Summer activities at Speranta Colonia, Petrosani

Adina and her team have once again planned many exciting activities for the local children during the summer holidays, both in the centre and outside enjoying the beautiful Romanian countryside. We added a few photographs with some activities from the “Summer Club” with the children...

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Stella’s work experiance

Hi, I’m Stella, I am in Year 10 (My first year of GCSEs) and this week I have been doing my work placement at the Humanity At Heart charity shop.It has been really lovely to come to the shop again as I have been here many times before, since my Aunt is the Manager – though this time as part of the...

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House Of Roses

I’ve just had a lovely update from Linda, telling us how things are going for the 4 youngsters living at the House Of Roses:Activities in House of Roses are based around trying to build up the residents confidence and self esteem. The aim is to encourage independence and for them to live as...

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Winter has arrived in Romania

It’s getting cold in Romania now.  Julian, from our partner Providenta Divina, has been busy distributing wood to our elderly people.  Thanks to those who gave us donations, we were able to provide all the funding for this much needed fuel to help people heat their homes.

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Update from Petrosani

I’ve just had an update from Adina, the Centre Manager at Hope for the Colony Community Centre in Petrosani. There are 2 new clubs just started at the Centre – a Maths club, and a teenage youth club. The youth club in particular is an excellent response by the Centre staff to a real...

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Recent visit to Romania

I have just returned from a week in Romania, assessing our projects and looking at future funding possibilities.  I flew from Luton to Timisoara with Dave Bennett (a Trustee of our Romanian partner organisation, REACH), and then drove 5 hours to Petrosani. It is good to be able to...

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Casa Trandafirilor – House of Roses

Here’s a quick update from Linda Barnes of RAKE on the House of Roses in Birlad.”There isn’t a lot to report from Birlad but things are going well. The “kids” have just got back from 2 weeks in camp. Myosotis runs a camp each year for children from their day centre and also poor...

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