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Lupeni Children's Home
The Lupeni Children's Home, tucked away in a small city in the Carpathian Mountains, is a haven of stability and hope for 22 children. Once a thriving coal mining region, this area recently reported a 45% unemployment rate and widespread poverty. After the fall of communism in 1989 local Christians began to help their suffering neighbors by reaching out to the elderly, feeding meals to the needy, assisting the very poorest of families, placing children in foster homes, and founding an orphanage.
Through funding from an organization in the United Kingdom the Lupeni Children's Home was completed in 1999. Immediately four children were brought in and others soon followed. The orphanage leadership, realizing that Christ is the most important gift that can be given, have organized daily prayer times for the children and encourage them to attend church on Sunday. Integrating the children into the community is important, and families in the church help accomplish this by taking children into their homes during school holidays.
Social workers, who run the orphanage on a day by day basis, work on developing individualized plans for each child in order to help them re-integrate back into society. The children are taught skills which will help them in the 'real' world. Once the children leave the orphanage, the leaders try to find them a job and a place to live.
Due to a decreasing support base from the UK, it is an urgent need for the orphanage to find funding from another source. Kidstown is honored to partner with this fine orphanage in caring for 22 abandoned children. You also can be part of a team which, through Kidstown, gives vitally-needed help to the children in the Lupeni home. Will you consider sponsoring a child? For a little more than $1 a day, you can make a difference in the life of a child for a very long time.
