Adrian is an 11-year-old boy from a vulnerable community in Romania. Becoming a footballer is his biggest dream, but at the same time, he is very aware of the importance of education. “Knowledge is power and I can’t get very far without education. I need to learn both the Romanian language and Mathematics,” Adrian says.

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Andreea is a chatty and curious 11-year-old girl from a village in Romania. She wakes up at 6.30 AM, sometimes even before her mother, because she likes to get to school before everyone else. Her favourite subjects are Romanian language, Biology and English.

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Eduard is a 12-year-old boy from Romania, leaving in a small house with his family, just five minutes away from school. The place is tiny so they live all cramped up, but it’s all they can afford. Maria, Eduard’s mother, has been the sole provider for the family for several months now, as her husband has serious problems with his spine and can’t work any longer. His life is all about sports. He enjoys cycling around the neighbourhood, playing football and basketball in the schoolyard.

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Cristina is a 16-year-old girl from Romania who joined the Future Acceleration Program three years ago. Her first group interaction was at the summer camp. She says it was quite unforgettable because she made many friends with whom she got along. In her early beginnings into the program, the tutoring lessons in Romanian language, Mathematics, and then English, helped her improve a lot for the national evaluation that she was going to take at the end of the 8th grade. Cristina's mother says that: “they came in very handy because I couldn’t afford to pay for her tutoring lessons and everyone was doing so for their children."

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Daniel, now in the 10th grade at a high school in a small city in Romania, has been part of the Future Acceleration Program ever since he was in the 8th grade. He is passionate about computer science and this is why he chose to pursue science studies in high school - he will major in Mathematics and Informatics. Another stop in his path is the summer camp he went to in 2021: "we talked about ways of improving our self-confidence, communication languages, teamwork, how to be a good listener, what studies or qualifications are required for a certain job or how to think long term about something.”

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Ciprian Tehei is the foundation’s local coordinator in Cluj, Romania. He’s been working with and for children for 22 years: from foster care centres or in rural areas, where he has engaged in community development activities. For three years now, he has been constantly in touch with the 36 children enrolled in the Future Acceleration Program and with their parents. He likes the fact that he can help set up a safety net, which he thinks is built around every child that is part of the program. Ciprian believes that: “we are setting up that safety net to support the children and their families escape and overcome the vulnerabilities they are facing when entering the program.”

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