Iasmina is just 4 years old and is the sweetest little girl imaginable. She lives with her mother - her father left the family home when Iasmina was just 3 months old. When her mother was 6 months pregnant she was told that her daughter would be severely disabled. After she was born the doctors clearly said that she should be left to die because if she survived then she would never walk, talk or lead a normal life. The mother refused to give up on her only child even though she was diagnosed with 12 serious conditions (including spina bifida) for which she takes an enormous amount of medication. Little Iasmina is also in and out of hospital and tomorrow she and her mother travel for 5 hours by train to Cluj where she will spend a further 2 weeks having tests and treatment on her legs which are deformed. She also has decaying teeth due to her medical condition. Although Adreana is only 33 herself she struggles to walk because she has arthritus and tonight fell as she was coming to the apartment. 
3 years ago Adreana commenced a college course in "Kinetic Therapy and Special Traction" in order to help her daughter and hopefully other children in a similar situation. She finishes the course next July and hopes to find a job to help support them but the hours will have to be worked around Iasmina's needs. Iasmina is truly a miracle child - for someone who was not expected to walk she can run and is a bouncy and chatty little girl despite her disabilities. She has to take an enormous amount of medication which is so expensive and needs a special diet(also costly here)
Adreana struggles so much financially because her expenditure (rent for a one roomed apartment, medication, other medical expenses such as tests and special shoes plus dietary food and nappies etc) far outweighs her income of a disability allowance and child allocation. Mum tonight told me that she eats only Iasmina's left overs. She has no family support because they live at the other end of the country in the poor area of Moldova. We give thanks that we have a Mighty God who sees all our needs. It was not by chance that Adreana met Adina who also referred her case to Jackie whose Foundation is now offering some monthly financial support. It was not by chance that Adina introduced Adreana and Iasmina to her Church, which I also attend. It was not by chance that Little Iasmina is now enrolled in a Christian Kinder Garden and is doing well there.
Tonight Adreana told me that since meeting Adina her life has dramatically changed for the better and miracles have happened. She now regularly attends Church with Iasmina and is growing in Christ. They are now living in a safe locality in a rented one roomed apartment with a small kitchen and bathroom (they previously rented one room only at the back of a house), Iasmina is being seen by medical experts in Cluj, she has a new family in Christ but most of all she has a loving God who is on her case and in her own words tonight she now has "hope". We prayed for them both before they left tonight.
Please join us in prayer for Iasmina and her mother. If you would like to help financially support this family then please contact me.
If you would like to read more on this case then please read Pastor Jackie's blog linked to this page on the right of the screen.
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