Sighișoara · Județul Mureș · România
De nouă ani, voluntarii noștri bat la uși în Sighișoara și în satele din jur — ducând pâine, medicamente, ajutor la teme și, mai ales, companie. Niemals Allein este o asociație non-profit românească făcută de vecini, pentru vecini.
Cifrele acoperă anul de raportare 2025 și provin din raportul de activitate depus la registrul județean Mureș.
De ce existăm
Sighișoara is a small town with a long memory. Romanian, Saxon, Hungarian and Roma families have lived side by side here for centuries. But over the last three decades, migration has emptied whole staircases of apartment blocks and left many older residents without a single person to call.
Niemals Allein — “Never Alone”, a name borrowed from the German-speaking Saxon heritage of our town — was registered in 2017 by twelve neighbours who decided that this quiet form of abandonment was not acceptable. We work street by street, name by name.
Află mai multWe do not wait for beneficiaries to fill in forms. Our field teams visit households, parishes and village halls, and referrals come from doctors, teachers and neighbours.
A relationship, not a one-off delivery. The average companion pairing in our elderly programme has lasted 26 months.
Every leu received is recorded, reported annually and published on this website in line with Romanian non-profit law.
Ce facem
Each programme was created in response to a need our volunteers met in person — not to a funding call.
Program 01
Our founding programme pairs a trained volunteer with an isolated older person for a weekly visit of at least one hour. The visit is the point: conversation, a shared coffee, a walk to the market, help with reading a letter from the pension office.
Program 02
Monthly food parcels for low-income households, single-parent families and families caring for a member with a disability. Each standard parcel covers basic staples for approximately two weeks for a family of four and is adapted for dietary and medical needs.
Program 03
Our after-school room offers free homework support, literacy and numeracy catch-up, and a hot meal to children at risk of dropping out — many of them from Roma families in the Cornești and Viilor districts.
Program 04
Isolation is not only material. Our community programme creates the ordinary occasions in which a town becomes a community again: the “Masa Lungă” long-table lunch, Saxon and Romanian heritage afternoons, intergenerational craft workshops, and neighbourhood clean-up days.
Portret de voluntar
The first time I visited Domnul Ilie he did not open the door. The second time he opened it and did not speak. By the third month he was waiting for me at the window with the coffee already made. That is the whole job — showing up until someone expects you.
Our 148 active volunteers include students from Colegiul Mircea Eliade, retired nurses, shop owners and two whole families. Every volunteer completes safeguarding training before their first visit.
Din teren
Together with the local parish councils we delivered firewood and thermal blankets before the first heavy frost. Nine households were also connected to the county social services for longer-term support.
Thanks to a CSR partnership with a Mureș manufacturing company, we added twenty places and a hot meal for children attending our homework support sessions.
Our annual long-table lunch in the lower citadel courtyard gathered Romanian, Saxon, Hungarian and Roma families around one table for the sixth year running.
Small, repeated acts are what hold a town together. Choose the one you can commit to.
