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Editor: Susana Brown
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"A woman on a mission to improve the lives of institutionalized children in Romania"
Eileen O'Connell, RN, is making a difference in the lives of many children. She explained why she is so passionate about Romania, its people and the work of the Romanian Children's Relief. www.RCR.org Romanian Children's Relief began in the spring of 1990 after a BOSTON GLOBE photo-documentary by Photographer, Michael Carroll and Dr. Bill Griffo of New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, exposed the plight of the Romanian orphans and the nation's pediatric AIDS epidemic. Due to the overwhelming public response to that news story, a group of dedicated people in New England got together and formed Romanian Children's Relief in Spring, 1990 as a U.S.-based, charitable, non-profit foundation. The group was also incorporated as a Romanian charitable foundation, FUNDATIA INOCENTI, in 1998. RCR/Fundatia Inocenti sent their first relief shipment to Romania in 1990 and currently supports 22 Romanian professional staff working in hospitals, orphanages and foster care programs.
Over the past 15 years, RCR/Inocenti has provided more than $2 Million in personnel; foster family support services, shipments of medical supplies, educational equipment, training exchanges, University tuition, and countless hours of training and support to professionals in the area of child development. While we raise approximately $150,000 in cash donations per year, we support 22 staff people in Romania and deliver more than twice that amount in training services, staff and family support, as well as relief supplies shipped to Romania. Our American and Romanian Board of Directors are all-volunteer. Our offices are housed in the homes of volunteers. We hope you will join us in our mission to help the children. (Note: Romanian Children's Relief /Fundatia Inocenti is not an adoption agency or a religiously based organization.)
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