AUAN PROJECTS

The Charitable Association Alexandra Nanu, shortly named AUAN, offers financial and material support for youngsters of age between 6 and 19 who wish and can complete their study and build up a professional career, but who lack financial resources.

This support offered by AUAN is an actual recognition of the achievements of the children and ambitious youngsters who have recorded academic performances and wish to pursue this target further on. At this point the beneficiaries in the AUAN project do not want their identity to be public, because of some existing mentalities in the society, but we hope that in a relatively short time we will succeed to make them proud to be part of the AUAN project and that they were chosen to be awarded.

Other activities carried out by AUAN:

identification and evaluation of the beneficiaries;

information in the field: promoting the aim and the offered services, as well as making the community sensitive to the existing societal problems;:

school and professional advising activities when asked by the beneficiaries;

juridical, sociological and psychological advising when asked by the beneficiaries;

urgent intervention in difficult cases.

We planned to give Christmas and Easter gifts – consisting in provisions and sweets – to all children and youngsters to whom AUAN had prepared social reports.

The projects of AUAN last 10 months over one school year, starting with September. In August each year the General Assembley of AUAN analyses all cases with social reports considering the following criteria:
– the school performance;
– the age between 6 and 19;
– the net income per household member must not exceed 800 ron.

The Assembley will choose the future beneficiaries and the sums offered, according to the existing funds. Each beneficiary – case is attributed to an AUAN member who becomes responsible of that case, and will keep in touch with the beneficiary and his/her family, with the school where he/she studies and will monitor the beneficiary during the whole contract time frame, while assuring an efficient evolution. The responsible of the case will form a team together with the social assistant and if needed, with the psychologist and the jurist. Each child/ youngster who meets the criteria can apply for support from AUAN on the web-page: www.alexandrananu.ro Applications are only available to Romanian students : www.alexandrananu.ro/Prezinta-ti cazul

VOLUNTARILY – is the way the entire activity of AUAN is accomplished. The gathered funds are disposed strictly for the aim mentioned at Art. 64 of AUAN Charter. All things which have been accomplished in AUAN, such as presentation kits, visit cards, texts, translations, the launching, the accreditation, accountancy, juridical acts, have been exclusively the work of AUAN’s members, the accountant and the lawyer.

AUAN PROJECT FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 2022 – 2023

AUAN project for the school year 2022 – 2023 comprises 18 beneficiaries.
The criteria of selection of beneficiaries are :
-school results – defined further on;
- the requester is between 6 and 19 years old;
-net income / family member is less than 800 RON;

AUAN introduced four categories of support for the beneficiaries :
1. GRANT I – 18 beneficiaries;
2. GRANTS II– 0 beneficiaries;
3. GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS, EASTER
4. PUNCTUAL INTERVENTIONS : granting the amount of 1500 lei for each AUAN beneficiary who finishes the XIIth class and of the amount of 500 lei for each AUAN beneficiary at the end of the VIII- class, providing sponsorships for children / teenagers who participate in contests, competitions, festivals and distribution of all donations received from AUAN members and supporters, to AUAN beneficiaries, as required.

I. GRANT I – for beneficiaries who :
- have a general average grade between 9 and 10;
- respectively the qualification FB –very good;
- average grade 10, respectively the qualification FB, for conduct;
- no subject with the average grade under 7, respectively the qualification B.

Grants I consist of:
- monthly amounts, depending on the education cycle, namely:
– grades I – IV : 450 RON / month => 4500 RON / school year;
– grades V – VIII : 475 RON / month => 4750 RON / school year;
– grades IX – XII : 500 RON / month => 5000 RON / school year.

- Easter gifts =300 RON, Christmas = 300 RON and June 1st – depending on the situation;
- occasional donations made by AUAN members and supporters.

II. GRANTS II – for beneficiaries who :

- have a general average grade between 8 and9, respectively the qualification B and FB for all subjects;
- average grade 10, respectively the qualification FB, for conduct;
- no subject with the average grade under 6,respectively the qualification B.

Grants II consist of :
- monthly amounts, depending on the education cycle, namely:
– grades I – IV : 350 RON / month => 3500 RON / school year;
– grades V – VIII : 375 RON / month => 3750 RON / school year;
– grades IX – XII : 400 RON / month => 4000 RON / school year.
- Easter gifts =300 RON, Christmas = 300 RON and June 1st – depending on the situation;
- occasional donations made by AUAN members and supporters.

III. GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS, EASTER and JUNE 1st – for :
- former AUAN members who do not enter any of the first three categories;
- brothers/sisters of beneficiaries of 2018-20197 projects where there are several children in the family;
- other children/ teenagers that submit to AUAN and do not enter any category. Gifts consist of sweets, food, fruit, etc. in approx.. amount of 150 RON/beneficiary for Christmas, 150 RON/beneficiary for Easter, depending on the situation, for June 1st.

IV. PUNCTUAL INTERVENTIONS –for beneficiaries who :
- submit to AUAN for material support: clothes, shoes, various objects, etc. received as donations from AUAN members and supporters.

To stimulate the growth of school performance, the situation of each beneficiary will be evaluated at the end of the first semester and, given that conditions are found to be others than those in the contract (for example, the average increase over 9), the beneficiary enter another category of scholarship, based on an addendum to the contract. Amounts allocated to beneficiaries are strictly for their needs, especially for raising school performance. AUAN responsible for the case has the obligation to analyze together with the client the priorities of their needs, to give consent on purchases that the beneficiary will make and within maximum two days, to settle their invoice received from the beneficiary, the invoice certifying the acquisition of goods agreed above (according to the agreement between AUAN and the beneficiary). Grants I and II are granted based on individual contracts concluded between AUAN and the beneficiaries. Needs of beneficiaries, identified during social investigations, are:
- food, clothes, shoes;
- books, notebooks, stationery, exercise books, dictionaries, computers, tutoring;
- dental treatments, dental braces;
- ophthalmologic consultations, eyeglasses;
- camps, trips.

Working procedure: the scholarships are transferred in the bank account of the beneficiary, once per semester/ all months cumulated. The case responsible together with the social worker monitor the beneficiaries on a monthly basis, thus ensuring that the allocated funds are used as efficiently as possible.

THE BENEFICIARIES ENROLLED IN THE AUAN PROJECT FOR 2022-2023

The AUAN project for the school year 2022 - 2023, being our last project, during the Extraordinary General Meeting of August 6, 2022, it was decided that all the beneficiaries included in this last project of our 11-year activity will receive a scholarship of 500 lei/month, meaning 5,000 lei/school year, regardless of their grading and the education cycle.