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The Salard Community


A Smiles Foundation Project

In Romania

Dr ClaudiaIn June 2007, Dr Claudia Micula – The Smiles Foundation’s doctor to the Family Care Project – was visiting a sponsored family in the city of Oradea when approached by a desperate lady asking for help. The lady’s sister – married with 12 children – had just experienced the horror of a house fire that destroyed the house and claimed the life of their 5 year old daughter. The family were now divided, with ones and twos staying in various homes with friends and the parents with some of the children sleeping on a mattress in the field beside their burnt out house.

The Smiles Foundation visited the scene and family, and were shocked at what they saw. A small Community of 19 families living in horrendously poor conditions and whilst it was reasonable to say that the family who's house had burnt down were worse off - it was a case of 'only just'! Some of the housing in this community was as bad as our Chief Executive had seen in 17 years of visiting Romania.

The Smiles Foundation immediately committed to building a new house for the family that had first brought us to the community.

The mayor's representative saw our horror at the conditions and asked if there was any way we could help more families.

These situations face the Smiles Team daily but our CEO felt in this case We Should, We Could and We Would do something!


Finished house Within 6 weeks of seeing the need, Smiles had built a new home for the family who can now begin to rebuild their lives after the tragedy of the house fire and loss of their child.

At a cost of £2,670 / $5,340 Smiles set to with providing materials and financing labour costs to build this small but effective home. How well it looks and how delighted and thankful are the family who have been re-housed. Thank you to those who have supported the building costs. Now we hope to get sponsors for the families to ensure we can continue supporting them back to total independence.


We have since added families from Salard to our Family Care project as sponsors have become available. We have started a housing project and in the first year built 3 new homes for families with special needs in and around the community. We launched the Container Challenge and have purchased, renovated and fitted out five 20ft containers which are now better homes than they have ever known, for the worse case families in Salard.

We want do to more and will do more as sponsors and support becomes available. 
If you can help, please sponsor a family now or contribute what you can each month towards the Medical or Housing support we are now offering the Salard Community.
 

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