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Romanian-American Freedom Alliance
About Romanian-American Freedom Alliance
The Romanian-American Freedom Alliance is a non-profit organization established in Colorado in 1990 after the collapse of the Communist regime in Romania. Its mission is both humanitarian and educational. RAFA’s principal goal is to help children and needy families in Romania, as well as to provide medical supplies and equipment to Romanian hospitals. An annual Romanian Festival in downtown Boulder raises the funds for these efforts. In addition, the festival showcases various aspects of Romanian culture to the local population through folk dances, ethnic foods and artifacts.
The Romanian-American Freedom Alliance was founded in the summer of 1990 as an immediate result of the revolutionary upheaval in Romania in December 1989. Several dozen of Colorado’s Romanian-Americans gathered at the State Capitol in Denver on December 30, 1989, to demonstrate in support of the revolution and to mourn those who had been killed during the Communist dictatorship. With the opening of Romania’s borders and newly found freedoms for its citizens, these Romanian-Americans were eager to help at last their battered native country.