About us
F.R.O.D.O.‘s principal mission is “To transform the quality of life, provide hope, and empower physically and mentally disabled orphans in developing countries.” However, our broader objective is to improve the quality of life for children in desperate need: the abandoned and orphaned (principally, though not exclusively, those who are disabled), the abused, those with life-threatening illness and children who are at risk due to extreme poverty.
It is unique in its work of identifying orphans and abandoned children with disabilities or life-limiting conditions, then striving to provide medical treatment in the hope that this will transform their quality of life, and increase the number of opportunities for them to fulfil their potential.
We do this in various ways. F.R.O.D.O. Programmes gives more details about our major programmes.
In addition, the charity works in other ways, some of which are listed below:
- Providing financial and medical help for various NGO partners in Romania and Albania.
- Supplying assistance to a home in Vrancea county housing abandoned children with varying degrees of special needs, principally learning and behavioural difficulties.
- Supplying food and other forms of assistance to several families in a small Gypsy village near Medias, who were intending to abandon their babies due to extreme poverty.
- Sending a paediatric ventilator and other equipment to a maternity hospital in Oradea. See Used to New.
- Sourcing used medical equipment that is being replaced in western countries, but may be of enormous help in developing countries.
- Matching the funding raised by the local community to provide a prosthesis to a 17 year old boy from a poor family in Bucharest who had lost half of his leg. With his new leg, Leonard is going to be more confident in finding a job.
- Being elected as the spokesperson for RomanianChild.org, a Federation of more than 40 charities working with children in Romania. In this regard, F.R.O.D.O. is negotiating with the Romanian Secretary of State for Childcare and the European Parliament in Brussels to improve the funding and delivery of care to children in need. The Chairman of F.R.O.D.O. undertakes this activity at his own expense.
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