Our Mission
The mission of the Fundatia pentru Asistenta Sociala si Tineret (FAST) is to help the underprivileged people from Romania in their fight against poverty and discrimination.
Through its activities, FAST aims to facilitate integration of marginalized Rroma communities from Sacele, Tarlungeni, Zizin and Budila into society by providing educational services and social assistance to children and families living in critical situations.
Our Objectives
-to increase access to education for children living in marginalized rural areas;
-to improve the quality of life for children and families in critical situations;
-to facilitate the formation of positive role models which generate hope, confidence, and responsibility in the community.
Our Beneficiaries
We work with needy families and children in four local communities: the villages of Tarlungeni, Budila, and Zizin, and the town of Sacele. All four have isolated and effectively segregated areas populated exclusively by impoverished families of the Rroma ethnic group, which has been discriminated against in Romania for centuries. Despite making up, by some counts, more than 25% of the Sacele area population, these communities are often cut off from the local economy and the local education system. National and European Union efforts at integrating Rroma populations into society have begun quite some time ago but are moving slowly; our aim is to help those numerous children and families who continue to fall through the cracks by offering them a chance to help themselves. For more information about the Rroma and about our community, please see the Information section on the left side of the page.
