Fundatia ADEPT, funded by The Marcela Trust, started the Angofa Nature School Project that will allow schoolchildren from Municipality Sighisoara, and more widely from towns/cities such as Cristur Secuiesc, Targu Mures, Medias, to enjoy nature classes in a modern and innovative nature school. The goal of the project is to provide a nature school to teach schoolchildren from classes VIII-XI about the importance of the natural heritage, and of keeping their environment clean. This will be one of the very few purpose-built nature schools in Romania. The schoolhouse was purchased by ADEPT in 2016, and is being restored in 2018. We have the funding to start the work, but we seek co-finance to finish the restoration and instal the latest nature and environment teaching equipment.

Once completed, from mid-2018, the school will carry out regular classes using the purpose-built facilities, backed by field activities in the area surrounding the schoolhouse. Schoolchildren will learn about plants and animals, and about how they depend on man’s care of the environment to survive; and how a clean environment offers healthy food, air and water, and a better quality of life. The project will support teachers to use the centre to deliver a “Scoala altfel”, and offer teacher training so that they can continue interesting environment classes in their own schools.