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Where we work, in rural North West of Romania | Life is really simple, many in wood & mud brick dwellings | Water is now plumbed to many dwellings but most are a stand pipe outside |
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Most live in one or two rooms | Cooking in the family home is basic | Four children and one bed share a room with parents |
Our team in Romania, Pastor Daniel & Vetuta | Dani, Sarah, Tobi and Ella | Work from a local church where we base Pro Community Romania our sister charity |
Inside we have a flexible arrangement to cope with worship and community functions | Sunday service | A kitchen was built in 2011 so meals could be served |
The elderly are invited for meals | 2014 saw the building of an extension to the church to support children's work | |
With little social support some try to live on £50 per month where the cost of living is the same as UK | Losing your spouse and with no financial support CAR step in with food and aid | Every month our team put together food packs from donations made by sponsors in the UK |
The visit and the food are a welcome relief for so many isolated an lonely | We also support three schools | |
Turning outside wooden latrines like this | and this | |
To in house toilets with running water | Blackboards with over 50 years service are replaced thanks to donations from Schools in UK | Thank you Leighton Middle School |
Lockers rather than the floor for school materials and clothing | School materials are provided as many parents cant afford text books | |
Desks replaced and materials provided including laptops for the teachers | Gavin, a fireman from the UK teaches children how to be safe | |
Playgrounds provide an area for children and parents to meet | CAR over 15 years have supported local doctors who work for the community | |
Adrianna and Nicu stand proudly by their new ECG machine | CAR provided smoke alarms from the UK to the village houses as fires in these mud built houses are frequent | A fire engine has been provided to the volunteers |
A run down stables was acquired and rebuilt by the youth | turning it into ......... | |
A life and health centre equipped with old equipment donated from the UK | And it not just for the boys | |
An old fish farm with a bit of renovation | and a coat of paint becomes | A swimming pool. Critical in 40 degree summers |
Running a holiday club for children is a real treat. Thank you Hockliffe Street Baptist Church | The human assault course. Fun is the essential ingredient | |
Baloon basket ball | face painting is a big hit | |
Tobi feeling patriotic | Youngsters get there own back to face paint the adults | And of course their is cake |
Even the leaders try their hand at the human pyramid | colouring and art | Don't fancy being Daniel in this Lion's den |
Maybe this one isn't so fierce |
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