Another full day. First visit Natalia's family in Gai. Here we have grandparents, 3 daughters and their families all living under the same roof in a house that is only partly finished. Each has one room. Natalia who is being supported with growth hormone treatment has 9 siblings - their living conditions are very very poor and the mother struggles to cope. Here are their cooking and heating facilities. There are some doubts whether one of the younger children may have the same medical problem as Natalia. We give thanks that S & L supply this family with a monthly food parcel. The grandmother was poorly having been discharged from hospital that morning. The children were overjoyed with their gifts.
Later in the day I went with Adina in the minibus to transport school children (including her niece P) to a Children's Home and school for disabled children - where they were singing carols. We were welcomed by the Social Director of the large Christian Romanian Charity who run the homes located in 3 blocks. I recall visiting these children with Christmas gifts many years ago when it was a State run establishment. Also during the summer of 2007 Wayne and I had accompanied a group of them with "one to one" volunteer support to a summer camp where we did the catering for 2 weeks. I was overjoyed to meet up again with some familiar faces. Elena (wife of Marius from SNM) works as a teacher at this campus.
Today Adina has learned of another family who desperately need help. They are a father with 2 young children of 4 and 8. The mother has left the family home and the grandmother who cared for the children died the previous week. The father has a job but the children are spending very long hours in an office room adjoining his workplace. Adina will visit to establish the needs and we will make up shoe box gifts and food parcels for them. After collecting 11 shoe boxes from Sofronea Adina and I bombed it along to O Children's Home in Timisoara. This is a beautiful Christian family run Girl's Home. The girls and house parents are adapting well to the new care arrangement. It was great to meet up with J & R again - sisters that we have been involved with for many years. J is sponsored through our Charity and both Anne & I had bought gifts for the sisters. We also supplied Christmas gifts for the staff who do a wonderful job.
Cerbu and Nadia the founders of the Foundation supporting the Home have also been responsible for the building of a Boys Home in the countryside. This is nearing completion and will offer a new life to boys who are either homeless or potentially homeless and who need, love, support and to be taught life skills. I understand the plan is that they will grow their own vegetables and care for animals. We pray for God's blessing on the project.It was late as we set out for home along the motorway to Arad and a problem arose with Adina's Peugeot car. There was a strange noise affecting the acceleration and we started to pray that we would make it off the motorway!! We took the first exit to Arad and the car stopped completely on the exit roundabout. We gave thanks that it was nighttime and not so busy - in between the flow of traffic we managed to push the vehicle around onto the verge of the exit road and oh boy did we give thanks for safety!!! After he finished work, Danny, Adina's brother came and towed her back - it appeared the clutch had gone. In the meantime- Danny's wife came and took me back to the apartment although I was happy to wait with Adina.
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