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Real Life Story — The Poor and Destitute of Romania— Marius' sick father was unable to work, and his mother worked an average of 14 hours a day to earn a mere US$ 80 per month...(click here for full story) To donate to this Family Care Foundation Project, please note Project NAME and then click here. Education Our mandate includes strengthening the educational infrastructure through providing educational materials, and bettering the physical conditions of the institutions themselves.
Some of our successfully completed projects include:
Sponsorship program Educational excursion
Visiting the historical Romanian site Sinaia, Peles castle, and going up Cota 1400, makes this trip an unforgettable event. Educational Summer Camp
This is usually the first time any of the children have ever been to the Black Sea, so this in itself makes it very special to them.
Besides fun time on the beach, the children enjoy a variety of educational programs complete with music, games, skits and surprises! Fighting asthma The project includes the following steps:
Strabismus
Noi Orizonturi Familia volunteers initiated this medical program with the help of sponsors. Children from Placement Centers who are diagnosed with strabismus benefit from the program; getting free check-ups, treatment and eventual operations according to the severity of the strabismus, with wonderful results obtained. Renovation of Older Institutions Renovating the Logoped Centers
We organized a Noi Orizonturi Familia fund-raiser, and with the proceeds we were able to fully modernize three of these centers, and help with some educational material for others.
Oncopediatry section from Oncology Institute in
Bucharest (I.O.B.)
With funds raised by a Noi Orizonturi Familia fund-raiser, we renovated 4 rooms, including replacing beds, mattresses and bed-side tables, painting the walls and putting in new linoleum, installing new thermopan doors and re-doing the sanitary facilities.
We are now working on securing needed medical equipment.
Visiting the elderly Our program for the elderly was initiated with the slogan “They could be our grandparents”.
Our undertaking included:
Maternal assistance
Most of them are women that struggle themselves with difficulties in life, but who nevertheless were willing to open their lives to the children of others, caring and loving them as if they were their own. It was an unforgettable experience for these precious people and a touch of God’s love for them. Donating goods to underprivileged families and children
Here with the help of local sponsors we were able to provide the centers with basic needs, donating food, school materials, clothes, shoes, cosmetics, organizing shows for the children and offering presents.
The impact of gestures of this sort on the children is amazing. Just after we started interacting with these kids, one of their teachers exclaimed, “It’s incredible to see how open they are now, how much more communicative they are, and their faces are just beaming!”
The Center Sf. Maria was without carpet, while housing 150 abandoned orphans. Here we are delivering carpet, plus presents to the kids.
From time-to-time, we take these kids to eat in a restaurant, spending personal time with each one and getting to know them better, plus using the opportunity to teach them good manners.
With the belief that these dear orphan children have real potential, we know that our investment will pay off. When these kids one day leave the orphanage, we hope to have instilled sufficient confidence to help them overcome their difficult backgrounds and become contributing members of society. Whenever there is a need and it is within our power to help, Noi Orizonturi Familia tries to respond with “Yes, we can help”. So when heavy flooding hit Vrancea in east central Romania, our volunteers went to offer assistance to the victims.
We contacted our wonderful friends and local sponsors who generously donated towards this project, a quantity of almost 30 tons of food and supplies being gathered in this way! We organized the transport, delivering personally the items to the needy families who lost so much in the disaster, in this way spending heart to heart time with the ones affected, comforting and encouraging them. It was a heartbreaking experience that taught us so much about life and what really matters!
When Social Security Doesn’t Exist Romania, once amongst the most prosperous and cultured of European countries before being devastated by years of Communist rule, no longer has adequate Social Security to cover the needs of its elderly citizens. Typically, a senior citizen, living alone in a tiny one-room apartment, may receive from US$15-25 monthly, if indeed they receive anything at all. Many elderly simply cannot afford to pay their basic utilities and eat as well. As a result their utilities are often cut off, exacerbating an already tragic situation. The mayor of Bucharest recently asked FCF project Noi Orizonturi Familia to help organize a special function to highlight the plight of the city’s senior citizens.
Volunteers from Noi Orizonturi Familia, with the help of local sponsors, were able to purchase food and other necessities, and organized a family-oriented musical benefit in honor of and to which over 100 of the elderly, from 60 years to 85 years old, attended. At the close of the meeting each elderly person received 2 large bags of donated items. We can all imagine how we would feel if one of these old folks were our grandmother or grandfather. We would naturally be doing all we could to make sure they were well cared for and attended to. As is so often the case in such financially ravaged countries as Romania, a little giving goes a long way, both financially and morally. It is the hope of Noi Orizonturi Familia that they can continue to both inspire and develop long-term sponsorship for the most destitute. Helping Street Children, the Poor and Destitute When we first walked down the tracks of the Bucharest
metro attempting to call out the street children who inhabit the
darkened tunnels, it was like time traveling into one of Charles
Dickens's stories. When these street kids surfaced, they looked
more than scary. Such was the beginning of our Street Children's
ministry in Bucharest.
Two other long-term street kids, Marian (19) and Gina (14) announced to us one day, “We want a new life. Please help us to get out of this situation. I want a regular job,” Marian continued, “I need to have a place for [my wife] Gina” (who is now 6 months pregnant) “and for the baby to be born.” It was so touching. So we approached one of our friends who agreed to give Marian a job, even though at the time he didn't have any legal papers whatsoever, which is not uncommon for these young people who have lived on the streets for years. Another businessman offered to pay their rent until they got on their feet. God bless this man who hired Marian while his paperwork was still being sorted out. And God bless Marian who took up the challenge and after a couple of month was recognized as the best worker in the entire factory. We know that it is possible for these young people
to change and become productive members of society; all they need
is respect, someone who they can trust and an opportunity to do
the right thing. Perhaps not all will succeed but for those who
do it is well worth the effort. Will you help us make this work
possible? Can you help us help these children out of their despair
by bringing some hope and by teaching them to fend for themselves? To donate to this Family Care Foundation Project, please note Project NAME and then click here. |
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