Newsletter June 2005

Haghel family | Lakatush family | Samuël Boroghina | Fundatia Clinica Pro Vita (fight against abortion) | Nico and Silvia Stoica | Summercamp 2005

The Sunday that we were there, after church we had a lunch together with the old people in the church. Many times they are alone and depending on there self. The young people in the church would like to do something for the older people who have difficult times. They came on the idea to give them once in the month a warm meal. During this they can speak with each other and built relation between the two genaration. The meal is served in a room under in the church to 70 or 80 people.
We find this a good initiative and our committee made a decision to give every month financial support for one year. This time the meal consists of potato with vegetables and meat. After that there was café and cake. We saw how the young people take care of the older people and how they love these moments. (you can see the photo’s on the website, Newsletter February 2005)

With one of our contacts in Brasov, Dimitru Marcu, we do some shopping to prepare the food parcels and we delivered them in the aftenoon. Our group was to big and we split the group in 2 small groups and than we went to the poor families to give them a food parcel and we could see how they life. To see how some families life was for some of us sometimes difficult to accept and in the evening we talked about what we’ve seen and we prayed for the families.

Haghel family
We visit the Haghel family and here all the boys in this family have muscle illness. 4 Boys can not walk anymore and they sitting in a wheelchair. When the boys go to school, father Haghel must carry every son into the bus. When they are at home they are depended of the father. Every time we visit the family we see how there health is going down and they know that they will be not older than twenty years. Still you can see the gratitude for all the foundation did and still doing for this family.

Lakatush
We also visit the family Lakatush. They life in a barn, earlier it was used for the sheep’s, behind a factory in the outskirts of Brasov. You can’t walk right up standing. No gas or electricity or a place to wash your self and no toilet. There is no gas range to cook and so they use a wood stove. On the wood stove there is something boiling in a little pan. They can live here and for compensation the father has to watch over the factory ground so that no thief or other wanderers walk around the factory. We support this family with a monthly foodparcel.

Samuël Boroghina
With the four year old son Samuël Boroghina it is reasonable good. The skin that had been burn is slowly healing and we gave the parents vaseline for the wounds. We found a drugstore were you can buy vaseline, and so next time we will buy it here in Brasov

Fundatia Clinica Pro Vita
We made a visit at a clinic of Iosif Belea. He is director (theologian, psychologist) of the Fundatia Clinica Pro Vita. A clinic for woman in the age of 13 till 50 year who are thinking about an abortion.
They can get a free test to see if they are pregnant. They also can get counselling and they will be explain what the emotional damage is when they decide for abortion or to give there child to a house for orphans. There will show some photos and a video film.

Romania is number one on the list with the most abortions in Europe in one year. An average of 1 million abortions in one year in a land of 22 million people. Abortion is allowed in this country until 6 months of pregnancy. They also spoke about anti-conception but the older christian people don’t want to hear about this item. The younger christian people do want to know.
We had a tour through the clinic and they explained their work in the clinic and we watched a film about the holocaust in the Second World War in comparison with abortion. Since a short time they have a echoscope device and now they look for a doctor who can work here in the clinic. The clinic and counselling office is really one big apartment in a flat building where you can find more of these little agencies. this apartment is hired by Iosif Belea. At this moment the clinic receives a little budget from the state. They have a debt to pay the rent of the apartment and some of us give Iosif generous some money to pay the rent. He appreciates this very much and he asked Wouko if it is possible that his foundation can support the work in the clinic. Wouko told him that he first must talk with the other members of the foundation in Holland.

Nico and Silvia Stoica
In the last newsletter you could read about Nico. Last year he went to Spain to work after his harvest was failed and there was no money to live. The work he did in Spain was only for a short time and he didn’t know that before, so he tried to go back to his wife and children but he had no money for the journey. In the mean time he lost 20 kilo’s of his weight. The foundation made it possible to bring Nico back to his family. In March Wouko and Piet went to Nico and Silvia to see what we can do for this family and they made a plan. During the last journey in April we were on our way home and we visit the family Stoica. Nico received some money from the foundation to buy vegetables seed and little fruit trees. So when we came to his place he showed us the vegetables in his handmade greenhouses and the fruit trees. It was nice to see that they were crowning good and this summer he will have a good harvest. He also bought some chicken and they already had little chicken. When he has enough chickens they can sell the eggs. For his greenhouses he bought new plastic to replace the damaged parts. For the eldest daughter the foundation pays here school education and she do it very well on school.

Summercamp 2005
Also this year there will be a summercamp in Romania. Every year it is a big success for the youth in the ages of 16/17 years. On our website you can read the report of the last summercamp 2004 of Anita and Marinde.