Valori de Bine Association
We're here for children and young people. And we stay by their side.
We dedicate our time and resources to children and young people who lack parental care, are in the child-protection system or come from families going through hard times.
We help them with school, respond to concrete needs and walk alongside them when they have choices to make about their future. We want them to have education, care, opportunities and the natural joys of childhood.
With your help, we can keep going.
Discover Valori de Bine
Who we are
A community of people alongside children and young people
"Every child deserves normality, education, support and simple joys — the things that bring safety, confidence and beauty into their life."
We are an association dedicated to children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds — children left without their parents' support, raised by grandparents or in the child-protection system.
We work through five directions that complement each other: education, health, vocation, joys and community. We want to build around each child steady, coherent support, not just isolated interventions.
In practice, that means a child helped with homework, a teenager talking to a mentor about their future, a medical check-up done in time, a workshop where a child finds the courage to say "I did it!", or a meeting with a professional who shows them that there are several possible paths in life.
Our mission
"Before a child can launch their first paper plane, they need someone to sit beside them and show them how to fold it."
Where children start, and what we build
Many of the children we work with start from gaps other children never encounter. Our role is to turn these gaps, step by step, into support, confidence and the natural experiences of childhood.
Where children start
- Separation from family or the loss of a parent
- Limited access to educational support and learning resources
- Low confidence in their own abilities
- A lack of positive role models and trusted adults
- Few of childhood's natural experiences: birthdays, outings, camps
What we build together
- Steady guidance and support from people who stay close
- Safe relationships with committed adults and volunteers
- Mentoring, career orientation and positive role models
- Workshops that grow confidence, skills and curiosity
- Childhood's natural moments: birthdays, outings, toys and camps
The context we work in
15.5% of young people in Romania leave education early.
Source: Eurostat, 2025. Indicator on young people aged 18 to 24 who have at most lower secondary education and are not in education or training.
Our values
Dignity
The children and young people we work with are not "cases". They are people with names, stories, needs and potential. We treat them with respect and build our programmes starting from what matters to them.
Consistency
We believe change is built over time. A mentor who is present month after month can mean more to a child than a single beautiful experience.
Transparency
We honour the trust our partners and donors place in us. We communicate openly about our activities, the results we achieve and how we use resources.
Responsibility
We choose to invest in programmes that answer real needs and can have long-term impact. We believe lasting change is built through patience, involvement and relationships of trust.
Our story
From homework support to programmes built around children's needs
The story of Valori de Bine began in 2020, during the pandemic, with hours of homework support for children who had fallen behind at school.
Working alongside them consistently, we understood that their needs go beyond homework help or occasional support. Children need continuity, encouragement, guidance and adults they can rely on.
After five years spent close to children, in April 2025 the Valori de Bine Association was officially founded in Bucharest. We started without funding, but with great dedication and the wish to build programmes that give children real, steady support adapted to their needs.
What comes next
We grow carefully, step by step, at the pace that lets us preserve the quality and continuity of the support we give each child. Together with our volunteers and partners, we aim to:
- 01
Now
In progressStrengthen what we have built
- Steady educational support for the children already in our programmes
- Programmes that are better organised and adapted to their needs
- 02
Over the next 2 years
PlannedGrow with care
- More children and young people supported
- Partnerships that sustain regular activities
- More learning materials and experiences
- 03
Long term
VisionBuild a stable model
- Education, mentoring and career guidance for more and more children and young people
- Steady support that carries on from one year to the next
Our vision
Every child growing up in a vulnerable background deserves the same real options as a child growing up in a family with resources — not because they were "rescued", but because they had, alongside them, adults who showed them what they could choose.
For these stories we carry on
I want to become a pastry chef, but I don’t know if there will be money for school… but when I come to the workshops, something lights up in me and I remember that maybe there is a chance.
I’m preparing for the national exams. The support I receive helps me learn, have more confidence in myself and understand better what I want to do next.
For the first time in my life, I had a birthday party. I was so happy that I could spend it with my friends here.
What we do, concretely
Our programmes
Our programmes complement each other and respond to the needs of children from vulnerable backgrounds, at different stages of their lives. We offer steady support and continuity, not just one-off activities.
- Education
Education
Every child deserves the support they need to stay close to school, catch up on what they missed and learn with more confidence.
- Health
Health
A child can learn and grow harmoniously when they feel well, are cared for and receive support for their basic needs.
- Vocation
Vocation
Every teenager needs people, examples and experiences that help them discover what suits them and which path they can take.
- Joys
Joys
Every child deserves to play, to celebrate and to gather beautiful memories. Sometimes, simple joys are the ones that stay with us the most.
- Community
Community
Real support is built together, through volunteers, partners and people who choose to stay close to children.
Who we work with
We don't work alone. Every programme grows alongside partners, professionals and volunteers who give time, resources, experience and opportunities to children.
Mentors and supporters
People who give their time and experience to be alongside children at homework, workshops and guidance meetings. Each of them can open a path a child wouldn't have discovered on their own.
Meet the people behind the programmes
Our impact so far
300+
children & young people supported
2000+
volunteer hours
7
programmes
Where resources go
How we use donations
Donations support learning-support sessions, workshop materials and mentoring meetings. In the association’s reports you can see the activities we have carried out and how we have used the funds.
See our reportsFrom our work
Real moments from our programmes
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the story with us?
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