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Lidia Lombard and Marian Modoran have been coordinating UAC Child Protection Services in Romania since 1991. UAC Romania has two departments: Medical Aid and Relief Program and Permanency Planning Program.
Medical Aid and Relief Program. UAC was dedicated to improving the life of children in need in Romania by donating medical supplies, medical equipment, cloths, shoes, beauty supplies, etc.
UAC goal in Romania is to actively support children in need through a portfolio of development activities which are planned and implemented cooperatively.
UAC Children Programs coordinated by Lidia Lombard, UAC European Program Director in counties like Mures, Covasna, Iasi helped to facilitate the right and ability of all Romanian children to attain their full potential and live a better life.
UAC funds provided "Familia" Foundation with the resources it needed to fully establish and fund foster care services, reunification of families, prevention of abandon, etc in the counties like Covasna, Iasi, and Mures and paved the way for domestic and international adoptions to occur in Romania. "Familia" Foundation's foster care projects in the above mentioned counties answered the needs of hundreds of Romanian children in the region.
Permanency Planning Program. Every child needs the love and belonging of a family. Starting from this believe, UAC Romania developed three major programs in the children's best interest: Family Preservation Program which enables the child to remain with his biological parents, Domestic Adoption Program which places the child with a Romanian adoptive family and International Adoption Program which places the child with a family in the United States.
Since 1991, with its innovative services and offering the best available alternatives to families, UAC Romania has united hundreds of Romanian children with adoptive families on the American soil.
In 2004 Lidia Lombard has completed part of UAC cases registered under the Emergency Law 347/2002. Americans adopted 168 children under this law, children already referred to families before moratorium. Unfortunately, after these children were united with their families, no other international adoptions were allowed. After the presidential elections in November 2004, the new elected Romanian President, Traian Basescu, promised to the American officials that he will try to find an alternative to complete the so called "pipeline cases".