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Building 10 Habitat homes in just 1 week
Between June 23rd and 28th, 2008, Habitat for Humanity Cluj will launch the most ambitious building project to date in Cluj: Building 10 Habitat homes in just 1 week. This exceptional event is made possible by the generous sponsorship of Fundatiei Vodafone România, or the Vodafone Foundation Romania, which has not only funded the project but has also organized the 300 Vodafone employees who will build the homes.
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Petrom is helping more than 60 families to have a new home, in a Habitat for Humanity project
Bucharest, March, 24 2008 – Through the project “Building for the Future” Petrom and Habitat for Humanity are helping 66 families in Comăneşti, Asău, Dofteana, Dărmăneşti and Moineşti. Petrom is offering the financial support needed to build six new houses and to repair other 60 houses. Petrom’s employees are working as volunteers at the houses’ repair and construction.
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DuPont and Habitat for Humanity build together for better life
Craiova, Romania, October 27, 2006. – DuPont Romania together with Habitat for Humanity inaugurates new houses for families in need at the dedication ceremony in Craiova. DuPont’s contribution of USD 10,000 and its donation of DuPont™ Tyvek® allowed to build one home and to cover roofs of ten Habitat for Humanity houses. Earlier this year, DuPont employees volunteered for the construction of the new home.
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Mission accomplished for Aviva team: 3 HOUSES IN 5 DAYS!
Between the 2nd and the 6th of October AVIVA (one of the leading providers of life and pensions products to Europe) and Habitat for Humanity worked together in a large project in Cluj, they built 3 houses in just 5 days. Aviva manage to outrun all the tasks and scheduled deadlines. This was an opportunity to finish other houses that have already been built and start building up a new one, the
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Bermudian volunteers build homes in Romania
A local group of hardworking volunteers built homes for the less fortunate in Eastern Europe and later saw their work documented by international television, newspaper and radio stations. A diverse group of 50 Bermudians, ranging in age from 12 to 81, traveled to Romania as part of Habitat for Humanity International and dedicated two weeks to building homes for families in need. “It went fantastically well and from just a slab of concrete foundation we built four houses in two weeks,” volunteer Lynne Winfield said. “We apparently were the second largest HFHI group ever to do something like this worldwide and consequently interviewed by television crews, radio crews, photographers and journalists and made national papers and radio. Not only that, Habitat filmed a mini-documentary about our visit”. (08/12/06 )
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MoneyGram Transfers Money for Families in Urgent Need of Housing
Beius, June 27th, 2006 - MoneyGram sponsored Habitat in Romania as part of its five-year, $1-million commitment to build affordable homes around the globe. During its 3 years of partnership with Habitat for Humanity Romania, MoneyGram has donated more than 65,000 USD, money used by the association Habitat at building 5 decent houses, 4 in Radauti, and 1 in Pitesti. The dedication ceremony of the house of the Trifan family in Radauti will take place on 6th of July 2006.
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“Building Romania Together” early in the morning
The Association Habitat for Humanity Romania and AmCham – American Chamber of Commerce in
Romania, organize on Wednesday, 10th of May 2006, at 08:00
a.m., at IRIDIUM ballroom of HOWARD JOHNSON hotel in Bucharest, a working breakfast entitled
“BUILDING ROMANIA TOGETHER!” With this event, the organizers want to point out the major importance decent living has for all Romanians in the context of Romania’s joining to EU.
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Financing public needs
Municipalities in Romania had a slow start in learning how to obtain financing to support their projects. The money collected from taxes and the different grants received from international institutions was far from sufficient. Since 1999, when the legal framework for obtaining municipal loans was set up, commercial banks and international financial institutions have become the major players in financing municipalities with long-term loans.
There is a discrepancy between municipalities’ capacity to generate projects and absorb funds and their need for financing, because the smaller they are, the fewer resources they have to generate projects. Moreover, municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants have access to neither ISPA funds, which are addressed to larger municipalities, nor to SAPARD funds, as they are considered villages.
The worst situation is in rural areas, where 8,400 villages are lacking water and sewage systems. Laszlo Borbely, minister of state for economic affairs, says the authorities are now planning to take out a EUR 340 million loan from the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) within the next three years, to finance water systems in these areas.
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Winter has come: the rehabilitation of the houses affected by the floods continues!
Right after the disaster made by the Trotus River in the poor neighbourhoods of Comanesti, Habitat for Humanity initiated an intervention plan designed to help the affected families rebuild their homes. During 1st of October 2005 – 31st of January 2006, 106 families from the poor areas of the town will be helped. So far, 28 families enjoy already the warmth of their rebuilt home.
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Almost 100 Apartments Built In Arad In A Public-Private Partnership
Two private companies together with the Arad City Hall will build six apartment buildings to be sold to young families. Gheorghe Falca, Arad mayor, says that the buildings will have a total of 96 apartments and will be built in the next 18 months. Following a public bid with four construction companies, Tehnodomus and Amarad Do were selected winners. The two companies will buy the land from the City Hall for EUR 1 per sqm. The six blocks will be built on a terrain close to the biggest neighborhood in the city, where the city wants to build another 18 blocks within the next five years. According to the public-private partnership, the building costs will be of less than EUR 500 per sqm. The maximum price for a two-room apartment will be of EUR 30.000.
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Women’s World Summit Foundation honors Romanian Geta Heredea, an extraordinary woman
BUDAPEST, HFH regional headquarters (Oct. 13) – An extraordinary woman in Romania, Geta Heredea, has been honored by the prestigious international Women’s World Summit Foundation.
The “Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life” is awarded on the United Nations’ recognized “World Rural Women’s Day” on Oct. 15, and honors selected women from around the globe who make their rural communities a better place. Geta Heredea has worked with the international housing charity Habitat for Humanity not only to better the lives of her own family, but also those in her village of Mizies, Romania.
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29th of August 2005
BENEFIT CONCERT IN SOLIDARITY WITH ROMANIA
Crissaro Communications, with the support of the Romanian Association of Canada, the Federation of Romanian Associations, The Multicultural Integration Forum of Quebec, The Romanian Cultural Association, the Avram Iancu Society of Montreal, the Embassy of Romania in Ottawa, the Romanian radio shows Marca-RO (105,1 FM), “Antena va apartine” (1280 AM) from Montreal, Ro-Magazine (89,1 FM) from Ottawa, and
“Pagini Romanesti”, “Actualitatea Canadiana”, “Tribuna Noastra”, romanian community newspapers from Montreal and “Capitala” from Ottawa, presented “Bridge of Stone”, a benefit concert in solidarity with Romania, recently devastated by catastrophic floods. |
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29th of August 2005
€1 million-worth construction works for 500 flooded homes
The non-profit association Habitat for Humanity Romania started a reconstruction program for 500 houses affected by the July floods. The project, estimated at over 1 million €, takes place in two very affected areas by floods where Habitat for Humanity has affiliates: Comanesti, county of Bacau, and Golesti, county of Arges. The works will be finished in March 2006. |
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5th of August 2005
Ovidiu Rom Association partners with Habitat for Humanity Romania, City Hall of Comanesti
and Prefecture of Bacau to repair houses severely destroyed by July floods in Comanesti, Bacau county... |
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Boston Academics Hit the Road to Help Fight Poverty Housing in Romania
BEIUS, HFH Romania National Office (16th of July) – Professor Betty Blythe and a group of her Boston College graduate students are joining Habitat for Humanity’s fight against poverty housing in Romania... |
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The work of the Lafarge volunteers on Habitat building site provides
Eight families from Radauti with a new home... |
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