The Ruhama Foundation has nurtured structured projects of community development beginning with the year 2002, among very poor communities, primarily Roma communities in Bihor County. If at that time the organization's course of action was targeted towards issues of health, public involvement, housing and infrastructure, it gradually crystallized into an integrated approach to the community, that addressed other fields interweaved in-between the fabric of poverty: education and employment. Today’s course of action regarding disadvantaged communities put together by the organization is a very clear and systematic one, placing Education at the core of every other programme of community development. The years of work within these communities have substantiated the importance of education over all other aspects of life. Starting with 2006, Education has become the prime interest in our programmes of local development, and we have focused on increasing the level of school attendance in children that come from disadvantaged communities and also on reducing the alarming rate of school drop out among Roma children.

Ruhama Foundation set out to test the alternative educational models aimed at Roma children, closely tied in with the programmes of community development launched in dozens of communities around the county. Our organization is the only one at the national level that managed to mobilize the local actors and to organize 23 summer kindergartens for Roma and non-Roma children that have not attended public kindergarten, improving the methodology of the summer kindergartens of 2006. More than 500 children graduated the summer kindergartens in August 2007, and the ones enrolled in the first grade beginning September 2007 managed to fit in successfully with classmates that benefited from a preschool education of a minimum of one year in public kindergartens. The success obtained has validated the foundation's methodology, determining the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth to recommend in 2008 this methodology on a nationwide scale to all educational actors planning to organize summer kindergartens for Roma children.

Apart from preschool education, the foundation has developed programmes aimed at Roma children enrolled in the primary and secondary learning cycles, Roma high school and University students, parents of Roma children and tutors that teach classes of Roma children. All the educational programmes geared towards these target groups are integrated into a unitary approach that generates sustainable long term results and is aimed at assisting the groups of Roma children along their school carriers until their integration into the work force, with a level of competence and ability well over that of their parents.