Moldova

Moldova YFC – Update July 2023

We discussed with Vitalie and our coordinators about ideas. We have two ideas: 1. To buy 50 schoolbags and we will give them to the churches and encourage them to fill it and to donate to the most needed children from the day centre! 2. To buy many pencils, notebooks and other staff for the school needs. During the school time (9 months) the church workers will give to the children when they will need it!

1. Photo of YFC family
2. Olya in the centre with 2 others involved in the Children at Risk Project.

Moldova information and prayer. January 2019.

Thanks for the mission Sunday collections. Providing €920 to go to the Family Fund in 2018

€340 went towards first Skin graft surgery for 12 year old Sorin. Soren’s recovery after surgery was very painful and upsetting for her and her family. They have decided to delay the next surgery until later this year in the hope Sorin will recover well and want to continue.

€340. For surgery to Ioni’s ankle. Ioni can now walk properly and is looking forward to football. Just before Christmas he told Olya one of our contacts at YFC that you have changed his life.

€240. Went towards winter shoes for 120 children
This included 13pairs of boots for disabled children.
The total bill for shoes this winter was €2600 Olya did a great job of getting the boots and shoes at a discount prices from the market trader she went to last winter.
These boots are in great need for the children as there is a lot of snow In the outlying villages.

Someone from one of the village churches told of the sad story of a 60 year old man and his 16 year old son who are extremely poor. The people of the church helped them find a rundown house and the father and son have been working to make it habitable, unfortunately this place doesn’t have a stove / fireplace/ chimney and they were freezing in the -10 nighttime temperatures.
Our friends at YFC have had a meeting about this and they have got a team together to build said fireplace.

We continue throughout 2019 in aiding the Family Fund over this difficult time winter time with food packages.

Remember these people in your prayers.

APRIL 2019

This is Maria with her brother Sasha who is severely disabled with cerebral palsy. They are 19 year old twins, for the past 4 years since Maria left school she has been her brother’s carer as their mother has to work each day for them to survive. A language tutor programme has been set up for Maria so that she can attend at night when her mother is home to look after Sasha. Maria wants to study and her hope is to become a translator.

This is the same boy Ioani that had the surgery to this ankle last year, although he can now walk his condition is not as hopes. After such a long time without surgery Ioni now has one leg shorter and that foot smaller than the other. He will need further surgery in the future to correct this.

This building with the tin roof is Ioani's family home and is in an awful condition

July 2021
Good afternoon, dear church, we want to thank you for your regular involvement in the lives of the beneficiaries of our organization. Ion, whom you have touched last times, is now preparing for the winter, they made him a heating stove, filled the floor with concrete, plastered the walls and plan to install windows. The guy himself, despite his limited abilities, understands that it is necessary to prepare firewood. he walks into the forest and carries one log of firewood. the church undertakes to cut the wood and provide warm food not only during the summer, but also in the winter.
In the project, children at risk have many different activities - summer camps, a children's festival. The first time we are trying to organize a joint event with children from different centers for fun general educational activities.
We got the first such experience in the south of the country on June 24-25 for 165 children: despite the weather conditions - pouring rain, we managed to give children joyful moments and a fun day in their lazy holidays. next events will be on July 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 for 17 day centers.

November 2021

Hello dear friends and church. Today we had a new hard working day in Ion's house. Now you can see how it looks. This is your big help. So this winter Ion will have different that others

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March 2022

Good news about the children getting the shoes. The video is of the shoes at only one of the day centres. There were again around 100 pairs of shoes bought for the children. Some are from a second hand supplier to keep the cost down.
Olya also said that she had wanted to visit Sylvia’s family (Sylvia is a young girl with cerebral palsey ) but was unable to because of Covid. The operation was due in Kviv Ukraine but once again postponed because of the war. She and her family need our prayers.

September 2022

We would like to help 30 children who need schoolbags and staf for the shool. This is plan pla the money which we have. During the 5 months we helped refugies by: hosting them, preparing worm food for the people from the border (we had a period of time when the people waited for more then 24 ours on the border to enter in Moldova), by the serving in border people (cristian people have an special tent in the border where we help people who come in Moldova by information, spirtual support, by food), also we was involved in transportation people from the border to Chisinay (Kishanell – Capital where the YFC office is)

Also we churcies who work with refugies who stay in Moldova - helping them with food packages, to find work place and integrate in our cristian society

It’s good to be able to announce that the funds from JIBC last time helped to get the school bags and “stuff” for the YFC children for school 🙏🙏

November 2022

Christina is now really well. Soon she will go to Bucuresti to check tumour isn't re- growing. She is really better than before. She starts work and has plans to study, she wants to be a hairdresser.
Children from the day centres, JIBC are helping. Some are from very poor families who have lice problems.
We washed the house and all the things. We bought hygiene bags, Iwill buy medicine for all the family.

We have 5 different families who have health problems. We are working with 2 of them. At the doctors we paid for the visit and some analysis. It is some problems with pressure. Now we wait for the results and another visit to the doctor. Both situations are worse because the parents have big problems with alcohol

Moldova Update January 2023
Hello my dear friend!!!! This December is blessed one - we could help 16 families.
For one family with 6 children we bought hitting woods and special food for the baby twins and another 15 families: we help a church to prepare Christmas party for the 15 children with disabilities and for their parents. we prepare the good program, food packages and some sweets for the children.
Soon I will send you some pictures from this event.
In November we helped 3 families - we helped to bay some medicines for the children!
Thanks to the help of your family and your church - we were able to provide extensive assistance to families in dire need thus children and their parents felt what is the Real Love of Christ in this pre-Christmas magical time!!!!
I think after new year we will check the situation in our families. It can be necessary to by some woods or something else for the fitting in houses. The hitting is the most biggest problem now in Moldova.