Labdaros ir paramos fondas "Auginame ateitį"

National Network

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Address

Jogailos 12
01116 Vilnius
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Telephone

+37061436696

E-Mail

tadas@auginameateiti.lt

Organisation Type

Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation

Year of Establishment

1999

Fields of Activity

Youth and education

General Information

Charity and support foundation "Auginame ateitį" was established in 1999 and known as a foundation of wife of ex-President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus. Last years Mrs. Alma Adamkienė resigned from the managment of foundation and left it to Tadas Bojarskas, who worked as project manager for 8 years. At this time there is only one permanent staff member in fund - managing director Paulius Juočeris, but founder of foundation is also heavily involved. Also we have rotating volunteers. We have a budget of €50-100k. a year, but are hoping to expand that due to big inheritance. We're funded by different companies and private donators. We also time from time apply for state support for specific project. Our main partners and targets of activity are 40 rural schools.

Mission and Objectives

- To make conditions for students in rural schools better. There are lots of talented students in rural schools which suffer from outdated infrastructure and equipment and lack of opportunirties to develop students' talents. Our goal is to help them to buld safer and modern environment and to give more opportunities for talented students to reach higher.
- Also in rural locations culture and worldview are quite limited and it causes all kinds lack of tolerance issues. One of our goals is to change that.
- We are looking forward to find more partners abroad, where education is highly rated and bring all good practice to our supported schools for more effective managment and educational methods.

Main Projects / Activities

"Step into new year with a new book" - donating new fiction books to school libraries. Most of rural schools cannot afford to buy new books, neither children parents. The books we donate are often the only ones kids can access. This project is going for 15 years and we have spent ~€1M
Leadership, business, art programmes - we choose talented students from rural school and bring them to the camp in capital or near sea, where they can work and study with best proffesionals in respective field. We see this opportunity not only as developing skills and get some actual practice for students, but also as a motivational time, where kids from distant locations can understant what they can achieve in the future.
Renovation of stadiums/sport halls - working hand to hand with "Coca-cola" we had significant part in reconstruction of infrastructure in 7 rural schools. Most of these stadium and sport halls are built and not renovated since 80's or even older times.
Wide scale educational games - our this year project to encourage students to read books. Big game on internet platform involving mistery story written by known fiction writter and students performing different task which could be acomplished only with consulting books.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We hope it will help us to find reliable partners in outside Lithuania. And also to aplly for funds which are always needed in our activities.

Contact (1) Full Name

Tadas Bojarskas

Job Title

Founder

Head of the organisation

Paulius Juočeris