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1989/90/91 ROMANIA - Numerous visits made to Romania (pre and post revolution) and to other parts of Eastern Europe. Various aid trips were arranged and volunteer care workers were placed in orphanages. 1992 ROMANIA - Care and Relief for the Young (CRY) was formed and registered as a charity - No. 1011513. Initial discussions took place with the Bucharest city authorities about their street children problem, and on a wider front the training of childcare and other social workers. 1993 ROMANIA - CRY achieves full charitable status in Romania (CRY Romania). Bucharest City Council provide a large but completely derelict four-storey 2,600 m² building in ¾ acre of grounds for conversion to use as a home for destitute children on a 'small family' model basis, and as a training base for Romanian social workers. 1994 ROMANIA - The building and renovation work started. CRY negotiates and enters into an official partnership with Bucharest City Council, with respect to the street children project, signed by the Mayor of Bucharest. CRY named the building The Mary Jenkins Centre after a generous UK benefactor, although this was later changed by the local authority to Casa Robin Hood! 1997 ROMANIA - Renovation work at the Centre was completed to decorated standard. Total cost of the refurbishment £225,000 sterling ($360,000 USD). Units Phase 1 and Phase 2 were equipped ready to receive children. Romanian and UK staff recruited. Working strategy for the home is developed. The first intake of children were received in August. 1998 ROMANIA - Further orphaned/abandoned children were admitted making Units 1 and 2 full with 32 children by October. The equipping of the home is continued, assisted by a grant. More Romanian staff were employed to work alongside childcare volunteers and specialists from the UK. An oil-fired double boiler heating system is installed in time for winter. 1999 ROMANIA - A season of much stress brought about by substantial changes in Romanian child protection legislation which decentralised the existing childcare structures and made local authorities directly responsible for the children living in their own districts. KOSOVA - Following the outbreak of war in Kosova, CRY initiates an appeal which enabled 120 tonnes of aid to be sent to Albania to support displaced Kosovan refugees in Elbasan. 2000 ROMANIA - Following almost a year of bureaucratic haze, uncertainty and intense negotiation with local authority managers and the child protection department, Casa Robin Hood was finally transferred in November to the local sector 4 child protection department who continue to operate the Home which now also includes their administration centre. UKRAINE - CRY enters an agreement with EZRA Ukraine to partner them with their street outreach work in Kiev and help support the Father's House children's home at Petrivske. KOSOVA - CRY supports a number of returning Kosovan widows, families and orphans by way of a pension scheme, administrated by CRY's representatives in Prishtina. 2001 ROMANIA - CRY Romania (Fundatia Ajutor Si Grija pentru Tineri) gains accreditation as a fostering agency (one of only a very few) and successfully placed a number of children from Casa Robin Hood with Christian foster parents. This programme was developed and plans were made to establish CRY supported independence apartments for some of the older teenagers from Casa Robin Hood. UKRAINE - the partnership work with EZRA and FATHER'S HOUSE children's home grows. Other possible CRY partnerships in RUSSIA, SOUTH AFRICA, ARMENIA and ALBANIA are discussed and considered for implementation in 2002. 2002-2007 In response to changing needs and requests from other local churches running care programmes in their own communities, CRY gradually becomes more of a supporting agency - envisioning, empowering, resourcing, training and supporting Christian childcare initiatives in an ever increasing number of countries. By the end of 2007, CRY was supporting 29 programmes in 15 countries through regular and ad-hoc funding, and capital grants. For current information, visit guiding principles, project criteria, and download a project brochure for more information.
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