Romania

Born in 1991 in Vaslui, Romania
Loredana-Diana is a fourth-year student of Engineering and Management in the Public Food Industry at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Iasi, Romania. She also started her own business in her hometown of Vaslui and runs two shops that sell eggs and chicken meat. (Last updated 2013)

"Profession: Survivor" (2010)

This project has at its centre the life of war veterans from Romania with a special focus on what  changes the war brought to them from a professional point of view. Most of them went from being farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters and teachers to infantry rifle shooters, scouts, communication technicians and even nurses. People that had done some training before could be taken into higher positions like officers and doctors, but that didn’t guarantee that they wouldn’t be sent on the front. Many of these people lost their families during the war and had to start from scratch again, not mentioning that some had problems finding a job and readjusting to work again. 

For her project, Loredana- Diana Basalic was awarded second prize in the Romanian History competition from 2010.