OREANDA-NEWS. November 30, 2011. The Rompetrol Group, through the national program of social responsibility “Together for Everybody” has managed to attract 70 volunteers both from the company and community in order to transform a piece of waste land in a sports facility, designated for pupils of Navodari town. The Group has also financially supported this environmental project with 10,000 Euros.

 “We agreed upon the proposal of the local community to create the first sports ground for pupils of Navodari and together we managed to transform a waste land in a facility for practicing sports. Through their involvement, we consider that this environmental investment will be continued and will be supported both by local authorities and especially by the community and the teen-agers, who are the main beneficiaries of this project”, declares Alexey Golovin, Marketing and Communications Director of The Rompetrol Group.

Started on the 15th of August, the ecologization of the waste ground having the surface of 2610 m2 represented an occasion for educating and attracting the community in the promotion of environmental protection, through seminars and painting exhibitions on ecological themes in the town schools.

In the last day of the project – November, 16, 2011 – Rompetrol has organized a workshop on environment protection topics, where 60 pupils from School ”Grigore Moisil” and Lyceum ”Lazar Edeleanu” have participated. The pupils-winners have brought to Navodari community a prize, consisting of 5,000 Euros offered by Rompetrol for building a rink in 2012.

"By arranging the only sports facility for pupils we have created new opportunities for children and teen-agers from Navodari, a place for recreation, socialization and sporting contests”, has declared Daniela Marin, project coordinator on the part of the Navodari Social Assistance Office.

About 4,000 children enrolled in the educational institutions of the Navodari city, four general schools and a lyceum, will benefit of the new sports ground, equipped with tribunes, ecological orderly bins and a green space.

are direct beneficiaries of this works.

In 2010 the community of Navodari was supported with 50,000 RON by Rompetrol for rehabilitation and equipping of the school dental office at the ”Lazar Edeleanu” Lyceum.