Upgrade projects in Casa Harului (where camps are held) £14,000
Yearly personal support to Benni & Maria Medrea £1,000
Salaries for staff at Bethlehem Centre £1,500
Support for Romanian Leaders £1,900
To pay for children and Romanian leaders to attend camp £5,000
To pay for evaluation weekend camp for Romanian leaders £800
To support weekly work with village children £1,000
To support the work of the Bethlehem Centre £4,400
To pay for the sponsorship for 3 children and help to families £2,540
Donation to Special Needs School for crafts, games etc £130
In Dec 2010, a team of 5 volunteers went to Hunedoara to help with the distribution of almost 1500 Christmas shoeboxes generously donated by many people to Vision Romania’s shoebox appeal. In their letter to us where the children were expressing their joy at receiving their gifts, one of the Romanian leaders said, “There were about 30 children who had never received a shoebox before and therefore had never had a Christmas present before because there may be many brothers and sisters in the family and their parents couldn’t afford to give them any presents. So it was an extremely special and exciting thing for them to receive their first ever Christmas present.”
Tony Marks & Iain Sutherland will be doing a sponsored 3500 mile drive over 6 days – from Dundee to Monaco and back on the 8th to the 13th of May 2010. The drive is based on the 1969 film ‘Monte Carlo or Bust’ and involves 30 cars (29 of them leaving from London!). Each car will be raising money for charity and Tony & Iain have entered a ‘Vision Romania’ car to raise money for Vision Romania and to increase awareness of the charity. Last year the team raised over £5,000 for Alzheimer’s Scotland’s new centre in Dundee. Tony & Iain would welcome contributions whether small or large to their Vision Romania fundraising page at www.justgiving.com/montecarlo2011 They are funding the trip themselves so all the money raised will go directly to Vision Romania.
In July 2011 a Vision Romania team will go to Casa Harului and will sponsor 55 children, (8 to 12 years old) and 17 Romanian Leaders to attend the summer camp. In 2011 a second camp for children with disabilities will be fully funded by your generous donations. Funding for the camps and other projects is raised by Vision Romania through donations directly to the Charity and by various sponsored and fund raising events (the Ball, Pub Quizzes, Sponsored Cycle, New Year Dook, etc).
Vision Romania also directly supports 3 families as part of a feeding programme for children of needy families through the Bethlehem Centre in Hunedoara. The centre provides after school clubs, showers for the kids and laundering facilities for their clothing (many have only one change of clothes), skills training for adults to help them gain employment and general family assistance.
You can donate to Vision Romania at www.justgiving.com./visionromania.
If you would like to help by providing shoe boxes, sponsoring food for children or supporting Vision Romania in fundraising or in other ways, please contact any member of the team for further information.
We can be contacted at info@visionromania.org or please call:
Heather Dick-Reid 07837 800216, Margaret Leiper 07742 732592, Fiona Bett 07801 233679 or Jim Leiper 07740 937000
