Habitat for Humanity

This is from our weekend working for Habitat for Humanity Romania. We went with about 30 volunteers and two staff members. We started out the weekend Friday night at a four star hotel in Pitesti. Along with the 250 lei they gave us food and board was covered so basically as "volunteers" we each had about 100 lei leftover . Everyone except for me who lost a 100 lei at a restaurant, left with more money than we anticipated having. Thanks PC for paying us to volunteer. We started working on Saturday digging a trench all around the house, which was to house 16 small families. It was so hot until it rained in the afternoon to cool everyone off. I spent the last 3/4 of the day with a stomach ache after working in the heat and taking antibiotics for 2 ear infections. Yuck!! The child in the window spent the whole weekend watching us, thinking God knows what. I also got to watch a dog give birth to her puppies. Everyone was quite disgusted except for me. It was really sad since her bed was in the Habitat house in a dirt pit.

Habitat Romania started in 1996 and now operates in 7 cities and surrounding villages. They had their 100th house finished in 2003. We were told that the apartment we were working on would not be done for over a year and maybe two. In Pitesti, Habitat started in 2001 and they have renovated 30 apartments.