I’m continuing my section of guest bloggers with Felicia Alexandru, our Senior Political Officer. I invited Felicia to talk about a recent project she worked on, organising a seminar on asset recovery, set up in partnership with the Romanian Ministry of Justice and also the National Anticorruption Directorate. Let’s find out more! Romania and the UK already enjoy a strong relationship on anti-corruption and justice reform. This has evolved over … Read more »Make sure that crime does not pay: UK and Romania’s developing partnership on asset recovery
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World Champion now also at the veladrome!
Eduárd Novák (36 yrs old) , cyclist from the Tusnad Cycling Team, Miercuri Ciuc, Romania has become world champion for the third time, after he took gold in the 4 km pursuit race at the veladrome, at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles. Eduárd succeeded in defeating the Czech rider Jiri Jezek, the world record holder in the final, by 3 seconds. Eduárd completed a perfect race and … Read more »World Champion now also at the veladrome!
Great Britons in Romania: Shajjad and Katie Rizvi and The Little People
Second in our series of blogs about Great Britons in Romania are Shajjad and Katie Rizvi, founders of The Little People – a charity dedicated to providing psycho-social and educational services to children suffering from cancer. Shajjad came to Romania in early 1990 to deliver a shipment of humanitarian aid. He planned to stay for two weeks but he fell in love with the country and ended up staying in … Read more »Great Britons in Romania: Shajjad and Katie Rizvi and The Little People
The StartEvo Project or “You make your own luck”
Guest blog: I am Iulian Craciun and I am a disabled person. So what? I learned that in order to be successful in life you need to build your own luck. Not to wait from others. I’ve learned that you are the only person that can really make a difference in shaping your destiny. “You make your own luck”. This is a saying that 79% of Romanians disagree with, according … Read more »The StartEvo Project or “You make your own luck”
Great Britons in Romania: David Savage, Ben Wells and the Nightingales Children’s Project
There are many Brits doing great things in Romania, like David Savage and Ben Wells from the Nightingales Children’s Project, a charity based in Cernavoda, 200kms from Bucharest. David came to Romania in 1993 to work in a local orphanage, and soon realised that there was a large number of children living in the orphanage without the care, stimulation, education or love that all children need. So he set up … Read more »Great Britons in Romania: David Savage, Ben Wells and the Nightingales Children’s Project
A British investment in humanness
British philanthropist Graham Perolls and his superb team at Casa Sperantei have been supporting Romanian charity sector for almost two decades now. As British Ambassador Martin Harris commented recently, Casa Sperantei is a British strategic investment in humanness. Graham is sharing with us details of his latest project aimed at helping terminally-ill patients in Bucharest and its surroundings. After two years of fundraising, negotiating, designing and planning, we finally have … Read more »A British investment in humanness
