Word from TON President With this TON annual report 2017, we present you the results of an exciting and stimulating year for our network. At one hand we developed our constitutional capacity with growing leaders in the different TON departments. The spring regional trainings are a testimony of it. Furthermore, the TONNE national training in SlatinaTimis brought the whole network together in celebrating as well 5-year TON. The different local groups are improving their activities and the network is still growing every year. In the spirit of the Belgian-Romanian cooperation, we further concluded collaboration contracts with new partners as there are CARP-OMENIA, InfoCons, Colectiv 30.10, and the cooperation between ADR and TON is strengthened. Together we were co-organizers and participants of a successful 6th Forum on decentralized cooperation between Belgium and Romania in Mons,
Belgium. Project wise we further were a trustable and appreciated partner in the RE-InVEST project. We created a lot of visibility by the homecare project where the funding from Switzerland ended in 2017, but all partners decided to continue and even enlarge the project on social and medical homecare in the future. A real Business Plan is in preparation. Further, new project proposals were discussed and launched in 2017. We are grateful to all our sponsors and supporters. It’s every year a huge job to find the needed money to grow. That is the reason we started a workgroup fundraising within ADR-Vlaanderen. On the other hand, we try to be as visible and present as possible. We are working on a plan for “TON ambassadors” starting up in 2018. The support of the Belgian Embassy in Romania as of the Romanian Embassy in Belgium was really appreciated. We also started to incorporate other embassies in Romania to work together, as we try to get the parliamentarians of Romania and Belgium to be more involved and collaborate again. In fact, ADR/TON are the real ambassadors of Flanders in Romania and visible and reachable for all groups of the society. With many thanks to our TON staff and volunteers. It’s not always easy working, but if you see the yearly growing results, it’s stimulating to continue. There is still a long way to go, but it’s nice to see the ownership of what we are setting up together is more and more situated in Romania, meaning the future is ours.
JOZEF GOEBELS President TON & ADR-Vlaanderen
Board
IOAN SURU
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MIHAELA HICHE
MARIA PRUTIEANU
DANIELA CEREDEEV