Foundation Promotie / Aid Transports to Romania

On Wednesday, August 23, we again succeeded in loading a trailer of relief goods with destination Breaza. This with a stopover in Marghita to load flour, potatoes and vegetables. This goes, for example, to Viorel, who bakes bread from the flour for the many poor people there. Bread and flour is a basic necessity. In villages they still bake a lot of bread themselves, sometimes on a simple open fire. Photos of the loading in Broek op Langedijk. In the night from Friday to Saturday August 26, the truck arrived in Marghita and unloading and loading started in the morning. This under the supervision of Miranda and Gerard-Jan who are staying in Romania for a week with a group of young people from the Netherlands. Here is the link to photos. The truck arrived in Breaza in the course of Saturday afternoon. Because of the high temperature (more than 35 °C) it was decided to unload in the evening. Here is the link to photos. Thanks to our loyal sponsors, we managed to build another house in the...

The days seem to follow each other faster. Apart from that, another trailer was loaded with relief goods in Broek op Langedijk on Wednesday 16 August. This time with destination Botosani, with a stopover in Marghita. Here is the link to pictures of the loading. The driver did not experience any serious problems at the border, but a truck that was on his way sent them back. Not the right papers or a “dirty” load? On Friday afternoon the farm was unloaded and potatoes, onions and vegetables were loaded and on Saturday afternoon unloading took place in Botosani. Cristi was very happy with it. Attached are the photos of the unloading and some of the distribution to poor people living in villages around Botosani. Part of this cargo goes to the Ukraine, collection by vans by Igor is becoming increasingly difficult due to the stricter border controls. Here is the link to photos. Henk and Marin from Band sent pictures of the construction of a house and the distribution of relief supplies. Here...

In the previous blog I mentioned that another trip to Romania was planned. Together with Gerrit Beetsma and Gerard Smit we left on Tuesday August 8th and we were back home Saturday August 12th. Wednesday and Thursday we were at the farm to discuss current affairs with Attila and Ference. The bottom line is that thanks to the good growing season and Attila's craftsmanship, excellent yields in kilos are achieved. As I wrote before, it is difficult to sell these products at a good price, mainly due to the consequences of the war in the Ukraine. Here's the link to some photos. It is going to change again, so we must keep our eye on the future. Attila and his team will do this and are already busy with preparations for next year's crops. Frans Boom and his team from www.iq-group.nl , were working on the installation of solar panels on the roof of the barn in the context of this future-oriented thinking. This went really fast, Attila expressed his surprise several times. A few v...

On Wednesday, August 3, a truck with a trailer was loaded with destination Botosani. We were able to gather some food from a number of sources and thus make a nice mix of usable relief goods. Here is the link to photos. It is currently very warm in a large part of Romania, with temperatures above 40 °C. Fortunately, next week the temperature will drop to normal summer values. Cristi sent a message that the truck will be unloaded on Monday morning. He is in Romania. Here is the link to a message from Cristi. Viorel and Elena from Deja sent their weekly message again. Because of this weekly message, the ins and outs in such a gypsy community are starting to get used to, it seems. Yet it also remains unreal that so many people and young children live like this. Here is the link to photos with an explanation Henk Muller is still not on his strength and unfortunately cannot do what he wants. Fortunately, the people around him take good care of him. Marin the local pastor and jack of all tra...