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Now Accepting Donations for the Abandoned Children of Romania

OKâ€¦ we’ve finally launched a website for Archway, Inc. and Fundatia Archway Romania. And now? We need you. We need you to spread the word about the horrible conditions in which these abandoned children of Romania live.

We need you to spread the word that we are now â€“ finally â€“ accepting donations online via our new website so that we can help these abandoned children of Romania. I’d like to start a “bucket brigade” of sorts… where I send out links to our Donations page and to our campaigns and those of you on the receiving end do the same… you then send out the link to your friends and family… and we just keep the momentum going. We plan to post on Facebook and Twitter, but while we’re setting up our Facebook page and our Twitter page, we need your help. Please… post this page on your Facebook pages and tweet to the highest mountain that there are abandoned children living in the streets and gutters of Romania… and they need our help. And, as such, I need your help. I need to raise the funds that will help these most unfortunate children. It’s November and, here in Connecticut, the last few leaves are clinging to the trees and the weather is getting colder by the day. But we’re fortunate. We have walls and roofs that separate us from the elements. We sleep in cozy beds with warm blankets. We have running water and we hop into a warm shower every day. We have food in our refrigerators and we can cook on our stove tops. Not so for our Archway kids. They live in the streets and gutters of Bucharest and they do whatever they have to do to stay alive. Please help me to help these kids to stay alive.

We are in desperate need of obtaining donations into our General Fund. But in addition, we also need to conduct a feasibility study in order to build an addition onto our house in Romania, Casa Noastra. We’ve got two campaigns running simultaneously and we’d be thrilled if you’d consider aÂ donation… you can select the campaign and you can select the amount… choose from several buttons (my website designer told me that they’re called “radio buttons” â€“ OKâ€¦ if she says so… ) or you can enter a specific amount by selecting “other” and entering a specific amount.

Meanwhile, please allow me to share with you a story about Lenuta and her plight. I hope that Lenuta’s story will cause you to appreciate why we do what we do to help Lenuta and others like her.

Lenuta and her husband lived in a metal shipping container with their two young children when I was introduced to them. She was funny and optimistic and considered their homelessness to be a temporary bump in the road. That was 16 years ago… and her oldest daughter, Claudia, is now married and living in another city. Lenuta hasÂ several children â€“ youâ€™d have to ask Gica or Gabi how many because Iâ€™ve lost count. The family has bounced around Bucharest… a lot. But each time that we try to secure a little apartment for them, they get kicked out. They are Gypsy (Roma), so when one individual has a place, everyone comes to visit and the landlords get nervous.

Over the years, weâ€™ve taken care of Lenuta and her husband and children, helped them move into various abandoned buildings, given them food and blankets and clothing, and taken them to the hospital when necessary. Roma and homeless are not allowed into hospitals unless we pay for them and bring them food and supplies, hence one of many reasons why we need donations. Lenutaâ€™s husband recently started hanging around with a bad crowd doing drugs and fooling around with women. Lenuta kicked him out only to take him back when he promised to be good. By then, however, he had contracted HIV… which he then gave to Lenuta. She has lost three brothers taken by this insidious disease and weâ€™ve buried them all for her. Weâ€™ll keep her healthy for as long as we can but there is no medicine available and sheâ€™s living in an abandoned building.

Lenuta’s storyÂ is the grim reality of so many lives in Romania but it still remains a dark secret to most of the world. Weâ€™ve got to get the word out about the inhumanity of the government and the poverty of these people whose only sin was being born poor and/or Roma.

Please make a donation today.

Love and peace,

Sue

Susan Booth
Archway, Inc. /Â Fundatia Archway Romania
Improving the quality of life of children living in the streets and sewers of Bucharest, Romania since 1999

Donate Save a Child

61% funded

With the funds raised, Archway Romania will have resources to help children, especially those from vulnerable families, benefit from integrated community services: benefit from the treatments they need, grow up with their families, grow harmoniously without violence and enjoy childhood. According to Eurostat data in 2013, more than 40% of Romania’s population, or more than 49% of the Romanian children’s population, were at risk of living in poverty. Approximately 300,000 children in Romania are outside the education system, over 60,000 children are separated from their families, and about 10% of pregnancies are recorded in adolescents. The reasons are complex, interdependent and continue to be passed on from one generation to the next. Low access to health, social and education services, plus limited knowledge of rights and opportunities, lead to social exclusion of vulnerable families and their children. The economic crisis has affected vulnerable families through job losses and reduced incomes from work in the country or abroad. The crisis has also affected the capacity of social protection, health and education systems to meet the multiple needs of vulnerable children and families. The most vulnerable children are those in poor families, Roma communities, and children with disabilities.

General Fund

ARCHWAY Romania needs donations to keep our organization viable and to help these abandoned children of Romania, Rest in peace, Radu.

Every day, children of every age become orphaned or abandoned due to violence, natural disasters, poverty or disease. Without the support of a family, the outlook for these children is bleak.

Your gift to Archway Romania today provides children with:

Warm clean clothes;
Healthy meals and medical care
Identity Papers
Preschool, primary and secondary education counseling and training
School supplies
Emergency relief help in crisis situations

Established in 1999, Archway Romania is the one of the largest organization based in Bucharest devoted to the care of orphaned and abandoned children living on the streets of Bucharest.

Donate Help a Child to Go to School

31% funded

Archway Romania foundation provides the necessary material and financial support for the education of the children who come from poor families, disadvantaged families, foster care , with disabilities and difficult health problems who need a warm meal, a sandwich, an education and a help for their integration in school system.

In Romania, 1 in 5 children are facing major deficiencies, the parents of these children have lost their jobs( most of the time temporary or seasonal jobs), and who ended up in the situation of not having food, hygiene products, medicine, basic foodstuffs to survive, lack of a home and the discrimination due to poverty.

The pandemic has deeply affected the education and has worsened the existing social inequalities.

Any of your contribution will be invested for the benefit of street children, to prevent school leaving, discrimination and juvenile delinquency, together with you we can give necessary equipment to be able to carry out their online classes( tablets, internet access), educational materials( backpacks, notebooks, pens, markers, crayons, geometric kits, pencil cases , etc), clothes and shoes, food and personal hygiene products to help them not to drop out of school because of poverty and poor living conditions.

Thanks for your interest in this critical step forward for our kids.

Please Help Us to Replace the Old and Broken Car

15% funded

Please help us raise urgently the amount of 20.000$ in order to buy a new car to continue helping street children and disadvantaged families that we help together for 23 years .

Our car is old, it was manufactured in 2006.We fixed several defects that the car developed over time, and recently in order to be able to help children from the street, we had to repair the water pump for cooling the engine and the oil leaks that the car has, shortly after that we had to change the clutch kit with the pressure plate.

Another more expensive repair was the removal of the rust that appeared aggressively in the car body because the car is 16 years old since it was manufactured and we had to repair it in order to get a license from the Romanian Auto Registry to be able to continue to drive it safely on the streets.

Now we have very serious problems with the engine, the car starts very hard and it is possible that the car will stop working and we won’t be able to help street children, we will have to raise money together so we can buy a new car because it would be very expensive to repair the engine.

Please help us raise urgently the amount of 20.000$ in order to buy a new car to continue helping street children and disadvantaged families that we help together for 23 years .

It is necessary to buy another car to ensure the transport of food, clothing, thick blankets and medicine to poor and needy children who live on the streets, to be able to drive in all sectors of Bucharest where street children live in abandoned buildings, heating sewers or shacks made of cardboard or plastic material.

We can make this mission possible if we join forces to raise the necessary money to replace the old car in order to continue helping poor and needy children and to be able to ensure that they live in a cleaner and more decent life.

Together with you we can make this mission possible, to continue our tradition of 23 years and to help further poor children living on the street. God bless us all to overcome this problem too and to continue this mission together with you. Thank you very, very much for your help!!!