Fundatia ADEPT
is an Anglo-Romanian NGO, which carries out a range of actions in the fields
of nature conservation, agri-environment, education and marketing, to promote the survival of the High Nature Value farmed landscapes of Transylvania and of the small-scale farming communities that live within them.
Medical Support in Romania
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.
Volunteers for Mental Health
is a small charity based in the UK. VfMH sends volunteers to work in the psychiatric section of Tarnaveni Hospital (see right) in Transylvania, Romania, to provide a programme of therapeutic activities for long-term patients.
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 living in Sarbi, Maramureş, and teaching in Cluj. She formed a lasting attachment to the Maramureş and her beautiful colour and black and white pictures are telling statements about how people’s lives have are changing after the Revolution. In July 2011 some of
them will be on show in China, where Kathleen will begin another photo
project about rural life.
Travel Romania
Informative, up-to-date site created by a student in Bucharest; it’s got a great breadth of vision, contains great and often quirky photographs, and offers sensible advice about how to get around, plus book reviews and a wonderful range of Romanian curiosities.
Romania Central
Dedicated to helping visitors interested in tourism and business find their way around; it’s less glaringly commercial than many and has good links
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. One of its founder members, Colin Shaw, is a passionate and reliable authority on this subject. He really knows his stuff.
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 mark on the displays which bring Romania’s rural heritage refreshingly to life. The museum organises exhibitions, lectures and film shows and a mordant little room in a basement takes you back to the Communist years.
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