Blueprint for a home...for a family

We recently got an email from our team leader letting us know the details of the build -- where we would be working, what we would be doing and a little bit of information about the family we would be helping.

I was excited to learn that we would in fact be living and working in an orphanage to build a home. Caminul Felix is located outside of Oradea and creates family environments for orphans. The compound has various family homes and families are as large as 18 children varying in age. We will be spending 4 days working there on the house in the image above.

What we heard from Mircea and his wife Lidia: 18 Years ago we have decided to help the orphans of our country. We got a big housefrom Caminul Felix organization where are 16 Family homes. We got a beautiful house and in one week we got 16 orphan children from the street and state orphanages. We have become their mom and dad. Then we got our 2 biological children. Since 18 years ago we have lived together as family. As our children grew up, the older ones have become adults and today we have 6 of them that got married and 2 others have moved out on their own working abroad.Right now have 10 teenagers that are 14-20 years old. Two of them are studying in university and 8 of them are still in school.Transitional House. The house we live in, is 12 bedrooms house. A good house for a family of 20 people living together for 18 years. Because we are right now a family of 12 people.

This to build for our family a smaller house with 6 bedrooms as a transitional house where we will live till all our children will be able to live on their own.Then the for the big house of 12 bedrooms bring a new couple of parents that will take 16 orphan children that will create a new family. In Romania are still many orphans that we believe that they need to grow up in a family environment. Our believe is to give to the orphan children a family for life

Looking forward to meeting the family and getting to work!