Scheherazade Foundation with Enel Romania organized a Christmas tree lighting at the children’s hospital Marie Curie
The event took place in the evening of Dec. 7, in the presence of Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, the Ambassador of Italy – Daniele Mancini, Ambassador of Canada – Marta Moszczenska, Ambassador of Austria – Dr. Christian Zeileissen, UNHCR representative of Romania – Machiel Salomons, Regional Representative of the International Monetary Fund – Juan Jose Fernandez Ansola and other diplomatic personalities. From the Enel was currently Matteo Codazzi, President of Enel Romania.
Over 1,000 children accompanied by their families, patients of the hospital or children in the neighborhood, they received gifts during the event, many of them seeing him for the first time on Santa Claus. Nearly 100 volunteers have shared gifts of children around the tree and those in hospital.
The next event will take place in March 2008, will be an exhibition of photos released by Cristian Movila, a young Romanian photographer who works in New York Times and has worked with many prestigious publications around the world. The project was developed in the hospital where the photographer Marie Curie followed for 2 years sad story of sick children of cancer. Also, the journalist Paul Radu joined the project and has written several reports.
The exhibition will be followed by a campaign to collect funds and sponsorship for the oncology department of Hospital Marie Curie.
The objective of the exhibition will help Marie Curie Hospital to improve the ability to detect cancer in the juvenile onset.
With these events, Scheherazade Foundation aims to draw attention to problems faced by health institutions, to wake up people’s conscience on these issues and to convince them to take action.