Lending a helping hand: Volunteers come together to offer warm meals to the needy in Romania

A social project started six years ago in Cluj-Napoca has grown into a countrywide community project in which volunteers come together to cook and offer warm meals to the needy.

Worrying European statistics about the level of poverty in Romania are published every year, and things seem to be changing for the better way too slowly. For example, Eurostat data made public last fall said that Romania was one of the three EU Member States where more than a third of the population was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2017. In this context, any social project helping the disadvantaged people in Romania is always welcome.