The Cultural Humanitarian Foundation
SOCIABILITY, SYMPATHY, SERVICE, SALVATION
The Cultural Humanitarian Foundation Sociability, Sympathy, Service, Salvation, in brief SO.SI.SE.SA., was founded on the 15th of November 1996, when a group of experts in economy, sociology, politology, social services, IT and law united their forces in hope of changing the world.
Humanitarian actions are a special type of interpersonal relationships in which the partners are perfectly unequal. Each part takes on a role and the result is always the improvement of both sides’ situations: the recipients undergo a recovery from the troublesome situation they were in before, and the authors of the humanitarian action get the satisfaction that is provided by doing a good deed which improved the life of a human being.
What we have noticed and what led us to the initiative of creating this humanitarian foundation was the mainly wrong perspective on which humanitarian actions are based in Romania. The main fundamental governing in this case seems to be local and occasional satisfaction of basic stringent needs regarding food, clothes or, very rare, housing. The authors see themselves as little Gods and the recipients translate the occasional crumbs they get as normality.
Our main objective is to change this perspective! The humanitarian action must me a multidimensional, ongoing and well sustained program which must have as a result a real change in the standard of living, lifestyle and value system for a group which finds itself in social difficulty.
Our attention is focused on the following issues:
- Poverty as a lifestyle
- Resignation when it comes to unequal opportunities and to improve living conditions
- Professional exclusion and social outcast of people with physical or mental disabilities
- Abandonment of children from social care institutions who have reached the age of 18 and are forced to start a life on their own