Leontina and family

Whilst in Romania last year I wrote about Leontina and her family after visiting them in their home.  L has dwarf syndrome and she and her shepherd husband desperately wanted a child.  After some failed miscarriages and spending time in the hospital eventually little Rebecca was born. However she is severely physically and mentally disabled and they both spend a considerable amount of time in hospital with her.  Leontina is unable to lift her daughter out of the hospital crib so her husband has to stay also.    They returned home just 3 days ago after a 2 month stay at the hospital.    The family live in one room in poor conditions in Vladimirescu, a village just outside Arad.    Dad now has 4 sheep so he is slowly building his herd.


Today on route to Hunedoara we called in with  Christmas food parcel for the family and also a Christmas shoe box for little Rebecca.