About Us

Relaxing in our courtyard

Relaxing in our courtyard

School For Life Romania and Scoala Pentru Viata (our sister Romanian registered Humanitarian Foundation) were founded in the summer of 1994 by a small group of Romanian teachers and U.K. volunteers who were working in the then neuropsychiatric hospital for 510 children in Siret, Romania, since 1991.

School For Life Romania in the UK, provide Scoala Pentru Viata in Romania with financial support, skill sharing opportunities and advice.

Scoala Pentru Viata is staffed and directed by Romanians who continue to develop a working model for the education of people with special educational needs who suffered institutional privation, neglect and abuse throughout child into adulthood. In addition, life skills support, supported housing and employment support is offered.

Scoala Pentru Viata works with the residents and ex residents of the adult psychiatric hospital, who all grew up in the now closed children’s neuropsychiatric hospital which at its height in 1986 housed over one thousand, three hundred and ten children.

Learning cooking skills through play

Learning cooking skills through play

Hard at work

Hard at work