members of this charity if they so wish.

Occasionally we will collect clothes, shoes and other household items to deliver directly to the children in the project in Greece.

Please email me for more information: p.fellas@btinternet.com