School Attendance Initiative In Romania, there are an estimated
300,000-400,000 children of compulsory school age who do not go
to school regularly. The EU has estimated that 40% of 15 year
olds in Romania are semi-literate. In most cases, these children
are from families living in poverty, with parents who themselves
did not get much education, and often come from the Roma
community. Children who grow up without a decent education, find
themselves in a life-long struggle against poverty, social
exclusion and marginalisation. Studies have shown that: In
mid-2010, UNICEF in partnership with the Ministry of Education,
Research, Youth and Sport, and the Institute of Educational
Sciences, launched the School Attendance Campaign (later to be
called “Initiative”) with the aim of getting children back to
school and supporting them to complete the compulsory years of
schooling. At Family Level parents are involved in school
affairs and are made aware of the importance of education. They
are trained to develop their p