OvidiuRO’s mission is to make quality early education available to every child in Romania.

Your support is more critical than ever in our mission to reach all children and raise future generations of readers.

The child’s brain needs stimulation to develop, and success in school is largely dependent on early life experiences. Children who grow up in families with no books, a very common situation in poor communities, are already behind at the beginning of first grade, and the risk of dropping out of school is very high.

To reduce the school abandonment rate in Romania, Asociatia OvidiuRO committed two years ago to transform every gradinita into a “Kinder-Library” by 2025 – replete with quality children’s books and daily read-aloud activities to kindle children’s imaginations and instill a desire to learn to read for themselves.

As of September 2022, almost 3,000 kindergartens have enrolled in the “Read Me 100 Stories” initiative; 15,000 teachers have participated in online training; and 1,966 kindergartens have been certified as Kinder-Libraries, with a permanent library corner of at least 30 books – and teachers trained to use them effectively.

Now, our challenge is to reach over 1,200 kindergartens with a high percentage of school dropouts from disadvantaged rural areas – that have not signed up yet to join the “Read Me 100 Stories” program. 

Your support is more critical than ever in our mission to reach all children and raise future generations of readers.