Community Development Aid Eastern Europe: Romania and Moldova - charity organization Urgenta Foundation

<body> <h1>Urgenta Foundation: charity organization (<acronym title="Non Governmental Organization">NGO</acronym>), existing of volunteers, for developing countries in Eastern Europe like Romania and Moldova</h1> <p><a href="/english/sitemap.htm" title="All pages about volunteer community development in Eastern European developing countries">Sitemap:</a> all our resources and documents about volunteering, charity work, sustainable development projects and reports about the development aid projects in Romania and other Eastern European developing countries like <acronym title="Moldovia or Moldavia">Moldova</acronym></p> <h2>The help organization and its foreign aid</h2> <p>Since 1990, the Urgenta Foundation has been involved in charity and <a href="/english/home.htm" title="Read about charity foreign aid and development work">foreign aid</a> to Romania. In 2005 we've expanded our field of work to <acronym title="Also Moldovia or Moldavia">Moldova</acronym>. First we started as a group of enthusiastic volunteers for the Foundation International Medical Aid (FIMA). Later on, we decided to form our own non-profit help organization. Our main goal is to improve hospital's medical and technical facilities in Eastern European developing countries like Romania and Moldova. We do this by initiating and carrying out <a href="/english/current_projects.htm" title="Read about the current development projects in Romania">development projects</a>. The Urgenta Foundation is an non profit <acronym title="Non Governmental Organization">NGO</acronym>, which consists only of volunteers and volunteering.</p> <h2>Goal of the charity work</h2> <p>Our main goal is to lift hospitals' facility services to a higher standard. On the one hand, the Urgenta Foundation likes to play an advisory role for implementing and executing development projects, assessments etc. in Eastern Europe (Romania and <acronym title="Also Moldavia or Moldovia">Moldova</acronym>). On the other, we initiate and carry out charity projects ourselves as well. We carry out <a href="/english/romania/projects/2003-reorganization-technical-services.htm" title="Reorganization development project">reorganizations</a>, installation of medical equipment, assessments and we provide organizational aid to hospitals about what to change</p> <h2>Charity development projects in Romania</h2> <p>For some years now, we've have been in contact with the Clinical Hospital and <a href="/english/romania/projects/2005-charity-tour-childrens-hospital.htm" title="Charity tour for Children's Hospital Romania">Children's Hospital</a> in the city of Sibiu, <a href="/english/romania.htm" title="Some background information, facts and data about Romania">Romania</a>. We've run numerous <a href="/english/finished_projects.htm" title="All our charity work in the past in Romania">development projects</a> in hospitals and sometimes in orphanages, aids homes and schools. Most were successful, some were not. There's also a particularly ambitious <a href="/english/future_projects.htm" title="Development of a new University Hospital, Sibiu">plan</a> to build a new University Hospital in Sibiu. This will be a long-term project. All in all, a lot has changed in Romania the past few years. Mainly because of the future European Union membership, things are going fast lately.</p> <h2>Development aid project in Moldova</h2> <p>Late November 2004, we were contacted by a Dutch medical organization to see if we were interested in doing an <a href="/english/moldova/projects/2005-assessment-moldova.htm" title="Development project Moldova: assessment medical needs">assessment</a> of medical and technical priority needs at two hospitals in the city of Chisinau (also known as Kishinev), <acronym title="Also Moldavia or Moldovia">Moldova</acronym>. In May, the medical-technical <a href="/english/moldova/projects/2005-recommendation-report.htm" title="Medical Development Moldova: recommendation report">recommendation report</a> concerning development of the 4 hospitals was presented to the Local Healthcare Department Utrecht, the provence and municipal of Utrecht and the University of Utrecht.</p> <h2>Reports of placement abroad, volunteer work and medical internship abroad</h2> <p>On our site we offer an ever growing collection of reports about the <a href="/english/romania/reports/2005-charity-projects.htm" title="Reports about the volunteer work"> volunteer</a> work in Romania, a <a href="/english/romania/reports/2005-physiotherapy-placement-abroad.htm" title="Report about physiotherapy placement in Romania">placement</a> we arranged for 2 physiotherapy students and a medical <a href="/english/romania/reports/2003-internship-abroad.htm" title="Report about an internship abroad: Romania">internship</a> we've set up for a medical student. It seems that arranging placements and internships abroad is becoming one of the core tasks of the Urgenta Foundation! We consider this to be community development aid in a broader perspective.</p> <h2>Sponsors, fundraising and finances</h2> <p>The Urgenta Foundation depends on volunteers and volunteering only. No one gets paid, including board members. This means that we do our own fundraising via sponsors, on line donation and fundraising parties. All our development projects are funded by other charity organizations, sponsors, grant making fundraisers, governments and companies. Soon we will publish our annual financial report.</p> <h2>International development aid requires multiple languages</h2> <p>We are involved in international aid and relief so more languages are needed than just plain English. Therefore we offer our resources and documents in <a lang="nl" href="http://www.stichtingwerkgroepurgenta.nl/" title="Ontwikkelingshulp en ontwikkelingswerk in Roemenie en Moldavie">het Nederlands</a> and <a lang="ro" href="http://www.stichtingwerkgroepurgenta.nl/romana/" title="Organizatie non-profit, ajutor pentru dezvoltare Romania, Moldavia">Romana</a> as well</p> <h2>Core charity activities of the Urgenta Foundation:</h2> <ul> <li>medically based technical aid Romania and <acronym title="Moldovia or Moldavia">Moldova</acronym></li> <li>arranging internships and placements for (medical) students</li> <li>international sustainable development</li> <li>fundraising to finance development projects</li> <li>occasional small scale support of aids homes and orphanages</li> <li>assessments for other (charity) organizations or <abbr title="Non Profit Organization">NPO</abbr>'s</li> <li>volunteering for a good cause </li> </ul> </body>