Links

The links on this and the following two pages are to websites dedicated mainly to Romania

http://www.msr.org.uk/
Medical Support in Romania (MSR) exists for the relief of sickness in Eastern & Central Europe, especially Romania. MSR works by promoting high standards of health care and good clinical practice. Between 1990 and 2004, 174 medical personnel, mostly from the UK, have made 284 visits to its partner hospital in Zalau, Romania, which is twinned with Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Cambridgeshire.

The Romanian Cultural Centre
in London is an independent association,
promoting Romanian cultural programs and acting as the focus for the
Romanian community in Britain. It bridges a gap in the way Romania and Romanians are perceived in Britain. Manager Ramona Mitrica says, ‘2006 is a year in which the RCC plans to attract an even greater British audience towards making Romania and Romanian culture better known; and we'll endeavour to show how widely and how significantly Romanians have contributed to the cultural life of Europe and the rest of the world.’ Linked to The Ratiu Foundation which Ion and Elisabeth Raţiu established in London in 1979.The main objective of the Foundation is to promote and support projects which further education and research in the culture and history of Romania.

Pro Patrimonio
An international charity devoted to saving some of Romania’s
most beautiful buildings for posterity.

Mihai Eminescu Trust
A joint Romanian-British venture established in the 1980s ‘to give Romania’s dissidents a lifeline to civilisation’. Having alerted the West to Ceauşescu’s plan to bulldoze 13,000 villages, the trust now concentrates on conservation projects in Transylvania and Maramureş, helping to sustain a way of life that has continued more or less unbroken since the Middle Ages.

Save Roşia Montana
A vitally important campaign to protect a unique part of our European heritage from a massive quarry project. Click above for the latest news.

Kathleen McLaughlin’s Romania
An American photographer who spent a year teaching in Cluj. She formed a lasting attachment to Maramureş and her beautiful colour and black and white pictures are works of art.

Travel Romania
Informative, up-to-date site created by a young student in Bucharest; it’s got a great breadth of vision, containing great photographs, sensible advice about how to get around, plus book reviews and a wonderful range of Romanian curiosities.

Treeflights.com
An imaginative way to help the natural world when you fly. Not ideal - we should find a way of getting around that doesn’t discharge vast quantities of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere - but we’ve got to start somewhere.

Association of Ecotourism in Romania
A group of like-minded tour operators founded Asociatia de Ecoturism din Romania a couple of years ago to promote sustainable, sensitive travel in areas where wildlife and traditions are particularly vulnerable.

Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Bucharest
The former director, Horea Bernea, turned this museum into one of Bucharest’s most go-ahead institutions. Bernea was a painter as well as an ethnographer and he put his individual stamp on the displays. They are playful and informative and the antithesis to the dry, didactic showcases preferred by the communist authorities.

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