Asociatia Socio-Culturala "Sfantul Ioan Botezatorul" Berbesti is a non-profit organization, created in 2010 by the priest from our local church “Sfantul Ioan Botezatorul” to provide help for the people in need. That is why the area of our activity is a very wide one, starting with social, volunteering work and offering educational support when needed. We identify the most urgent problems of the population in our town and try to offer them help and support. And since 2011 we also function as adult educational training organisation.
The organization is situated in a miner town in Sub Carpathian area in south-west of Romania. The mining was the main activity of the local people till the year 1995 when it started reducing its activity and personnel. A lot of people found themselves without job and any other qualification. The Mine is going to close their activity next year (so Authorities claim) leaving behind a lot of unemployed people.
Closing of the mine creates the following issues which need our active and urgent intervention:

- Lack of possibilities to find other jobs in the area. The closest town where people can seek for a job is 80km away;
- A large number of unemployed people, who were working at the mine for their entire life;
- Working their entire life in the mine those people were totally disconnected from the modern requirements of the labour market. They are not updated with the new forms of Curriculum Vitae, they lack digital skills, they are not aware of their own skills or abilities, they are disorientated and do not know where and how to start over.
All these reasons make unemployed people from our area our main target group.

DANNY’S pizzeria restaurant is a family owned traditional fish & chips in the town in central Ireland named Athlone, located by the River Shannon in Co. Westmeath.
Athlone has a population of approx. 25000 people and it has all the facilities that you would associate with a large town, ie. shopping facilities, night entertainment and of course eating out. Athlone is part of County Westmeath which has an area of 710 square miles and a population of almost 62.000 people. Athlone offers a great opportunity for tourists to spend their holidays in a pleasant way visiting Castles, Shannon River cruises and more.
Danny’s Pizzeria, Restaurant and Takeaway Limited was set up on Friday the 12th of October 2018, has 2 shareholders, the status is Normal and the Principal Activity is [8690] Other Human Health Activities and is trading as Danny’s Pizzeria Restaurant and Takeaway LTD having us as Company Directors: Daniel V. Bolos-Ciocan and Felicia-A Bolos-Ciocan. We have started working in the pizzeria & restaurant field 14 years ago as employee and slowly we took over a pizzeria business and we have created our own customer base. We are offering a variety of food in our menu such as: traditional fish & chips, burgers, pizza, kebabs, finger food, deserts. Our customers have the options to sit down and enjoy the food in the premises, to order for collection take away or to order home food delivery through phone or online orders. Quality and customer service leads us to results, as happy customers is our main goal and we are open to learn and explore from other business owners. We have over 14 years’ food business experience, our staff is well trained, at the moment we have 5 staff and during our busy seasons we also hire extra staff to rich high customer service.

What kind of vulnerable people we have in our area?
There are a variety of vulnerable people in our area but our main target are Roma people, so the category of vulnerable people that we have decided to work with in our area Athlone, co. Westmeath, Ireland are Roma people. In general, people have a miss conception about Roma, a lot of them are willing to work but they are finding it very hard as no one will hire them, so that’s why we have decided to try to help them.
The Roma people are a significant ethnic minority, they are subject of severe discrimination, social exclusion, and poverty. Due to their deplorable living conditions, isolation, and widespread antigipsism, Roma are among the most affected category in our area that we have decided to work with.
Roma face housing discrimination, work access discrimination, lack of access to mortgages and loans, high housing coast, overcrowding, lack of improved forms of sanitation, insecurity of tenure, evictions, and territorial isolation. High unemployment and informal jobs are characteristic of this population. Roma families frequently live from day to day and survive without protection by engaging in precarious, frequently irregular activities. Most of the jobs are informal, short-term activities that belong to the informal economy. Roma encounters several barriers to accessing long-term jobs, discrimination and negative attitudes from professionals, cultural misunderstanding, language barriers and low levels of literacy. For the reasons mentioned above we will work with this category of vulnerable people, trying to eliminate the barriers to employment and create a diverse workplace for Roma ethnic minority in our local community.

MAKING ART SRL is a commercial company with the main field of activity 9602 - Hairdressing and other beautification activities, and as secondary fields: 9602 - Body maintenance activities; 8559- Other forms of education
Founded in 2015, the company carried out its activity in a generous space of approximately 80 square meters (Celia salon) equipped with work points in the field of barbering, hairdressing, manicure, pedicure, cosmetics, massage. During the 8 years of activity, the company served approximately 2450 people who benefited from beautification services.
Currently, the company has 4 employees with a work contract of 8 hours/day and 6 collaborators for all the services offered in the field: hairdressing, barbershop, manicure, pedicure, beautician, massage technician, makeup artist.

MAKING ART SRL also organized during the period 2015-2024 various internships with adult professional training collaborators in the field of beautification, thus approximately 520 beneficiaries obtained qualifications in various occupations such as hairdresser, barber, manicurist, pedicurist. , beautician, massage technician, make-up artist.
MAKING ART SRL is also authorized for consulting and project management.
In the period 2020-2024, the need for labor in the field of beautification has become deeper due to the consequences created by COVID 19 as well as the war situation in Ukraine, so that many employers have called on the services of refugees from this country as well as the retraining of young unemployed people remain without a job.
Making ART SRL collaborated during this period with various employers for the training, counseling and mediation of this target group in order to employ them in the field.
More than 520 people - of which approximately 45% from among the young unemployed NEETS and/or the long-term unemployed and 6% from the Roma minority - have so far benefited from the services offered by MAKING ART SRL
The main dominant category of vulnerable groups in our area are NEETS young people, young people who want to work in the beauty field.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.