ICC Romania ICC Romania District Coordinator: Monty Rice PP, RC Cambria mgr@amcf.com 805-927-2257 Committee Steve Berg PP, RC Los Olivos Steve.Berg@lospadresbank.com 805 688 5565 Diane Galvin PP, RC Moorpark bear72993@roadrunner.com 805 374 8133 Dana Moldovan PP, RC Newbury Park danamol@gmail.com 805 320 3264 Romania General Information Romania is located in Eastern Europe. Romanian's democracy is pretty new and fragile; it started in 1989 after the fall of Communism which left behind a broken economy and broken values, and as consequence lots of people in need for help. Our help in Romania is focused on underprivileged children, hospitals, wheelchairs, kids affected by hemophilia and many more... Also we organize Rotary trips to Romania giving the Rotarians from here the opportunity to go and visit the country, meet with local Rotarians, evaluate and select projects to work on and see the projects results. Histrory Log : file ICC Romania.pdf Mia s Children ( link to Pictures and text about org and projects on page 4) Casa Mea www.casamea.org 1
Projects for 2009 10 DSG for Mia s Children food, school supplies, furniture, scholarships DSG for Casa Mea school supplies, educational materials Wheelchairs Container for hospitals Raise funds for building a permanent house for Mia s Children Association Group Study Exchange D5240 & D2241 (Romania) 2003 04 (link to http://gseromania.contentlogic.ro/ Partner Clubs in D5240 Newbury Park Moorpark Los Olivos Camarillo Breakfast Cambria Santa Paula Pismo Beach Carpentaria Santa Barbara Simi Sunrise San Luis Obispo de Toloso Montecito Cambria Sunrise Centennial Thousand Oaks Conejo Valley Atascadero Partner Clubs in D5260 Warner Center Woodland Hills Sherman Oaks Partner Clubs in D2241 (Romania) Braila Bucuresti Bucuresti Atheneum Mangalia Constanta Sibiu Bucuresti Levant Lugoj Buzias Timisoara Alba Iulia Resita Iasi Cluj (Mia s Children link) Mia s Children Association was born of a dream, to help the children of Romania build better lives away from poverty, abusive homes, prostitution, abandonment and drugs. Founded in 1998 by Mia Scarlat, Mia s Children provides daily tutoring, counseling, art, singing, writing, drama and Scripture reading. The children are taught respect of themselves and each other. They are taught love. For many of the children, their stay with Mia is the first time they have been exposed to music, culture, beauty and self expression through art. Painting is a favorite pastime and much of the children s art has been exhibited. 2
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Rotary Romania Activity March 2002 / June 2009 March 2002 - The Newbury Park Rotary Club started to work on Romanian projects with March 2002. The first major project was the renovation of the Mia s Children apartment where Mia and Costel work with underprivileged children, do homework with them, teach them moral values and provide them one warm meal a day. On this project the Newbury Park Rotary Club worked with The Bucharest Rotary Club. Total: $7,000 Before After. May 2002 - The Newbury Park Rotary Club participated to a matching grant with the Exmouth Rotary Club in England and the Curtea Veche Rotary Club in Bucharest for bringing medical beds to the University Hospital in Bucharest. Total: $1,000. September 2002-4 Rotarians from the Newbury Park Rotary Club (Ron Block, Eddie Cheung and his wife Nancy, Dana & Mike Moldovan) visited Romania as part of a Discovery Grant. They visited hospitals, schools, and orphanages in Bucharest, Domnesti, and Brasov. January 2003 Rotary district 5240 signed the Inter Country Committee Agreement with the Romanian district 2241, the first ICC signed by a district in the USA. This historical event took place at the Anaheim Convention Center during the DGE training. May 2003 - A Rotarian from Bucharest Club, Laurentiu Tincu visited the Newbury Park Rotary Club. 1
June 2003 The Newbury Park Rotary Club in collaboration with a nonprofit organization from New York, CSAI, and the Rotary Club of Brasov sent medical equipment to the Children s Hospital in Brasov. Total: $1,000. September 2003 At the Newbury Park Rotary Club fund raiser, Oktoberfest we had a booth selling drawings and other hand made artifacts that were made by the children in the Mia s Children organization. All the proceeds were donated to the Mia s Children organization. Total: $950 2
October 2003 A GSE team from Romania sponsored by our District visited California for three weeks and made a presentation at the district conference. October 2003 At the district conference we had a booth presenting all the projects we were doing with Romania and promoting the ICC. November 2003 Claudia, one of the girls from the Mia's Children Association was sponsored by the Newbury Park Rotary Club to come and spend 4 weeks in California with Rotarians and their families. Total: $2,500 December 2003 The Newbury Park Rotary Club sponsored a neurosurgeon, Dr. Irina Ogrezeanu, from the Bagdasar Hospital in Bucharest to visit the Neurosurgery Department at UCLA. Total: $2,500 Claudia & Mary-Catherine December 2003 The Rotary Club of Moorpark donated to CHAD (a home orphanage hosting 19 children) whole propane on demand heating system along with 5 radiators. Total: $3,000 January 2004 After a devastating fire at CHAD that destroyed about 50% of the building, an emergency fire relief fund was setup to help. The following Rotary Clubs participated: Newbury Park, Moorpark, Los Olivos, Santa Barbara, and Montecito. Total: $5,000 February 2004 Newbury Park RC sent to Mia's Children the money that we raised from selling holyday cards featuring drawings done by the children. The cards were printed by the Rotary Club of Bucharest. Total: $3,000 3
April 2004 10 Rotarians from our district and 4 from District 6290 visited Romania to strengthen the ties and visit existing and potentially new projects. The following clubs throughout Romania were visited: Bucharest Club, Athenaeum Club and Continental Club from Bucharest, Ploiesti Sud Club, Brasov Club, Braila Club, Timisoara Club and Lugoj Club. May 2004 Laurentiu Tincu from the Bucharest Rotary Club visited the Newbury Park Rotary Club. June 2004 The GSE team from USA left for Romania for 3 weeks. Upon their return they toured our District doing presentations regarding their visit in Romania. September 2004 Received a generous donation of 9,000 books from Follett Distributor in Chicago for the Public Library in Braila. Newbury Park Club paid for transportation through District Simplified Grant. Braila RC paid for transportation inside Romania and for the library shelves. Total from RC Newbury Park: $5,000 4
December 2004 3 Rotarians from our Club (Ron Block, Dana & Mike Moldovan), and Ron Windemuller from District 6290 and representatives from US Embassy in Bucharest participated in Braila at the official opening of the American Cultural Center. The event was broadcasted on local TV and articles were published in local newspapers. February 2005 the following Clubs from our District: Newbury Park, Moorpark, Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, Simi Sunrise, Carpentaria and individual Rotarians from our Club donated funds to the RC Braila Centennial project Social Scholarships for junior high school and high school students. The event was broadcasted on local TV and newspapers. Total: $9,000 March 2005 - DGE of the District of Romania Ivan Bloch and his wife Silvia visited our District. They participated at 10 Rotary Clubs meetings. An article written by Rotarian Ileana Costea of Newbury Park was published in the Romanian Newspaper that gets published in California and is distributed in the entire World in the Romanian communities. April 2005 The Newbury Park Rotary Club participated with Children STAR foundation in shipping a container with medical equipment, medial supplies, cloths, toys to the County hospital in Tirnaveni. Total: $5,000 5
June 2005 Chicago International Rotary Convention Renewal of the ICC Agreement between D5240 (USA) and D2241 Romania. June 2005 Members of Los Olivos & Solvang RC visited Romania. Met with Rotarians from the following Romanian Clubs: Oradea, Cluj, Tg. Mures, Sighisoara, Sibiu, and Bucharest. Visited 3H Rotary project in Cluj: Peasants feed the children. Visited orphanage outside of Brasov: Casa mea. Donated $3,000 to the CHAD orphanage outside of Bucharest, worked on a hands-on project for the garden irrigation system and purchased new clothes and shoose for all the children. Total: $5,000 6
June 2005 - Rotarian Mark Shultz with RC Los Olivos that participated on the trip to Romania performed 3 days of free dental work for the Children at CHAD and Mia s Children. Mark worked 3 full days and covered all the children from both organizations (over 30 children). Part of this effort he performed also some complicated procedures with having as assistant one of his fellow Rotarians from the Los Olivos club. July 2005 Rotarian Dana Bivolaru, classification: attorney from Bucharest RC visited Rebury Park Club July 2005 Rotarian Mike Moldovan, of Newbury Park, went in the flooded areas of Romania with relief help purchased through donations from individuals and Clubs. Total: $3,500 August 2005 Rotarian Sorin Muntean, of Newbury Park, visited the following Romania Clubs: Constanta and Mangalia. With both Clubs there are active Matching Grants. 7
October 2005 RC Newbury Park, RC Moorpark and RC Bucharest Atheneum sponsored and organized a fundraiser performance done by a group leaded by Rotarians Mihaela Vosganian and Liliana Iorgulescu with Atheneum Club in Bucharest. All the funds will go for organizing a summer camp in June 2006 at the seaside in Romania for children with hemophilia. November 2005 RC Newbury Park cosponsored Bucharest Levant Club. 2005 Matching Grant RC Newbury Park & RC Bucharest Club for Mia s Children appliances and Summer Camp. Total: $9,000 8
2005 Matching Grant RC Moorpark & RC Bucharest Rotary for CHAD orphanage appliances and furniture. Total: $11,000 2005 Matching Grant RC Camarillo Breakfast & RC Sibiu Home for educating children that are getting out of the institutions once they turn 18. Total: $25,000 2006 Matching Grant RC Pismo Beach & RC Constanta dental equipment and supplies for the local dental school. Total: $10,500 9
2006 Matching Grant RC Newbury Park & RC Mangalia Local community hospital to purchase surgical table and accessories for orthopedics. Total: $18,250 2006 Matching Grant - RC Cambria & RC Bucharest Mia s Children to purchase a van for the association and pay for next summer camp. Total: $18,250 10
2006 - Matching Grant RC Moorpark & RC Mangalia Fund Summer Camp for Children that suffer of Hemophilia. Total: $21,650 2006 DSG RC Newbury Park helped to fund shipping expenses to send a container with donated goods: books, medical equipment from UCLA, dental equipment. Total $4,700 2006 RC Los Olivos donations for CHAD. Total: $6,000 2007 Matching Grant RC Cambria Sunrise & RC Bucharest Levant Casa Mea Orphanage Prejmer to purchase appliances, furniture. Total:$17,650 11
2007 Matching Grant RC Newbury Park & RC Simi Sunrise & RC Mangalia Mangalia hospital tom purchase monitors for ICU. Total: $17,950 2007 Matching Grant RC Warner Center (D5260) & RC Thousand Oaks & RC Lugoj Lugoj Hospital to purchase a colonoscopy module. Total: $18,000 2007 DSG RC Cambria Sunrise Mia s Children Day Center to purchase appliances. Total: $2,000 12
May 2007 Trip to Romania with members of RC Newbury Park, RC Cambria Sunrise, RC Warner Center (5260). There were three VSGs that covered some of the members travel expenses. May 2007 RC Newbury Park donations to Casa Mea and Mia s Children. Total $2,000 13
July 2007 RC Los Olivos donation for Mia s Children. Total: $3,000 2007 RC Newbury Park, RC Cambria, RC Moorpark, RC Cambria Sunrise, RC Los Olivos, RC Conejo Valley, RC Warner Center & RC Woodland Hills (5260) - Mia s Children Calendars & Cards Fundraiser. Total: $27,500 14
2008 Matching Grant RC Newbury Park, RC Ranford, UK (D1240) & RC Mangalia Mangalia Hospital lab equipment for cervical cancer prevention testing. Total: $24,250 2008 Matching Grant RC Moorpark & RC Newbury Park & RC Buzias Hemophilia Center for a solar system for the therapy pool. Total: $19,000 15
2008 Wheelchair Container RC Newbury Park, RC Conejo Valley, RC De Hull, Canada (D1270) Total: $21,000 May 2008 RC Newbury Park & RC Cambria donation to Bucharest Rotary Clubs Gala. Total $2,000 May 2008 RC Cambria donation for Mia s Children. Total $1,000 16
June 2008 Los Angles International Convention - Resigning the ICC agreement Adding D5260 to the ICC 17
August 2008 RC Los Olivos donation for Mia s Children. Total: $1,440 2008 Matching Grant RC Newbury Park, RC Thousand Oaks, RC Atascadero & RC Cambria Mia s Children. Total: 18,438 2008 DSG RC Newbury Park Casa Mea Romania. Total: $2,000 Only in 2007 raised almost $100,000 For the duration of the ICC US Romania raised almost $500,000 If we add the in kind donations almost $1,000,000 About 50 Rotarians visited Romania About 20 Rotarians from Romania visited D5240 We raised money to help Romania on its new way towards democracy We develop friendships across the World!!!! 18