The pontoon does not often go to the water

The pontoon does not often go to the water

PATRICK ANDRÉ DE HILLERIN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2021, 1:02 AM

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The pontoon does not often go to the water

Raluca Turcan found time, in her busy schedule, to participate on September 22, 2021 in the fast cutting of the inaugural ribbon of a pontoon / itinerant center for treating children with disabilities in the Danube Delta. The pontoon in question was arranged by the SERA Foundation, with money from the sponsor Penny (Rewe Group), about 120,000 euros, and from European funds. The pontoon was also included in the documents of the European-funded project "Always in the family - a project to reduce institutionalization, the risk of separation and to ensure local recovery services for children in Tulcea County", a project with a total value of 5,954,979.39 lei.

SERA is one of the oldest associations / foundations operating in post-revolutionary Romania, its founder, François de Combret, being among those first Westerners who saw the potential of international adoptions. In fact, until the moratorium that stopped international adoptions, SERA was one of the main exporters of children in Romania, which was also declared by the former European official Rollie Post and supported by its head at the time, European Commissioner Günter Verheugen.

After cutting the pipeline for international adoptions, SERA struggled for a while with the system to reopen its baby faucet, then reoriented and began to get good money from the Romanian state, the EU, UNICEF, the World Bank and other institutional funders, as well as from private sponsors. This money went to projects related to child protection and social assistance, childcare centers for children with disabilities and the like, as well as many hundreds of hours of seminars and workshops.unnecessary sums, healthy salaries of employees. For example, in 2020, the net salary of the executive director of the SERA Romania Foundation was 200,200 lei per year, to which was added a small sum of 51,870 lei for the management and coordination of projects on European funds. In total, 21,000 lei per month, net. A beautiful amount, which the executive director of SERA practically doubles, with an indemnity of 21,840 lei per month, which he receives as president of the Economic and Social Council.

But who is this benefactor of the children, this good Samaritan who, in exchange for only 42,840 lei per month, takes care of the children, and of the whole council that analyzes the draft laws, decisions and ordinances?

Bogdan Simion is called the charity and has been running the SERA for many years, wandering through the good world of people who do not work for the state, but have very good connections with the state, their organizations being heavily funded with public money. Using the long-standing friendship that binds the SERA foundation to Ludovic Orban and vice versa, Bogdan Simion obtained, on December 30, 2019, the status of public utility association, through the signature of Violeta Alexandru. If he had had a little more luck, Bogdan Simion would probably have signed the granting of the status of public utility association for SERA, in 2015, when he was about to become Minister of Labor in the Ciolo? cabinet. However, he is just a poor director and a poor president of a state body, who barely takes home almost 43,000 lei a month,

Pontonul nu merge de multe ori la ap?

PATRICK ANDRÉ DE HILLERIN JOI, 21 OCTOMBRIE 2021, 01:02 - 82 AFISARI

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Pontonul nu merge de multe ori la ap?

Raluca Turcan ?i-a g?sit timp, în înc?rcatu-i program, ca pe 22 septembrie 2021 s? participa la t?ierea cu fast a panglicii inaugurale a unui ponton/centru itinerant pentru tratarea copiilor cu dizabilit??i din Delta Dun?rii. Pontonul cu pricina a fost amenajat de c?tre Funda?ia SERA, cu bani de la sponsorul Penny (Rewe Group), cam 120.000 de euro, ?i din fonduri europene. Pontonul a fost prins ?i în actele proiectului cu finan?are european? „Întotdeauna în familie – proiect pentru reducerea institu?ionaliz?rii, a riscului de separare ?i pentru asigurarea serviciilor de recuperare de proximitate copiilor din jude?ul Tulcea“, un proiect în valoare total? de 5.954.979,39 lei.

SERA este una dintre cele mai vechi asocia?ii/funda?ii care ac?ioneaz? în România post-revolu?ionar?, fondatorul s?u, François de Combret, fiind printre acei primi occidentali care au întrez?rit poten?ialul adop?iilor interna?ionale. De altfel, pân? la moratoriul care stopa adop?iile interna?ionale, SERA a fost unul dintre principalii exportatori de copii din România, lucru declarat ?i de c?tre fosta func?ionar? european? Rollie Post ?i sus?inut de c?tre ?eful ei la acea vreme, comisarul european Günter Verheugen.

Dup? ce s-a t?iat conducta adop?iilor interna?ionale, SERA s-a mai luptat o vreme cu sistemul pentru a i se redeschide robinetul cu bebelu?i, dup? care s-a reorientat ?i a început s? ob?in? bani frumo?i de la statul român, de la UE, de la UNICEF, Banca Mondial? ?i al?i finan?atori institu?ionali, precum ?i de la sponsori priva?i. Ace?ti bani s-au dus în proiecte ce au leg?tur? cu protec?ia copilului ?i asisten?a social?, centre de îngrijire a copiilor cu dizabilit??i ?i altele asemeni, precum ?i în multe sute de ore de seminarii ?i workshop-uri inutile, salarii zdravene ale angaja?ilor. De exemplu, în 2020, salariul net al directorului executiv al Funda?iei SERA România a fost de 200.200 de lei anual, la care s-a mai ad?ugat ni?te m?run?i? de 51.870 de lei pentru managementul ?i coordonarea unor proiecte pe fonduri europene. În total, 21.000 de lei lunar, net. O sum? frumoas?, pe care directorul executiv al SERA o dubleaz?, practic, cu o indemniza?ie de 21.840 de lei lunar, pe care o prime?te ca pre?edinte al Consiliului Economic ?i Social.

Dar cine este acest binef?c?tor al copiilor, acest bun samaritean care, în schimbul a doar 42.840 de lei lunar, are grij? ?i de copila?i, ?i de ditamai consiliul care analizeaz? proiectele de legi, de hot?râri ?i de ordonan?e?

Bogdan Simion se nume?te caritabilul ?i conduce SERA de foarte mul?i ani, învârtindu-se prin lumea bun? a oamenilor care nu lucreaz? la stat, dar au foarte bune leg?turi cu statul, organiza?iile lor fiind puternic finan?ate din bani publici. Folosindu-se de prietenia îndelungat? care leag? funda?ia SERA de Ludovic Orban ?i invers, Bogdan Simion a ob?inut, fix pe 30 decembrie 2019, statutul de asocia?ie de utilitate public?, prin semn?tura Violetei Alexandru. Dac? ar fi avut ceva mai mult noroc, probabil c? Bogdan Simion ar fi semnat singur acordarea statutului de asocia?ie de utilitate public? pentru SERA, în 2015, când era cât pe-aci s? ajung? ministru al Muncii în cabinetul Ciolo?. A?a, îns?, nu e decât un biet director ?i un biet pre?edinte de organism statal, care de-abia ce duce acas? aproape 43.000 de lei lunar, ca s? managerieze proiecte de succes, precum scufundarea pontonului în aplauzele momâilor chemate s? taie panglica.

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