The Aikido Chronicles
Ce fac 20 de români cu centuri negre la Tokyo sau despre motivație
Seara pe val. Fără jale. (Sau de ce să baţi drum până în Bali)
Practica de dragul practicii sau de ce să-ți dai copilul la arte marțiale
Writing for UNICEF
How mom said yes to vaccines
Over 19,000 people in Romania have been diagnosed with measles since 2016.
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COVID-19 parenting for the parentless
In Romania, about 12,000 children lacking parental care live in residential centres in the country’s child protection system. UNICEF delivered...
What’s up with grade 8A?
The transition to 9th grade is a milestone. Who prepares those in most need of help?
It’s in the mail
UNICEF partners with the Romanian Post to inform vulnerable families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How ninth graders learn confidence
How we can set vulnerable children up for a good, otherwise less likely, high-school experience.
The long road to high school
In rural areas, children commute for hours each day to attend high school. But before they reach that level of education, they need to believe they can.
Why Didina had her children vaccinated
Didina is both mom and dad to her seven children. None of the three fathers ever come to see them. But that, in Didina’s home, has never been an issue.
Flowers for mom. The story of Andreea Ursaru
She is 20, mother of four and has never been given flowers. Other things are far more pressing.
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Social aid brings renewed hope to families in Romania
How door-to-door visits are helping families get the healthcare and education resources they need
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How a new app streamlines care for vulnerable families in Romania
A new tablet application helps provide social services by maintaining up-to-date information on families and children
Social services in Romania give a young mother a helping hand
UNICEF pilot model provides healthcare, social protection, education and community based services
O clasă separată, doar pentru copii romi, într-o magazie...
Mame singure care cresc 7 copii și îi trimit la școală. Mame care cresc cu bucurie și o putere incredibilă frați cu dizabilități grave. Am văzut femei rome cu puțină școală descriind diagnostice complicate de cancer și zbătându-se pentru copiii lor.
The Midsummer Solstice Chronicles
În noaptea de Sânziene, în tren, am atins prima oară misterul
Vintilă Mihăilescu: „Prin anii 1980, în plină Cântarea României, niște dascăli din satul respectiv, supărați că localitatea lor nu câștiga nici un premiu, s-au hotărât să readucă la viață Sânzienele, de care bătrânii satului își mai aduceau aminte. Drept care au recurs...la Cantemir! Au citit cu gri…
The Contemporary Dance Chronicles
Stardust and unicorns in “37 minutes of make believe”
Andreea Novac is not your ordinary dancer. She welcomes you to her show, invites you to make yourself at home then says she’ll be right back. And as the mostly female […]
"Dancing Ring - One to All," the accidental love affair with a speaker
She stands petite, charcoal black clad, almost undefined against the pitch black curtains, face to face with an invested object of desire: a speaker. And then dialogue, more like the passion, ensues. She approaches inquiringly, looks into […]
What's in a "Torsion"?
The title is, actually, very accurate. The show is about the act of twisting and turning. As with all metaphors, it’s all in the how. It opens to grand Hollywood airs, the ‘30s type you expect grand cabaret ballet corps […]
On engagement, with delicate instruments
I just stepped onto the set of George Michael’s Freedom, Cindy Crawford at my feet, arms over chest in pop icon bathtub pose. Meters away, Linda Evangelista stretches against the wall, looking to the side, just like in Michael’s music video. […]
"We are all lichens" made me clean my closet
Walking into the set of We are lichens is like an immersion into a languid version of Children of men. Still dark and unkempt to dirtiness, but without the structure and the drama. Precisely what the title advertises. Although, there is another layer […]
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