FOUNDING MEMBERS
Pro Vita Association is a nonprofit N.G.O. founded on the 20th January 1994 according to the Romanian law. The association was founded by the priest Nicolae Tanase and his wife Maria.
Activity
The main aim of the association is to take care, protect and educate the following categories of children in order to reintegrate them in the society:
* Children resulted after their mother’s accepted to avoid abortion. These children are confidentially given into care to the association for a shorter or longer period of time
* Children kept temporarily because they belong to families with social problems
Father Nicolae Tanase
* Children abandoned in hospitals because they have certain deficiencies and who are on the way to recovery. These children are also given into care to families in the villages Valea Plopului and Valea Screzii
* Homeless children
* Young people thrown out of orphanage because they are 18 years old. They are involved in labor activities
The activity takes place in villages Valea Plopului and Valea Screzii from Pasesti, Prahova district, in a mixt system:
* familiar placement (cildren given into custody to local village families)
* children living in the parish house who are taken care by the stuff of the association and the voluteers
The total number of assisted persons belonging to the hence before categories is around 200
Staff
Pro Vita Association has as permanent members a secretary, a social assistant, personal to takes care of the children, the kitchen, the laundry and the transportation
Volunteers from different layers of the society: engineers, architects, priests, teachers, students, artists, doctors and farmers
The permanent stuff is selected from local people
Material resources
* The land 20,000 mp given into concession by the town hall of Posesti
* Several local-village houses that we own
* Several rented houses in the village with small rents
* Carpentry, sculpture and paintings workshops
* Three ovens for bread
* An old van in need of permanent repair
Financial resources
* The families in the village that participate to the free feeding and assistance
* Our own financial means resulted from commercialisation of objects of cult produced by young girls from the orphanage
* Occasional sponsorship
* Voluntary action for fun raising organized and led by priest Nicolae Tanase
Directions of developpement
* The improvement of living conditions and social assistance
* The erection of new structures, well equipped, because the number of people in demand of our care is increasing
* The equipment with medical apparatus and medicine for everyday use
* The organisation of a transportation network for schoolchildren, stuff, food and medicine
By contacting us in time you can spend several days in the summer camp, living with our way of being.
The association also take care of women turned to the gate by their families until they solve their problems
The children with material problems living in the adjacent areas or coming from other counties are also helped by our association.
Yearly summer camps are organized by our association in the Orthodox spirit and preserving the Romanian traditions.
Visit us at Valea Plopului and Valea Screzii ( by Valenii de Munte, County Prahova)
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THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND THE ACTIVITY OF THE PRO-VITA ORGANIZATION FOR BORN AND UNBORN
It is called an unborn child the human being, irrespective of his/her origin, conceived in a natural or artificial wanner, in or out of the motherly womb, before he or she is born.
1. The human being is a human being from the moment of conception.
2. We have to live there, where God settled for us to be born.
3. The unborn has the rights as the born one.
4. Avoiding conception is not less harmful then helling life.
5. The good is good of it is done well.
6. There is no place like a mother’s home.
7. Any unborn child has the right to a natural pregnancy period and development and has the right to be born.
8. God has endowed all people with an inherent dignity from the moment of creation, of their conception, that is in the moment of conceiving in or outside the motherly womb.
9. Any unborn child has right, irrespective of race, colour of the skin gender, language, religion, political opinions, world views, national ethnic or social back round, property or another status, that repers to the parents of the unborn or to his guardians.
With a view to protect any child, effective measures have to be taken against any action, scientific or of any other sort that wight endanger the health, the development and the well being of the unborn.
It is our duty to ensure to the unborn all the rights that the other human beings have, especially the inherent right to life and protection.
It is our duty to fight for the inherent right of the unborn to live and strive to support his/her survival and development in accordance with our means.
It is duty to fight in order to encourage or support any jurisdiction that forbids the following medical or non medical aggressions against the human being from his/her moment of conception, namely:
- cloning
- the transfer of pre embryo or embryo to something else theam human mother
- the selection of gender
- ectogenesis
- provoked abortion
- the use of human foetus as transplant instead of same that have had a natural death or have been thrown out by spontaneous abortion.
- Other harmful interventions on the human pre-embryo.
We think that an unborn that suffers from disease congenital or other sort, must not be exposed to interventions that would mean a drawback to his development, but we must support all scientific contribution and its application that focus on the well being of the unborn.
In writing this text, we have had in view:
“The Declaration of the Unborn Child’s Rights” proposed in the World Congress for Life – Oslo 10-13 May 1990
“The U.N.O. Declarations”
“The Declaration of the Right of the Unborn in Geneve” – 1924
“The International Conventions on Human Rights”
“The Declaration as the Child’s Rights” in 1959
“The Convention as to the Child’s rights” 1988
“The World Federal Medical Organization from Geneve” 1948
The principles and rules as to experiments on human being as they were sustained in Helsinki in 1964 and 1975.