The Smart Energy Association (AEI) is starting today the second edition of its "Houses with Warmth" project designed to support families in distress by distributing firewood necessary to heat homes in winter.
"Our action will reveal another side of Bucharest, a city of contrasts, where there are houses that are heated with firewood, inhabited by people who live on the edge of poverty," according to organisers.
Part of this action, a registry of houses without heat will be launched, made by AEI in partnership with the Romanian Red Cross, that takes stock nationwide by counties of homes that use wood stoves as a heating source, inhabited by vulnerable people or families that include elderly, people with disabilities, single-parent families and large families on a small imcome.
The second edition of the project will start with the delivery of firewood to the first beneficiary house of this program located in Bucharest City District 3.
Attending the release will be Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja, and General Manager of the National Red Cross Society Romania Adrian Halpert.
"We want to bring a ray of hope to those people, who have nothing to warm their homes with, and also to prevent random wood logging, and especially to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere as a result of the use of green wood, often illegally procured in the wintertime," according to AEI.