PaCoRa Workshop

The PaCoRa women’s workshop (for mosaics and sewing) originated as a Second Chance project, and has developed into a sustainable small business run by Berceni citizens.

In 2004, Second Chance started with a training program to teach a small number of Berceni’s unemployed women skills such as mosaic making and sewing. Today, five women work part time in the business, which is run by Cosmina Pandele, a native of the town of Berceni. The unique, handmade, products made by these women are a wide array of mosaics as well as children’s costumes. Through individual orders, private home sales and contracts with private companies, PaCoRa functions as an independent business, providing salaries for its employees.

The second floor of the Second Chance Community Center will serve as PaCoRa’s new and larger workshop. Plans are already being made to both improve the skills of the current employees by organizing sewing classes by a professional seamstress and to attract new employees.

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If you are interested in PaCoRa’s products, you can:

  • have a custom-made product and/or you can have it personalized

  • order a series of the same or similar objects, e.g. as business gifts for your company’s customers

  • order a series to sell at your shop or even your home
Purchase items from the following retail or web-based stores:

  • Kids costumes can be purchased online at:
         Mees Children's Wear (Netherlands)
         MijnKind.nl (Netherlands)

  • View our products online: www.123hjemmeside.dk/scworkshop

  • Products available at several stores in Bucharest, Romania
          Diades:  str. Selari 9-11, Bucuresti, tel 0724531342  (Mosaics available here)
         Boribon:  Viitorului nr 21, Bucuresti, tel 021 2111063 (Costumes available here)

In the past, products have been sold at events organized by the American International School of Bucharest, the American Embassy in Bucharest, the International British School of Bucharest, the International Women’s Association in Bucharest, International Nursery School Romania, Association Francophone Bucharest, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest, Boccaccio Restaurant, Amsterdam Café, Hilton Hotel,…

Please let us know if you organize an event in which we can participate!

For all information and orders, please contact

Cosmina Pandele (+40)(0) 726173643 (Romanian, French and English speaking)