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Monday, October 23, 2023

From Olympic student to working in Germany to afford University

World Vision Romania, in collaboration with Babeș-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca County, launched "I want to college" a programme to support 100 underprivileged students to complete their university education.

The dream of education becomes reality

At the beginning of June, 100 Romanian students have seen a dream come true - they graduated high school. For the last four years, they have been part of...

Spreading God’s word through catechetic lessons

Over 3500 children across Valcea ADP participate in catechetic activities through the Youth Bible Curriculum that increases their spiritual education and...

Catechetic lessons give Mariana trust for the future

Children’s lives in Rasnic village, Cernatesti commune, seem to follow an established routine. They go to school in the morning, they help their parents...

Integrating roma children in Camarasu village

The project for integrating Roma children, initiated in Camarasu commune, in Romania’s Cluj County, addresses the needs of primary and secondary school...

Being a Woman, a single mother and a Professional in European Romania

I don’t know how it was for my mother to be a career woman, raise two children and be a good wife. She had been the director of an orphanage, then the...

Stranded community welcomes support but crisis not over...

Anca Bejenaru, Communications Manager with World Vision Romania, shares images of a remote village in the mountains of Buzau County in Romania where some...

World Vision helps in snow-struck county and continues to monitor as floods threaten

ROMANIA- Buzau County, in southeast Romania, is one of two counties that has been worst hit by the heavy snowfall blanketing much of Eastern Europe. Many...

Eyewitness: Stranded for three weeks, with no power, food or water...

ROMANIA- Anca Bejenaru, Communications Manager with World Vision Romania recounts her visit to a remote village in the mountains of Buzau County in Romania...

Winter emergency- struggling families receive aid

Severe cold, snowfall and blizzards are causing widespread suffering and fatalities across Romania and impoverished families have to choose between buying...

"Swimming in the snow"

In Sarulesti village, Buzau County, people are stuck in snows banks as high as 1.5 metres. Their homes, scattered around the valley, are isolated from the...

”We are not alone” – emergency aid helps distraught families

ROMANIA- Harsh weather conditions over recent weeks, with temperatures plummeting to -25 degrees are taking their toll on many families in Dolj County. A...

World Vision responds to worst winter "in six decades"

ROMANIA- Severe cold, snowfall and blizzards continue to cause widespread suffering and fatalities due to hypothermia with the latest seven victims dying...

Severe cold forces families to choose between food and wood for heating...

ROMANIA- “If I had to choose between wood and food, we would choose wood; we would die without heating”, says Tiberiu, a father of five children in...

Snow and freezing weather trap thousands across Eastern Europe

EASTERN EUROPE- Harsh winter conditions continue to choke many parts of Eastern Europe. In Romania and across the Balkans, many villages remain closed off...

Inside a Roma community...

Roma children are four times more likely to die before their 5th birthday than the average Romanian child who is still much more at risk than his peers in...

Preventing child abandonment in Romania

Child abandonment in maternity units and pediatric hospitals is a continuing problem in Romania. Lack of education and preventative services such as...

Six months of flood relief in Romania

A little over six months ago the River Danube reached its highest levels in just over 100 years with devastating results. Wiping out infrastructure and...

New shoes for school: A sign of hope for a Roma child

Children from the poorest families on the margins of Gherla, northwest Romania, do not have decent clothes nor a pair of shoes to attend school. Ashamed to...

Education for One-in-Four

Fifty years of Communism left Romania's rural communities shattered, steeped in a culture of mistrust and suspicion. Hope was reborn after the revolution...

Bitter Harvest

The potential of Romania's agricultural sector is going unrealized, a situation threatening to deny millions of small farmers the prosperity others are...

Adriana, 10 says “I come to church to be closer to God”

ROMANIA- Beyond the dusty and unpaved village roads shaded by plum trees, near houses with large yards and broken fences where poultry dig through the mud...

Two pairs of shoes for my child is really something!

Florin is one of 30 children and teenagers with disabilities who benefits from the special services offered by the Medgidia Multifunctional Center opened...

Romanian Peace Institute wins World Vision International Peace Prize

The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) is the winner of this year’s World Vision International Peace Prize announced on...

Romanians rally to help children in drought-stricken East Africa

As food shortages and malnutrition claim young lives across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania, and famine is declared in parts of conflict-weary Somalia...