The 4th edition of the World of difference program has ended, after six months since our volunteers started their hopeful and ambitious journey. There were six months during which, wherepractical solutions weren’t found, doors were opened, dreams were born, voices were heard.
Irina Margareta Nistor is a film critic, radio and television show producer, also having a prolific activity as a journalist and translator. However, few people know that Irina Margareta Nistor is also actively involved in volunteering activities in which she has long taken part out of her own will, and more recently as president of the Vodafone Romania Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Normally, she doesn’t like talking about the good deeds she does, but we managed to convince her to give us a few details about how she joined the Vodafone Romania Foundation’s team and about her activity within the organization.
We are happy to announce two important medical projects that will contribute to the better health of children and newborns in Cluj. We are speaking about Peditel, the first telephonic service for emergency pediatric advice, and Otoscreen, a project through which four maternities will be endowed with high-end equipment to be used for hearing tests for newborns.
Vodafone Romania Foundation helped in launching the T.A.L.E project, which aims to improve the independent living abilities of the 55 autistic children.
However bleak it may seem, for most of us,the scenario of having to live without one of our basic senses, our sight, not only that it’s possible, but it can also be pleasant; life can be full of color, the sun can shine from within the soul and light can lie in the heart. Dan Brad and the blind children from the Catharsis Braşov Association have proven that it’s indeed possible, as well as Cătălin Petrescu and the children from Conil Association who, in spite of their severe sight impairments, learn and succeed in playing musical instruments.
This year, 32 young artists will receive grants of up to 2,000 euros within the Young Talents program; the program is developed by the Principesa MargaretaFoundation, which is sponsored by the Vodafone Foundation through the Fund for Good Deeds, a NGO financing program.
Vlad (32 years old), IT analyst for a multinational bank, has been a blood donor ever since 2007. At that time, he says, the Bucharest Blood Transfusion Centre looked awful, and the entire donation process, from verification and blood-work, to the donation itself, could have taken up to four hours. “Now it doesn’t take more than an hour”, Vlad says.
“2013 was a full year, because we had many projects. First of all, we finalized and inaugurated the New Intensive Care Unit for Newborns within the Marie Curie hospital, project in which the Vodafone Romania Foundation has invested 1,4 million euros, its biggest contribution so far, since its founding”, says Angela Galeţa the director of the Vodafone Romania Foundation
Partner: The Motivation Foundation Romania Beneficiaries: people with mobility and physical impairments Location: isolated localities from the counties of Alba, Bacău, Constanța, Neamț and Tulcea