There are gestures that make no noise but change everything. That’s how this Easter story began —quietly, in a simple workshop, with young hands and honest ideas.
At the Dimitrie Gusti Technological High School in Bucharest, during the Green Week, the Dochia in Style workshop came to life. A group of students started creating: hand-painted bottles, soulful T-shirts, meaningful artworks. Beyond colors and shapes, each piece carried an intention — to reach someone in a place where joy doesn’t come easily.
From that spirit, the “An Easter for Them” project was born — a collaboration between Balkazaar and the Dimitrie Gusti Technological High School. The students’ creations became part of an online fair with a real purpose. Those who purchased them weren’t just buying handmade gifts — they were sending a message of warmth, hope, and a quiet form of solidarity.
The funds raised were used to buy clothes, sweets, toys, books and essentials for the children at the Ferentari Day Center (DGASPC Sector 5). More than material things, the project brought something intangible: the feeling of being remembered. When we visited the center, the children greeted us with wide eyes and open hearts. Sometimes, the strongest “thank you” is a smile with no words.
Easter is more than red eggs, sweet bread, and spring cleaning. In Romanian tradition, Easter has always been a time of renewal and community — of giving, sharing, and caring for one another. In villages across the country, it was once common to leave a basket at the neighbor’s gate, filled with food or small treats for those in need. No one was left behind. It wasn’t charity. It was belonging.
Today, the world looks different. But the need for connection remains. And that’s why this gesture —from a group of teenagers who chose to give when they didn’t have to — carries so much meaning. Through creativity and compassion, they carried forward something old and sacred into something new and real.
“An Easter for Them” was more than a project. It was a quiet act of humanity. It was about children who don’t have much, but who receive everything with gratitude. And about other young people, who chose to give — not for praise, but simply because they could.
Sometimes, empathy is born through color. And it stays.
