You have arrived in the Netherlands, found accommodation and taken care of all the formalities necessary for this important step. Everything seems great, you feel like a new person, you are excited to discover the new city that has adopted you. This excitement lasts for quite a short time, then you start to feel homesick, homesick for your loved ones and homesick for everything...
Adina and Wouter Janssen are two people who are passionate about sustainable living and believe that each of us can contribute to maintaining a healthy planet through even small actions. In the summer of 2023, Adina and Wouter decided to start a project to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), called Cycle4GlobalGoals...
1. First, tell us a little about yourself. Who is Luiza Manea-Cijsouw? I'm Luiza Manea, Cijsouw after my husband, I'm 40 years old, I have two little boys, one 6 years old, Milan and one two and a half years old, Matthijs. I have been living in the Netherlands for 23 years. Born in Bucharest, I started gymnastics at the age of 5. My parents, more from...
First, tell us a little about yourself. Who is Gabi Ungureanu? Gabi: Gabi is one of the Romanians who dreamed of a world full of possibilities, free of the frustrations and problems they faced for years in their homeland. Born in the last years of the communist period and raised in the chaos that followed, I still remember with...
2022 was an interesting year for the social department. It started with a change in the coordination of the department and a change in strategy. Whereas until this year the department had been almost exclusively focused on helping individual cases, 2022 saw a shift towards an approach that aims to inform the community about aspects of life in the Netherlands....
2022 has been the most ambitious year since the opening of the Dutch Romanian Library so far, both online and physically. Throughout the year we held weekly live meetings on Facebook BiebRO Mondays where we presented new books by Romanian authors, promoted literary events that took place in the Netherlands but...
The present and the future interest me more than the past. Yes, I am Romanian, born in Suceava and raised on the Black Sea, but life has taken me on many waves and I have been living in Amsterdam for over 20 years. Being gay is just one of the things that define me. First and foremost, I am Jorge's partner, my life and business partner. I rely on him and his love to be able to be creative and take risks. Owning some of the biggest gay bars in the Netherlands is not easy. At the moment I am the owner of Blend and Blend XL bars in Reguliersdwarsstraat and YOLO club in Amsterdam. Besides that I am ...
I don't remember exactly when I started hearing jokes around me about other sexual orientations. It seems like several lifetimes have passed since then. I only know that we "suspected" and "made fun" of colleagues or friends and didn't dare discuss anything about it with them. And they probably didn't dare to tell us anything, that is.
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...
The Romanian Library of the Netherlands together with the Romanian Embassy in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are pleased to invite you to a unique event: a meeting with the Romanian author Dana Grigorcea. Dana Grigorcea debuted in 2002 in Romanian literature with short prose: a travel diary from the Holy Land. She studied German and Dutch at the Faculty of Foreign Languages in...
Despite a difficult, challenging 2021, in which we had to adapt quickly to many changes coming our way, we ended ROMPRO's sixth year with very good results. A year in which we evolved together. Below you can see some of our activities. You can find the financial reports by year on the about us page. Interconnections...
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...
