Healthy Meals for Special Needs Romanian Orphans

Buna Ziua ! (Good afternoon in Romanian)

We are excited to share with you details on how we used your funds to serve healthy meals to special needs kids who attend our Delia's Learning Center in Barlad, Romania.  CEO Laura Larkin and I just returned from two weeks visiting with our team of professionals and spending lots of time with our kids. Our appeal to you to help fund our nutrition program enables us to provide food each day for more than six months!

Our kids live in Vaslui County, one of the poorest areas of the entire European Union. Many of them live in villages without running water or refrigeraton at home. Each weekday, we serve two meals as we have morning and afternoon sessions. Kids in the morning session receive a hot, nutritious lunch. Those in the afternoon session receive a healthy small meal or snack and freshly squeezed juices. Since opening our doors, we had received a nutrition grant from a U.S. company but due to the pandemic that company could no longer provide funding. We have been very concerned as to how we were going to continue providing meals.

Your donation made a huge difference!  Not only have we been able to continue serving meals, but we have provided emergency food to kids/families attending our Center.  We will continue to fundraise (and seek out other grants) and appreciate all of the support you have given to us!

I am so happy to be able to share some photos of meal time and the nutritious food!  Our Wellness Director, Coca, has also been helped in the kitchen by some of our teens who participate in our life skills program. She has been teaching them to set the table, wash the dishes, etc.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions!

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram :  www.deliascenter.org

@the_delia_foundation

With Gratitude,

Lauren 

Links:

• Website
• Facebook page