We fund Romanian partner
charities to run various long-term community based relief projects.
Plus we also run our own charity projects
Here's what we've been doing recently
Home Care of the Elderly
We continue to care for approx 400 elderly
people in their own homes.
As a result of the growing reputation of the
team’s kindness and caring, we are being referred more
and more people with terminal illness for palliative care.
This is the only programme in the NE of Romania
offering home care and nursing services to unwell, old people.
An evaluation by the Romanian authorities said
the programme was … “unique
in Romania in the high standards of care and dedication to the old
people who are cared for”.
A further 200 to 300 people attend our Day
Centre.
This was renamed The Dr Stefan Ciobanu Day
Centre in honour of our friend and colleague, Stefan
Ciobanu, who was killed in a car accident. Stefan inspired and
led the project. It will remain a great legacy for a good man who
died so tragically young
Arts Therapy for the Disabled for children
and adults with special needs
Our Impart projectcontinbues
to train carers in various regionsof
Romania.
They also deliver our programme of therapeutic arts
to hundreds ofseverely disabled children
and adults in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals.
We publish 4 “Impreuna” magazines
a year and distributed them to 2,100 key individuals, free of charge.
Our interactive
community arts website is being redesigned and relaunched.
This will be an invaluable resource for the dedicated, but all too
often badly isolated, workers in this field.
Mobile Health Care and Mobile Pharmacy
We continue this long running project by delivering
vital health care and medicines to thousands of people
in remote villages in NE Romania.
This has been called the poorest area in
Europe.
The project also donates children’s clothes,
basic food supplies, chickens, goats to hundreds of the poorest
families.
We have recently expanded our work in this area
with a major grant to set up a team of Mobile Community
Workers to help these families, who are often badly isolated
in hard-to-reach villages in the countryside.
Funding
Over the past 20 years we have
spent millions of pounds on our
charity work in Romania, as well as many gifts-in-kind
We also paid for various direct charity expenses
in the UK such as sponsoring the costs of expert volunteers.
We fund various Romanian charities
and groups directly who are delivering help to those most in need
through various programmes.
In particular
Our partner charity Fundatia
de Sprijin Comunitar - The Community Support Foundation
When we helped our Romanian employees set up their
own autonomous charity we would have been very surprised - and thrilled
- to see how much they have achieved. Here's how they summarised
it:
We helped an average of 25,000 people a year for the past 10
years
We have created jobs for 200 people, of which 10 have been working
with us for over 10 years
We were granted the rare Public Utility Title
by the Government
We have won many national awards
In Bucharest we continue to support the Budimex,
a major Children’s Hospital.
With our sincere thanks to all our friends
who help make this possible.
The
Relief Fund Team
Checkout our new campaign
magazine for all those working with the arts with
special needs children and adults in Romania
The Relief Fund was the first UK charity to be awarded
a Seal of Approval by the Accrediting Bureau of Fundraising
Organisations.
