The objectives consisted in realising an empowerment co-creating educational model regarding reading and story telling for a minimum 60 learners from different social groups, in 22 months of the curent project, intervention on the social growing to fight deprivation of 105 beneficiars by the use of reading and Story Telling during 20 months of the project, enabling the 5 partner organizations to implement monthly activities of social inclusion and growing self-esteem for minimum 200 direct and indirect beneficiers during 22 months of the project.The project adresses to minimum 60 people, mainly from social groups at risk(12 *5 organizations) that are the direct beneficiers(learners) and also around 105 indirect beneficiers.(25*5 organizations). The project promotes the social inclusion , volunteering and lifelong learning principles by offering an alternative of education through reading and story telling activities.
The project TRUST(Therapy through Reading and Use of Story Telling) involved 5 organizations from Romania, Belgium,Portugal and Bulgaria. TRUST project aimed to reduce the social exclusion of people, mainly women, coming from marginalised contexts(rural areas, migrants) and to regain the trust of people in common activities and cooperation after the severe period of izolation from pandemia. The partner organisations had experience in social inclusion and women activities. Through the activities of the project we created an integrated system where volunteers and experts could work together for providing social services and reintegration. The statistics reflecting a low interest in reading among Romanian and Bulgarian adults brought the idea of the curent project as a way to promote volunteering, personal development and civic integration. Also, each organization wanted to enlarge its network of partners at the European level, to develop the skills of the staff to implement various projects and activities for their members.