By Gabriela Popescu | Project Leader
Sometimes, the hardest reports to write are the ones where progress has been slower than we hoped.
This is one of those moments.
Over the past months, our team worked continuously to secure the resources needed for the Tablets for Disadvantaged Children in Romania initiative. However, due to insufficient funds and the absence of dedicated sponsors, we were unable to procure and distribute devices to the children who need them most.
Yet the need has not disappeared.
The children waiting have not disappeared.
And their stories are still unfolding.
Ana is twelve years old and lives in a small village tucked between rolling hills and long unpaved roads. The view is beautiful. The opportunities… less so.
Every morning, she walks 2 kilometers to school, her shoes often muddy, her notebooks worn thin from reuse.
But in the afternoons—when homework now requires online research, or reading materials shared only electronically—Ana is cut off from the world other children access with a single tap.
Her family shares an old phone with a cracked screen and limited data.
When the network disappears, which happens often, Ana simply closes her book and whispers:
“Maybe tomorrow I can try again.”
Tomorrow.
Always tomorrow.
For children like Ana, a tablet is not a luxury.
It is:
When children don’t have access to digital tools, they fall behind—not because they lack talent or ambition, but because the world is running faster than the resources around them.
Ana doesn’t dream of becoming famous or rich.
She dreams of becoming a nurse, “to help people the way nobody helped us,” she says shyly.
But without a device, her homework, digital textbooks, and online school platforms remain out of reach.
Although the project did not move forward in procurement, it has reminded us of something crucial:
Digital exclusion is one of the most painful forms of modern poverty.
We remain committed to this project because the children who wait for it are real, and their needs grow each month.
We learned:
Most importantly, we learned that this project matters—deeply and urgently.
The reason we have not been able to deliver tablets yet is simple:
we need support.
Every contribution—no matter how small—brings us one step closer to placing a device in the hands of a child like Ana.
A single tablet can:
We still believe in this project.
And with your help, Ana’s “maybe tomorrow” can become “today I learned something new.”
Thank you for staying with us—even in a moment where our update is about waiting, not completion.
Your kindness keeps this dream alive.
Together, we can still change the story.
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