Try and picture in your head: an old adobe house with a dirt trodden floor where chickens are pecking around for crumbs that fall from their table. An old bed that is a bundle of straw covered in a mouse nibbled sponge sheet instead of a mattress. Doors and windows doing more to keep out the animals, rather than the wind and cold of a winter’s day.
This is not something that you think of when someone asks you to imagine a home in the European Union. But this is the reality for the Dumse family every single day as this is a description of their home.
Elisabeta Dumse, her husband Dorin and their twin sons Andrei and Dorel feel the cold winters even before going outside.
Elisabeta grew up in an orphanage after being abandoned at birth. Beaten and abused, life has never been easy. Leaving the orphanage at 18 years old, she spent some time on the streets before meeting a young family who took care of her and helped her find a job.
With a little money carefully put aside, they have managed to buy some construction materials. With the help of the local church and some good willed people, they have also been able to pour a foundation on which they tried to build. However due to a lack of money they were unable to make much progress.
Hearing about Habitat’s work on Voice of the Gospel Radio about Habitat, Elisabeta immediately thought that they could maybe benefit from Habitat’s help. So with courage she applied at the Habitat office.
Habitat for Humanity Beius recently selected the Dumse family to be the beneficiaries of the Easter House 2015 and now Elisabeta is looking forward to seeing her lifelong dream being fulfilled: to have a good home where she can offer her children a decent live, like the one she never had.
Since 2000, Habitat for Humanity Beiuş has annually been helping at least one needy family to live in safe, healthy and decent conditions in time for Easter. Romanian and international volunteers build together with the home beneficiaries up until Easter week when the home is inaugurated on Maundy Thursday or Good Friday.
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Jesus Christ taught us that it is a great joy to give and we all know how it is to give a gift, especially at Easter. Now you have the chance to have joy as large as a house, by getting involved and helping Elisabeta and her family change their lives radically as a result or your “sacrifice”. They will live in a decent house because you of your involvement in the most ‘concrete’ way possible!
– Donate towards this annual successful project.
– Tithe to HFH Beius and help another family fulfil a dream, in time for Easter.
– Donate construction materials or tools for the building of homes.
– Participate as a volunteer or organize a team building together with Habitat.
– Promote the Easter House event amongst your friends and ask them to get involved as well.
– Write about this project on your website, on your blog, post on your social networks. Share this post.
– Pray for the success of the event and for the future of Elisabeta, Dorin, Andrei and Dorel
– Contact us at doneaza[at]habitatbeius[dot]ro and let’s talk about how you can get involved!
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