Projects/ Programs
"Meal, twice a day"
Each day, all the fifty children and youth attending our social centre, serve here a healthy and consistent lunch, as also breakfast or a snack, depending on their school program. The special events, Christmas, Easter, the school's end, are also celebrated in the foundation, as in a big family.
"Forgotten children"
Considering that in the underprivileged families there is a high risk of family abandon, especially in the case of the new-born babies, the foundation makes efforts to prevent this phenomenon by offering them the necessary support (counseling, milk powder, baby clothing, pampers, etc.)
Another objective of this project is to ensure an adequate education to the pre-school children, brothers or sisters of the children attending our social day centre, by enrolling them in kindergarten and paying the afferent taxes.
"The Atelier of Creation and Art-therapy"
All the children who attend our day center participate with great pleasure to the activities unfolding in the Atelier of Creation. Painting on paper or stone, tailoring, modeling clay and all other creation of decorative objects develop the creativity and the practical skills of the children. The best works of the children were presented in thematic exhibitions at the Romanian Peasant Museum, National Children’s Palace or on the “Charity Gift” site or were offered to the friends of our Foundation.
The foundation has a dance and a vocal group which participate in many spectacles and cultural events, on the occasion of the religious fests, Child’s Day, Europe’s Day, School year’s end, demonstrating through their successes, that their talents and efforts deserve to be known and appreciate.
"Closer"
The project targets the education of the children and youth beneficiaries of the foundation, in the spirit of the basic moral values of the community, through supporting, according to their measure and possibilities, the elderly persons from the community. Through volunteering activities, especially during the cold season or by offering greetings or small decorative objects made in the foundation’s atelier of creation, our children earned the respect and appreciation of our senior neighbors. They also participate in public events dedicated to the elderly persons, by performing in spectacles of dance, music and poetry.
"Windows to the future"
All the Foundation’s children are involved, on working groups, in this project that aims at developing their computer operating skills. Thereby, make up editing a text, drawing on the computer or modifying a picture, as also accomplishing a spreadsheet or a presentation, became accessible things for children who either did not know at all the computer or used it only to play games.
They got also used to utilize the Internet for studies and homework, to assign or receive information efficiently, by computer.
“Hands On 4 Joyo – Today is my birthday!”
The project, initiated by the Hands on Education company and developed in collaboration with our foundation, aims at stimulating the affective and moral development of the children attending the “Florian House”, by organizing monthly thematic parties dedicates to celebrating 
children’s birthdays. The parties encompass games, contests, creative workshops, songs and dances, thus constituting a special occasion of educating through play and of developing a pro-social behavior.
On the occasion of Christmas, Hands on Education prepared and offered to the children involved in the project, wonderful gifts, that made the children very happy.
"Expedition in Carpathians - Sarmisegetuza"
This project which unfolds annually is organized by the National Children’s Palace, the Ministry of Justice and the JOYO Foundation. Our children participate in these expeditions, among other groups of children and youngsters from the National Children’s Palaces of Bucharest and Cugir and a few Reeducation Centers for Minors. The project’s objectives lie in stimulating the social integration of the youngsters affected by juvenile delinquency and as for the other children, in achieving new knowledge and educational experiences and preventing the antisocial attitudes and tendencies. In 2009, the seventh edition of the project took place in the village of Luncile Prigoanei from Alba County.
