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In January, we told our students thatthey are the pioneers in creating anew solution for a successful integra­tion.We have been successfully providinglife skills and vocational skill trainingsto homeless youths. But these skills

are not enough. Still many youthsfall back on the streets when notfinding jobs or their qualificationsdon't match the demands of labourmarket. Also the conomic crisis cre­ates an impossible condition as wellas affecting the fundings and dona­tions to maintain the services.

The idea of social enterprise hasbecome a promising solution in bothsolving economic and service is­sues, that applies businessstrategies to achieving philanthropicgoals.We modeled the training programsbased on a simplified social andeconomic behaviour in today'sworld. Providing the students withrealistic look at the job­businessmarket they must live in and givesfirst­hand experience in creating andworking with the social issues whichwill dominate their lives.From this "micro­society" world, weare now moving to the real world.Between June to August, all stu­dents will have to attend certifiedvocational courses of their ownchoice as well are related to the jobmarket. During this time we are pre­paring for the social enterprise es­tablishment to start in September.

January FebruaryOur 3rd year of providinglife and work skills for youthstarted with 10 new stu­dents and we added onenew skill domain (Work &Entreprenerial skills).In our two years of effortsto prepare ho­meless youthto exit the streets, life andvocational skills are notenough. The youths are stillfalling back on the streetswhen not finding jobs ortheir qualification doesn'tmatch the demands of thecurrent labour market.We are creating togetherwith them, the needed finalstage of integration, a com­plete program providing lifeskills entrepreneurial know­ledge and opportunitiesleading to jobs.Our modified “Life Skills &Entrepreneurial Center"pro­vides sustainable op­

To install the new heatingsystem, was converted in­to real time learning.Changed to a wood pelletburner. The 2000 liter dies­el tank removed and re­placed with one big pelletdistribution box.To design the box, visualspatial skill was taught bypracticing with different ob­jects and shapes. Per­spective drawings andorthographic projection.When fixing in one place,breaks somewhere else.The water pump broke,and the old radiators weretoo small. The youthslearned about wiring, re­place a water pump, andto install heating radiators.What type of vocationalskills do the youths want?In the career planning ses­sions, they identified comic

This year our beneficiariesare the pioneers in creat­ing the new entrepreneurskill domain.United Way of Romania in­vited us to participate inthe public Easter exhibi­tion, to produce decorationmaterials. The exhibitionwas held for five days indifferent companies. Anexcellent opportunity to ex­ercise within a workingroutine with the help of ournewly created "depart­ments". "Recreation &Sport" assigned and pre­pared the location for eachspace. TV room was con­verted to a "carpentry"workshop to manufacture75 picture frames andpaint 50 spoons. Computerroom for the productionand painting different typesof masks. The Activityroom for 50 paper hats.

AMURT Romania modelsit's training program on so­cial and economic beha­viour of today's world. Weimplement a curriculum us­ing a departmental flow­chart.The departments created,various forms, storage, leg­al and business systemsare designed to facilitatethe transactions and nego­tiation between youths thatmanage those depart­ments.This so­called "micro­soci­ety­business school"provides students with real­istic look at the job­busi­ness market they must livein and gives first­hand ex­perience in creating andworking with the institutionswhich will dominate theirlives.A "microsociety" learning

GRASSROOTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP & LIFE SKILLS | AMURT Romania | January to May 2012

5 SKILL DOMAINS­ Daily living skills­ Self­care & Personal develop.­ House & Communty resources­ Social image & Relationships­ Work & Entreprenerial skills

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MISSION STATEMENTEncourage and facilitate selfdevelopment among vulner­able people through immedi­ate actions and programmsthat lead to their socio­eco­nomic independence.

PLAN FOR 2012Curriculum:• Innovative visual and practical

tools.Vocational training:• Certified courses.Entrepreneurship:• Start your own business.Investments:• Heating system: new wood burner

and central system.• Furniture: kitchen and beds.• Social enterprise: create and

construct.Partners & Sponsors:

• Unted Way of Romania• Ministry of Labour (Law 34)• DGASMB (Bucharest)• AMURT Italy, Portugal and UK• Ateliere Fara Frontiere, FORChildren, Parada Fundatia

March April

portunities to earn a livingby developing innovativelearning tools to help learnto support young peopleand make safe and healthydecisions that positivelyimpact their lives.The number of skills do­mains are reduced to fiverepresent­ing the five basicnecessities: food, clothes,health, shelter and educa­tion. The five skills arecombined into three basiclearning kits.

characters related to differ­ent professions.Direction of activities resul­ted in a "microcosm of so­ciety" where the youthwere exposed to the out­side world through theirown activities of rudiment­ary company manage­ment. Starting with"Design and Planning" de­partment and executingthe plans through otherdepartments, made thelearning fun, challengingand interesting.

Item wise it was a simpletask but the learning towork with a routine, artist­ically, creatively, and in acoordinated manner, wasthe challenge. Theweather was sunny andsome of the productionswere done outside thebuilding. A pleasing "familyindustry" atmospherewhere small talks, gossips,coffee and tea are in­cluded. Gave the what asocial enterprise will be,feel like.

environment enablesyouths to apply classroomknowledge to real worldsettings, for example, man­age a storage, accounts,news paper, public relation,marketing, making de­cision, starting a business,and paying bills, etc. Be­comes realistic when run­ning the daily life skill tasksin maintaining the Centre,shopping, cooking, clean­ing, and learning differentvocational skills.

Design & Informatics Repair & Construction

Maintenance&Transp.

Storage & Information Buy & Account

Things start from anidea, then to a designwhich shows thehowto. Combinedwith informatics is todesign a system thatdelivers the right in­formation, to the rightperson in the rightplace and time, in theright way.

Repairing and con­structing housing fa­cilities. Maintenancechecks daily the con­ditions and reportsthings to fix. Smallrenovations, fixingthe roof, paintingwalls and occasionallarger construction ofrooms.

Work in coordinationwith the Center'sneeds to develop ag­riculture and garden­ing. Small industriesto help make self­sufficient economic­ally. Close coopera­tion with the SalesDepartment in themarketing.

Items such as food,clothes and con­struction items is adaily transaction inthe Center. Itemshave to be recordedwhen arriving anddistributed. Also re­coding the detailssuch as size, colorand cost price.

To maintain an up­dated record of costprices of regularlypurchased items,such as food, clean­ing and personal.Simple bookkeeping:assets, liabilities, in­come, and expensesand to provide netand worth reports.

Recreation & Sport Media & PRSecurity&RegistrationSales & Marketing

Creates and super­vise the establish­ment and main­tenance of the Cen­ter's businesses op­erations. Creating,communicating, de­livering, and exchan­ging offerings thathave value for cus­tomers and partners.

Security to provideprotection againstdanger, damage,loss, and crime:"safety, continuity,and reliability". To re­gister peoples com­ing and going,activities and duties ­starting and endingdates.

Relates to the up­keep of propertiesand building. Re­cords the conditionof furnitures androoms, operates theheating system andthe clothes washingmachine. Findsolution for transportof items and people.

The "need to dosomething" is an es­sential element ofhuman biology andpsychology. To findand create recre­ational and sportactivities for enjoy­ment, amusement,and health.

This news paper isthe work of this de­partment. To promotean inspiring image ofAMURT in the eye ofthe public ­­ cordialrelationships withgovernment, NGOs,newspapers, radioand television sta­tions.

LIFE SKILLS

Farm & Industry Pro

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Certified Vocational Skill TrainingJUNE TO AUGUST 2012

WORK SKILLS

SEPTEMBER TODECEMBER

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