Barb & Radu Ukraine Refugee Housing - Romania

Hi all, this is Barb and Radu from Boulder, Colorado and Brasov, Romania. We are asking for donations to cover the maintenance costs of our second home in Romania, where we are in the process of housing Ukrainian refugees. Without your help, we would be shutting down the heat, emptying the water radiators, locking down and waiting for more affordable energy prices in order to be able to live at our home in Romania or rent it out at times. Our latest natural gas bill was ~3000 RON ($662) for a three-bedroom, and this was at the lower rates from before the war started. We expect higher energy bills for the short term, even with the price reductions applied by the Romanian government.

 

Here is our ad on Airbnb.com, also advertised on Airbnb.org: https://airbnb.com/h/valleyviewbara . Shortly after posting, we got a one-month reservation from four women, escaping Kyiv with one dog and one cat. They are on their way and will arrive March 11th. They have nowhere else to go, no relatives in other countries as far as we understand, so they are likely to stay long term.

Friends and family are helping, and the home has all the necessary amenities - we lived there over the winter. We are set to wait for the guests and provide any local help we can from the US and locally in Brasov, Romania. 

 

Here is Radu's consulting web presence page: https://www.radu.page Please reach out with any questions or use this fundraire's form to send questions.

All the money raised will be used to cover our costs of providing housing to Ukrainian refugees for up to 12 months, and charge them nothing. Should we end up with a surplus if the war ends soon, which will be great, we will donate the rest to the Colorado-based Romanian American Freedom Alliance (RAFA) - see their website here, we have been involved with this 100% volunteer organization for two decades: https://www.rafa.org

Thank you so very much. We hope that this horrible war will end soon.

Radu and Barb