20 volunteers from Wesley College, Dublin, work for 8 days on Habitat for Humanity Beius worksite from Leleşti village, Bihor county.
Volunteers chose to spend a week and a half of their own summer vacation to volunteer in Romania, helping a needy family. They are 17 students and three teachers from Wesley College in Ireland, a school that works together with Habitat for Humanity Beius for nine years.
Monday volunteers were present on site the first time.They will work here for eight and they proposed to build a house for Tomoroga family. On site they meet Tomoroga family, Habitat team and mayor of Bunteşti, Mr. Degău Sorin, who has welcomed the volunteers.The mayor already supported Habitat effort involving the local community to help family jumped in construction materials and labor.
“I’m very excited to see so many young volunteers in our backyard! I appreciate their effort and work that came alongside us, thank them and pray for them. They are a true model for our children and would be better if we, Romanians, we follow their example to help more each other. ” says Lavinia Tomoroga, the beneficiary household.
Old house where Nicholas and Lavinia Tomoroagă live with their two children, Denis (3 years) and Giulia (2 years) and Vasile and Iuliana, Lavinia’s parents, is composed of two rooms and a corridor. In a 20m2 room live Nicholas and Lavinia with the two children. In the other room, much smaller, which also serves the kitchen, live Lavinia’s. They do not have a bathroom in the house and use one latrine in the garden.
Nicolae works at a bread factory as a worker and he dream to provide better living conditions for his family. He decided to put some money 
aside to be able to make a room annex to the present house and maybe sometime a bathroom. But wages are low, money is hard to collect, so only managed to put the cheapest and thinnest polystyrene on the walls of the old house so would no longer be cold in winter.
“We were very lucky with Aurora which was the beneficiary of the Habitat House Easter this year. Mr. Mayor worked on that house and he knows our living conditions. So he brought the people from Habitat to see how hard we live. Now, finally, after a few days, even if it seems that we are still in a dream, my children will have a better house, “says Vasile, the father of Lavinia.
Until Tuesday, June 29, the 20 volunteers will complete the house and then will be the dedication ceremony.
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