Amaro Tan school


The private Christian school Amaro Tan offers education, shelter and care for poor and needy children, regardless of their religion, gender or ethnic origin. Primarily Gypsy and physically and mentally disabled children attend Amaro Tan from kindergarten to 8th grade. Intensive contacts with the parents and relief programs for the families are an important addition to the school programme, and give the children a chance to break the vicious circle of poverty and indifference, and counteracts abuse and child trafficking.

The school was founded in 2002 by the NGO "Youth with a Mission". In order to combine capacities, provide sustainability and to add efficiency, Nehemia agreed to take over the project from January 2008, including the financial responsibility.










SITUATION


Roma children and children from poor families often do not attend public schools, but must work instead by begging. Victims of discrimination and without support of their indifferent and impoverished families, these children have little chance to grow up as psychologically healthy individuals. All too often this makes them easy prey for human trafficking - a dramatic problem in the small Balkan country. Amaro Tan helps children to experience and learn the values that are so desperately lacking in their homes and families.
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