We became involved in the village of Poiana in the year 2000 through Cornel & Rodica Ene who were starting a church there. At that time Poiana was a rural village of about 400 houses, many of them built with home-made mud bricks. The community relied on the land for employment and there was little work available to them in the winter months. We helped support the Ene’s to provide materials for their children’s clubs. In 2006 Alex & Heather Chalmers, a Scottish couple who had been working with street children in Constanta, moved to Poiana to become pastors of the growing church. Since then we have been providing personal support to them as well as continuing to contribute to the children’s clubs. A team from the church visited Poiana in 2012 to help with some practical work that needed doing in and around the church building as well as spending time with the children in their clubs. For several years now we have provided funding for the purchase of winter wood for the wood burning stoves of villagers who are not able to afford it and for a Christmas meal and a gift of provisions for church families and other needy villagers.

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