Community Relations - Romania

The following organisations are supported by British Airways and receive complimentary tickets, cargo and excess baggage.

Aid for Children

Aid for Children was formed in 1994 to help sick and orphaned children in Romania. The aim of the organisation is to improve the quality of life and conditions for terminally ill children in the last period of their lives. The hospice now receives terminally ill children from all areas of Romania. The hospice has been open since 2004 and was officially opened by the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens.

Cry in the Dark

In February 1998 three friends entered the Dofteana Children’s Orphanage in Romania. In the cold, dark and filthy living conditions they found 26 children in various states of dress, rarely washed or taken to the toilet. Several were seriously ill, physically and mentally handicapped, and some had HIV, Aids and hepatitis.

Just over two years later the friends had established a charity and raised the money to buy, renovate, extend and equip Casa Lumina, House of Light, a new home for the forgotten children of Dofteana.

The Myosotis Trust

The Myosotis Trust was set up 9 years ago to try and help the orphaned children and desperately poor families living in Birlad, a rural town in the eastern part of Romania. Initially the trust worked to try and release the abandoned children from the only place that the authorities could house them the Psychiatric Hospital, a desperate establishment for adults with mental problems.

To date the trust has established a modern Health Centre that looks after the needs of the poor and the disabled, and a small day school that cares for abandoned children with learning disabilities, many of whom were born with HIV.