Humanitarian Aide... A helping hand to the hurting

We wanted to share with you about a little known aspect of our foundation, the ministry of humanitarian aide. On average, there are 10 applicants per month, some are returning and others are passing through the town, or need help once. There are families and individuals, most who were once in the state orphanage system. Most of them have children and very few are able to provide the safety and care that they need.

The program aims to prevent abandonment of the children by their parents in a variety of ways: material aid - clothes, food, basic personal hygiene products and house keeping needs; financial aid - small amounts of money needed to pay the bills, purchase medicine or basic household goods; counseling on the administration of money, couple relationships, finding and keeping a job or a place to live. We try to help them to solve problems better and faster and to learn to manage and live independent lives in connection with the community.

Here are a few of their stories:


Antonia is now 5 years old and she lives with her mother and maternal grandmother in social housing, from City Hall. Her mother has health problems and cannot work, and all three live from her disease pension.
Her biological father is in prison, and legally he is not her father as he did not recognize her as his child. At the beginning of March her brother, Darius, was born.
His father divorced their mother and went abroad, before he was born. Antonia goes to kindergarten, she is obedient and she loves to draw and play outside with children. She loves her brother very much and she wants to keep him in her arms all the time.


Jozsef and Gyöngy grew up in an orphanage and when they decided to get married she already had a child. Their family has a social housing but just for a determined period, because they haven’t paid the minimum costs to live there. Their daughter, Imola, is 3 years old and the parents take her every day to the preschool of a Foundation, and during that time they seek employment. Gyongy also has another daughter, Erika, who is 13 years old and likes school very much, but she goes to school with breaks of several months, depending the family’s living situation.


Levente and Cristina also grew up in foster care in Mures county. Levente doesn’t hear and is very ill with TB which he inherited from parents and because of this he can not work. Cristina has given him moral and financial support when he had operations and was in the hospital for months.
They decided to get married when they found out that they were having a baby. Alexandra came into this world in July 2007. They were happy about this, but they always had trouble with debts which they accumulated trying to pay bills and they were threatened to be thrown out of social housing. Today, Cristina is working in Italy for several months and they only get reports from family to know that she is okay. Alexandra is cared for by her father with the help of friends from the neighborhood and an aunt. There are still many costs that they need help with.


Emese is 28 years old and when she was 14 her mother took her back home from foster care. She says today, she was brought back into the bad story when she could have had a better one in foster care… going to school, being qualified for a job and doing something better with her life. She felt that by coming “home” her story was over. Now she is living with her mother and her two girls in social housing. She was fooled by an employer to sign her resignation, so she would not receive her unemployment benefits.
Her daughter, Renata, is 5 years old. She is going to kindergarten and the father, although he lives only a street away, does not want to know anything about her. Her little sister, Noemi, is 2 years old, and her father will soon come back from Germany, because he didn`t manage to find a stable job.



In April, Cristian will be two years old. His parents met in an orphanage. They got married and they wanted very much to have him. Now, his father is unemployed and his mother, Cristina, will look for a job, while Cristi will go to day care.

With our small humanitarian aide budget each month we are doing what we can to help these families stay together and keep their children. Please pray that we will be able to continue to reach out to those that need help and that they will come to know that God loves them through the love and support that they receive here.