The team leaves on 8 September 2010. We will fly to Cluj Napoca and then go to Rodna - which is about 30 minutes drive from Bistrita. The team will be helping with the building project below, ministering in church meetings and also meeting the children who are joining the Grassroots Child Sponsorship Scheme (£8 per month does so much... go to the "Sponsor a Child" tab for more details)

Here are details of the building project we are going to do. (We have three other house building projects in Romania that Grassroots is raising money for at the moment that need over 10,000Euros from the UK to complete and we'll give you those details on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .)

Rodna (pictures  – the lady in the middle of the four children is Lidia, who runs the charity)
Family with 4 children, all students. Their father died unexpectedly six months ago. They live in a Grandma's room. They have a nearby field where the father began building a house with two rooms, hall, bath, kitchen and pantry total area of 65 square meters. The house foundation and walls are made. This means the house is planned to be larger than we would normally build. Costs could be reduced by about €800 if we only complete indoor hall, a  room and the kitchen. The family is very happy in this case too.

Estimated costs: €5500 for the complete building. €4700 for the reduced size house – with the complete roof but only the rooms as detailed above. By using the building team we may save up to €1000+, but we will have to see after we finish the project. €1000 will be donated by Christians in Romania which leaves between €3000+ needing to be raised by Grassroots in the UK. If there is money over from funds raised for this project it will be invested in the next one. The Rodna house is much more work than the usual Grassroots funded projects because the size of house (which we can't change because the walls are raised already), but Iacob has arrange with a builder (Ilie) to join with us and take responsibility for part of the work. In this case, it will be possible to finish in 5/6 days.

Tools requested (in addition to those in our Safety document ): "electric machines for wood cutting (chain saw and mitre saw); electric machine for drilling and screws; electric extension cable 25 or 50 m; wall plastering kits".

If you feel you could help with the costs of this or one of the other house building projects please donate via the Credit Card page and say it is for Romania. Or if you would prefer to donate a piece of equipment get in touch to tell us what and how you will get it to us. THANK YOU!!

If you feel you would like to come on a future building trip, drop us an This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . There are more details and forms on the "Mission Trips" tab.