I have a Romanian mother, the kind that holds you to her chest until you cry. The kind that, in my childhood, used to shout to you in the evening from the kitchen window to come quickly into the house before she came for you. Together with my father she managed the incredible feat, from my perspective today, of surviving communism on just two workers' salaries...
"Thoughts on the anniversary of the Foundation", message from Cătălina Negru, one of the founders of ROMPRO Today is a double celebration: it is 7 years since we started the first "Romanians for Romanians" activities and 6 years since the legal establishment of ROMPRO Foundation. For me personally these 7 years are very important, being the period in which I chose to get actively involved for the creation of a...
One of the many activities of ROMPRO Foundation is providing support in urgent social cases. This is done within the limits of volunteers' availability and using their own resources and the help of the community, without funding or subsidies. In the 6 years we have been active, we have solved dozens of social aid cases, uniting around us those who wanted to...
Order a pizza online via Thuisbezorgd? Then ROMPRO will automatically receive a small percentage of the order value, but at no cost to you. Large online shops such as Bol, Coolblue, Hema, Booking, Greetz and MediaMarkt also participate. A percentage of the purchase price goes to the ROMPRO Foundation. And again, it costs you nothing extra! Would you like to sponsor ROMPRO for FREE? Make sure you shop...
Looking for the equivalent of a dollar store, euro shop or pound shop in the Netherlands? Here's what we know about cheap shopping in the land of kortingen (discounts). The longer you live here and look around, the more you'll learn about the best places to shop. Sometimes we all just need some guidance on budgeting...
This article provides information to help you fill in the aangifte inkomstenbelasting or income tax return in the Netherlands. Who has to file an income tax return? Everyone who receives a declaration letter from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) must file an income tax return. If you have not received a declaration letter...
We ended our fifth year of ROMPRO activity with a result we are proud of despite the pandemic we have been through. Below you can see some of our activities. We hope that this year we will be able to better integrate our team of volunteers and put at least as much energy into our community. Financial reports on...
Every autumn in the Netherlands, Children's Book Week (Kinderboekenweek) takes place, a nationwide, well-publicised event in which almost all schools, libraries and bookshops participate. In 2018 and 2019, at the initiative of Maria Dicieanu (BiebRO coordinator) and with the support of the Romanian School Amsterdam and the ROMPRO Foundation, we brought close to the Romanian community in the Netherlands two outstanding publications, "The Story of...
When you move to another country, your priorities are often about your job and the roof over your head. Only once these are taken care of, can you afford to consider other aspects of good management that can improve your quality of life. We meet the need for information alongside...
Petronela Rotar returns to Amsterdam! But this time only virtually, through an online meeting with readers. The author of several novels included in the collection of the Dutch Romanian Library such as "Looking In", "Orbi", "The End of the Night" or "O să mă știi de undeva" will tell us, among other things, about the work on her latest book "Help me not to disappear"....
Lovers of the Romanian port from all over the world celebrate every year the Universal Day of Lei on June 24th! IA is more than just a garment. It is solid proof of our universal need to communicate through fashion. On this occasion Rompro invites you to celebrate together this wonderful holiday in the Romanian spirit as we deserve. We...
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