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The Mission...
Our Volunteers in Mission Team traveled to Romania in Eastern Europe to provide medical care and construction repair to orphanages in the orphanage.
The Problem...
Under the previous Communist Government, Romanians were encouraged to have many children. Now families cannot support so many children. Orphanages were used to at least keep children off the streets. However, they are heavily overcrowded. With very little money available for food, let alone upkeep, these orphanages are in desperate need of help. The government can pay $.85 per child, per day for food. That consists of boiled cabbage and watered-down, mashed potatoes...that's it. Romania has the highest ratio of AIDS-babies, so the medical team has it's work cut out for it.
The Solution?
We don't expect to be able to solve any big problems in 10 days, but we do hope to raise awareness in the U.S. We will be updating this web site, hopefully, daily to keep you aware of what we see...
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