Good News from Mustard
Seed in August 2007
Often
the news is bad, but in Mustard Seed we are glad we have good news to tell
about opportunities and steady progress on many of our projects in
We
are especially pleased with the success of our Homework Club in the
As
a result five of the older children, now teenagers have achieved high enough
grades to qualify for the vocational high school in the city of
In the Cefa area a significant number of needy pensioners are now
assisted through our Adopt-A-Granny sponsorship scheme. There are many many
pensioners in need of help and sponsorship in other nearby areas, but not in
the Cefa area, which shows the difference we make there.
There is good progress in our work among young people brought up in the
state orphanages and often really damaged mentally and emotionally as a result.
There is superb progress at the boys hostel also at Cefa. While some
young men have not stayed there long, since it opened in October 2005, one
especially has turned his life around and is making excellent use of the
opportunity given to him.
The young women in the sponsored apartments are all doing well and are
now virtually fully independent, Since 2000 when we first became involved, two
have married.
But for us the best news
this year has to be that even though Romania is now in EU, we can still take
aid to those in need without any import duty, as was feared. But now sadly we
do see that the gap between the rich and poor seems even greater.
One result of joining EU has been a huge increase in prices for the
basics of life, food, rent, fuel, medication, etc. in
Yes we are encouraged, really delighted at the progress we see in the
areas where we work. But for every one we help there are many others in need of
help.
For us to continue that help until we are really not needed in Romania
anymore, we do need help with funding – funds to take 3 more aid lorries to
Eastern Europe this year, funds to build a home where homeless pensioners can live,
funds to continue to run the various projects and programmes we have begun. As
our motto says: