Positive News about Romania
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Parents who have children in Cluj hospitals to receive free accommodation
Parents with financial difficulties will be able to stay with their children while they are treated in Cluj-Napoca hospitals. This is all due to an NGO who has managed to create free accommodation for families who need to travel to Cluj. The Life Education For All will also offer accommodation in return for a small…
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Beard Brothers charity group donates 30,000 euros worth of medical devices to Cluj Burn Center
A group of volunteers who call themselves the Beard Brothers have helped the Cluj Burn Center get two special devices. The group is formed mainly of men that have beards, but many other non-bearded volunteers often help with their charitable activities. At the moment the group is organizing 11 fundraising campaigns. One of them was…
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Romania wins the European Table Tennis Championships
The amazing Bernadette Szocs has won the European table tennis championships this year. Szocs had a tough competition, as 16 table tennis athletes from European countries have fought each other. In fact, Bernadette has only lost one set, managing to beat Tatian Bilenjo from Ukraine, with 4-0, Georgina Pota from Hungary with 4-0 and Matilda…
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Inspiring 16 year old student teaches poor children in Teleorman county in her spare time
Many positive things have been happening in Romania and it is quite visible that many young people start to understand the benefits of volunteering- helping other, learning a craft and earning experience. Recently, pressone.org presented the case of Eliza Neag, a 16-year-old girl who is teaching English to children in a village, in Teleorman county.…
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Homeless women to receive special gifts on March 8 thanks to project organised by two Romanian women
A lovely new project has been created with the purpose of helping poor women to celebrate March 8 in a better way. Irina Vasilescu and Alexandra Tanase have initiated the #PeStop project which aims to help women who live on the street. The two activists have done their research and they have walked on the streets…
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A successful campaign: Over 100,000 people donate towards the building of a children oncology hospital
When civil society gets together to achieve something great, most of times they achieve something greater. This was one of those times, as more than 100,000 people have donated over 4 million euros towards the building of an oncology and pediatric radiotherapy hospital. The Give Life association who created this campaign noted that in only…
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Portraits of Romanian peasants- how they looked like 100 years ago
If you are interested in knowing how Romanian peasants looked like at the beginning of the 20th century, this is the perfect event. The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania from Cluj-Napoca is celebrating the Grand Union Centennial and they are hosting an event called ” 100 portraits of Transylvanian peasants”. The portraits are part of an immense collection…
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Hundreds of people gather to watch Horia Colibasanu’s movie about his Everest ascent
Alpinists are frequently in the news, but who knew they are so popular? Horia Colibasanu has proved that climbing has become quite a phenomenon when he presented his movie about his ascent to Everest mountain in 2017. The movie was shown at the West University in Timisoara. The large room where it was presented became…
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A group of young people from Satu Mare help repair and restore orphan house
Several young people from Satu Mare have raised money to help improve the living conditions of 10 orphans. The Stefania family building where the orphans lived had several problems, as the roof was severely damaged and it was leaky. The association was considering moving the children somewhere else. This is when the young people from…
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Romanian movie “Lemonade” has been selected for the Berlin International Film Festival
Cristian Mungiu’s new movie “Lemonade” has been selected in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival this year. The movie was directed by Ioana Uricaru and tells the story of Mara, a 30-year-old woman who moved to the US with her 9-year-old son, Dragos. The character is married to Daniel, an American who works…
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