Marie and Lucia September 2001

When we met Marie (78)and Lucia (73) in March 2001 they had no food or heat. Lucia was out working every day cleaning houses and the people she worked for gave her some food to bring home each day. We have been able to assist by giving them money each month and this has helped them to have good food.

We have also been able to supply them with wood and this will be the first winter in twenty years they will have heat (the temperature fell to -19°C last winter). We also bought them new blankets, sheets and of course what all Romanians want, shoes, everyone wants shoes. So we got them good warm sensible boots. The pensions of any elderly person in Romania could never stretch to items such as wood or shoes.