The day started off at home doing admin type stuff, paying bills, bank bits n bobs and the like. Luckily a lot of this is done online nowadays unlike the employment papers which still requires us to drag round 4 different offices every month :-(
We then went to Cobila to the farm where we did some work in the garden, its all growing quickly now the castrovets (small cucumbers) seem to appear by magic overnight the tomatoes are ripening and we are on our second sow of salad. After weeks of rain we are now into the second week of high temperatures and one of the daily tasks is watering the garden and orchard! Luckily we get lots of help from the families in the village. The fruit trees were weeded around and the barrels of water for the garden filled with the pump for use in the evening. We do this to allow the water to reach air temperature before putting it on the plants and prior tothe pump it was all drawn by hand in buckets from the well.
Next stop was a quick visit to the apartment to shower and then pick up Camelia and her mum to do a medical run out to one of the small villages north of us. On the way we visited Roxanna and her mum, one of the families we meet at the Downs Syndrome Centre, they are busy trying to repair their house after the floods, they had over a metre of water and silt through the house and they now have no floors.
Next the medical surgery, this surgery was held in a tiny Pentecostal church and served about twenty people who could not make it into town nor afford the treatment. Blood pressure and sugar levels are monitored and if required an appointment with a doctor arranged. The folks in the village are so grateful for this simple service. The charity supports this work with drugs, paracetamol, aspirin, vitamins, ibuprofen etc. as well as transport and pill counting!
above: Outside the church
The church surgery
Entrance to the Container Village - Dorohoi
After we returned to Dorohoi we visited the “container village” near to the fire station where 80 families made homeless by the recent floods are being housed. The containers are fairly basic, a bit like site offices you might see in building projects. They have a toilet and shower block and an onsite medical facility. When we visited the temperature was still in the low 30’s and to say these units were hot would be an understatement. The children have no play area and many of them have had their heads crudely shaved to keep them cool, clean and free from nits adding a sinister air to the whole area. Some help is coming from the charities in the area and we are planning to go back and do some activities in about a weeks’ time. Above: Entrance to the temporary container housing - Dorohoi
That’s about it for today, time to eat and watch some English television, big thank-you to everyone who makes this happen whether it’s through donation, prayer, gifts cash whatever, noapte bună şi Dumnezeu să binecuvânteze.
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