Today Adina and I are visiting the Maranata Children's Home in Hunedoara and also doing other visits on our return journey. There are currently 24 children being cared for at the home, , 5 of which are sponsored through our Charity.
The journey takes approximately 2 hours and we are grateful that the weather is still quite mild for the time of year. Many times we have done this journey in the snow. More funding is needed for this Children's Home and Pasta Hada has recently had to close his adjoining soup kitchen for poor families.It is always a joy to spend time with the children and they always sing carols for us before we do the distributions. It is so important that we recognise the dedicated work of the staff in these establishments and each year we buy them little Christmas gifts too. I hope you enjoy the pictures - there was much excitement and joy.
On the way home we visited a family who have triplets and 5 other children. When people say that Romanians do not help their own - this is not true. A large Romanian Charity in Arad purchased a piece of land for this family and have built them a house - with manual help from the father. However the family will have to finish some of the work themselves.. Prior to this they were all living in 2 rooms in a house shared with other family members. We noted that there was less stress in the house. As we approached the house down a really muddy slope I slipped whilst carrying 6 shoe boxes stacked up. Whilst I managed to remain on my feet the boxes went flying into the mud. We were all hysterical with laughter but there was much cleaning up of the boxes to do before they could be distributed. 
Last stop of the night was Kaufland supermarket for more gifts for staff of children's homes and Mocrea Psychiatric Hospital. 
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