Home News Serving people in need Floare de colt Educational Services House on the Rock Romanian Studies Volunteers needed Financial Needs Ecology Club Sighisoara Church of the Nazarene Staff & Volunteer directory Photo Album Targul Mestesugarilor © Veritas Sighisoara, 2002	Volunteers needed The programs of Veritas depend on close cooperation between paid Romanian staff, Romanian volunteers, and volunteers and students from the west.
		Romanian volunteers: Volunteer coordinator Eugenia Maior interviews potential volunteers and places them either in one of the local institutions or in one of the programs of Veritas. Currently Romanian volunteers work with abandoned children in the pediatric section of the local hospital running a craft program at the local old people's home providing socio-educational activities at the girls' orphanage at Veritas elderly program
	New volunteers are currently needed to work with isolated elderly and handicapped people. Volunteers should be willing to give two or three hours a week to visit an elderly or handicapped person, do simple household chores, and/or simply spend time chatting over a cup of tea. Romanians interested in volunteering should call Petronia Popa at Tel. Nr. 779999 Western volunteers: Volunteers typically come for periods varying from a month to a year, or longer. Currently Veritas can use persons with skills and experience in the following areas: working with children from deprived backgrounds, the disabled, the elderly community nursing reaching out to children and young people through teaching drama, music, art teaching English as a Second Language youth ministry, including counseling on issues such as substance abuse, sexuality, etc. administration of a non-profit organization - financial management, staff development and supervision, program development fund-raising and grant-writing small business development (current projects include a coffee shop, a small farm, desk-top publishing, tourism services) Volunteers must respect the Christian values for which Veritas stands and be willing to work as members of the Veritas team. Members of the Church of the Nazarene are required to come to Romania under the "Nazarene in Volunteer Service" program, For more specific information about volunteer opportunities, contact Veritas Director Dorothy Tarrant at veritas@veritas.ro