1. Youth & Community Centre - see more information

2. Future Changed - Iasi, Romania

Link Romania has a team in Iasi called Future Changed and they are concerned with Education and Social Care.  There are two main projects - The Kindergarten and our social work in Dallas Shanty Town.

Attendance at our kindergarten can mean a 70% reduction in school drop outs when the children eventually join with others at mainstream school. THey have learnt to part of a team, to play and share and live with others and this means they are not the natural outcasts when they join state school.

The second part of the project is to work in Dallas Shanty Town with families that live in appalling conditions, mostly in one room and have very little hope and opportunity.  By working with these families - most of whose children attend the kindergarten - we help them break the cycle of poverty.

NEED - To maintain the project the Future Changed and keep it running so more children can benefit from this facility - Target £20,000

Appeal 3 - Farm of Hope - Iasi, Romania

When children become 10 they have to leave the orphanage where they have grown up.  Without families and social skills they end up homeless and sleeping rough.  We support the Farm of Hope which takes in these boys and gives them a safe, warm place to stay with 3 meals a day, training in arable and animal faming, preparation to move on and become independent.  It also offers a supportive framework for them to go out and work in other trades whilst still retaining the support of the Farm.   

NEED: To finish off the walkways £2,500                                                                                                                                                             D 

Appeal 4 - Inn of Love, Dancu, Moldova

In Dancu village there is widespread poverty with many people living below the poverty line.  In some rural areas, unemployment is over 80% and young people leave in search of work.  This has left many old people without someone to care for them, and the state can do little to help. Many pensioners lost their life savings when Moldova left the Soviet Union in 1991 and the currency collapsed.

Link Romania is supporting the Inn of Love which provides nutritious meals twice a week.  They bring 20 people to the church for a meal and visit 20 others whoare housebound.  Some of the people they visit haven't eaten in the previous 2 or 3 days, others won't have seen anyone since the last time they were visite and are desperately lonely.  The first time we visited many people were in tears at this expression of Gods love to them.