Here is a new newsletter, in which we want to tell you about the work we do in Romania. First you can read the journey report of Willem Dijkman who went to Romania together with Armando, Rogier and of course Wouko Snijder.

Journey Report to Romania: 8-11 to 17-11-2001

After a prosperous journey of 2 days we, Wouko, Armando, Rogier and I, we came to the Marcu family in Brasov, where we hearty received by the hole family and Gabi and Esther Vansca where also there. During our journey we visit Nico and Silvia Stroica in Galsa, in the neighbourhood of Arad, where Wouko give him money to built greenhouses for their horticulture products. Nico and Silvia where very happy with this money what means a whole year salary for them. In the Saturday morning. Armando and Rogier, they went together with our contact person D. Marcu to a big supermarket that is out of the city, to do some shopping for the food-parcels. Every month our foundation supports 12 families with a food parcel. After the food-parcel was composed, we brought them to the families.

We went to many families inside there houses and we saw the poverty where so many people life in, mostly in too little apartments. Sometimes the families live with 11 children in a 2 room's apartment and you see that there are only beds in the living room. With Wouko I stay a little bit longer at some of the families and than you get the impression how these people live in sometimes bad situation. At the Haghel family you see that in spite of the handicap of there sons, who all have muscle dystrophy and one of theme can not walk anymore and move around with a wheelchair, they live happy in there new 4 rooms apartment with central heating. Brasov the city is real sombre with lots of apartment buildings where the balcony are closed to get more room inside the apartment but from the outside all the buildings do not look neatly. It feels very good that you know that the peoples are very religious and they thank God for all they receive. We people out of the west European world, we can take an example of them.

All this was a big experience and it left on us a big impression and I recommended other people to go one time with Wouko to Romania. In Romania you see that there is still real poverty in Europe and that inside a radius off 2000 kilometres. I am thankful that I have had the opportunity to go to Romania.

With kind regards,
Willem Dijkman

More families
During the last journey to Romania, Wouko have had a conversation with the pastor of the church at Brasov. There we decided to support another six families with a food-parcel.
Totally we now have eighteen families to support. The last families do not get every month a food-parcel (but every two months) because they also get a food-parcel from another organisation.
Also the pastor told us that there is a big financial need, because of the heavy wintertime. Often there is no warm water and no heating for a few days. The people are having problems to pay the gas and elektra bills. The believe in God is all they have in there poverty.

Education
Thanks to financial supporting the oldest daughter of the Panoski family, Adina, can study as a chemic analyzer. She is the people who made this happen very thankful. She lives together with 10 brothers and sisters and her parents in a little apartment in Brasov.

Greenhouses
So as we could read in Willem's journey report, Nico Stroica from Galsa had the opportunity, thanks to the foundation, to built three greenhouses for his horticulture product. Because of this his little one-mans company will get a larger harvest this year and in the next. Looking at the picture we seen Nico with his eighty years old saw machine. He rebuilds this saw and used an old tractor motor to drive it on. Infact this is a very dangerous. He is busy to saw wood to sell these in the wintertime. Nico is hardworking man and a good father for his children.

Youth group
There are plans made, for the summer holidays, to take a youth group to Romania.
These youth are celgroup leaders from our church. They want together with the oldest child of the supported family's (+ 12 children) to spend one week in an old farm out of Brasov. They will live there in a primitive way. They will have a spiritual relationship when they all play sport and games together, do some work at the farm, and having bible education and when they are singing and testifying together.

We want to thank God that we have the opportunity to help people in Romania and this thanks to your financial help.
May God bless you.