Search Results  Volunteer and teach in Romania...  An
undiscovered land of beautiful mountains, medieval towns and
hospitable people.  Romania is one of those countries that
everybody has heard of but nobody knows much about, it is one of
the poorest countries in Eastern Europe and was one of the more
ardent supporters of the old Soviet empire until it's Dictator;
Nicolae Ceausescu, was deposed in a coup by the people in 1989;
because of the severity of his regime the Romanian people
suffered greatly under him; the infrastructure of the country
was also eroded by communist corruption and greed to the point
that by the time the people rose up there was not much left to
save.  Despite this Romania is one of the last discovered
treasures of Europe; the beautiful rural areas with their
haystacks and horse and carts, the sumptuous medieval and Saxon
towns and villages and the architecturally stunning capital,
Bucharest, with it's impressive, gaunt soviet edifices sitting
side by side with the fragile beauty of it'