Module 1
Factual Background
Chapter 2: Good Practices
2.7 Good Practice in Romania: The National Strategy of Community Action (SNAC)
This is a Romanian extracurricular educational programme that promotes the growth of volunteerism among students, enabling them to become well-informed, committed citizens, aiming at increasing interaction and social inclusion. It started in 2004 and it is coordinated and monitored by the Ministry of Education.
The Community Action is a voluntary activity that brings together mainstream schools with special schools, asylums, placement centres and other social institutions in a clear, coherent and coordinated program, which includes regular educational activities and creates a learning partnership between all participants. If there are no special schools or social institutions in the locality or they are not open to collaboration, SNAC volunteers can work with children or adults from disadvantaged groups.
An important component of democracy is volunteering, which defines real collaboration between partners, leading to the establishment of relationships based on trust and mutual respect. The concern for others, for various topics with community impact, teamwork, the ability to use communication and relationship skills make the volunteer a reliable collaborator for viable partnerships with the school.
The objectives of SNAC are to encourage the involvement of students, as volunteers, in activities with people in difficulty, in order to support the process of social inclusion and personal development, and to achieve the inclusion and involvement of people in difficulty, by engaging all those interested in a programme of educational activities that intensely promote social inclusion. It also aims to promote the inclusion of socially isolated people in the life of local communities through partnership activities, and to volunteer involvement and action development. In this way, the students capitalize on their knowledge, experiences and vocations/skills and develop the spirit and empathic availability in correlation with the individual needs of others with the problems of some people in the community, promoting European values and principles - solidarity, tolerance, acceptance, friendship, equality, non-discrimination.
Volunteer student groups consist of 8-20 volunteers, who may be from the same class or from different classes. Each group of student volunteers is coordinated by a teacher, called a volunteer teacher, who can coordinate one or more groups of student volunteers. Students in primary and secondary education carry out specific activities on a voluntary basis, within the curriculum at the decision of the school or extracurricular.
SNAC has as direct beneficiaries children with disabilities, children with learning difficulties and school and social adaptation, children/young people/adults from vulnerable categories and as indirect beneficiaries volunteers, families of people in difficulty, community, society. The elderly, the sick etc. can also benefit from actions that are located, temporarily or permanently, in various social institutions.
The Community Action is a voluntary activity that brings together mainstream schools with special schools, asylums, placement centres and other social institutions in a clear, coherent and coordinated program, which includes regular educational activities and creates a learning partnership between all participants. If there are no special schools or social institutions in the locality or they are not open to collaboration, SNAC volunteers can work with children or adults from disadvantaged groups.
An important component of democracy is volunteering, which defines real collaboration between partners, leading to the establishment of relationships based on trust and mutual respect. The concern for others, for various topics with community impact, teamwork, the ability to use communication and relationship skills make the volunteer a reliable collaborator for viable partnerships with the school.
The objectives of SNAC are to encourage the involvement of students, as volunteers, in activities with people in difficulty, in order to support the process of social inclusion and personal development, and to achieve the inclusion and involvement of people in difficulty, by engaging all those interested in a programme of educational activities that intensely promote social inclusion. It also aims to promote the inclusion of socially isolated people in the life of local communities through partnership activities, and to volunteer involvement and action development. In this way, the students capitalize on their knowledge, experiences and vocations/skills and develop the spirit and empathic availability in correlation with the individual needs of others with the problems of some people in the community, promoting European values and principles - solidarity, tolerance, acceptance, friendship, equality, non-discrimination.
Volunteer student groups consist of 8-20 volunteers, who may be from the same class or from different classes. Each group of student volunteers is coordinated by a teacher, called a volunteer teacher, who can coordinate one or more groups of student volunteers. Students in primary and secondary education carry out specific activities on a voluntary basis, within the curriculum at the decision of the school or extracurricular.
SNAC has as direct beneficiaries children with disabilities, children with learning difficulties and school and social adaptation, children/young people/adults from vulnerable categories and as indirect beneficiaries volunteers, families of people in difficulty, community, society. The elderly, the sick etc. can also benefit from actions that are located, temporarily or permanently, in various social institutions.
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