The charity has worked in Romania since 1991 and works alongside Focsani social services, supporting a home for disadvantaged children. Its objective is to set up and fund a second home for up to six older teenagers within a safe family environment to learn life skills. Most children it works with have been institutionalised since birth.

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We are now in the midst of preparations for our next visit April 2004. Our current team will include several old faces as well as a few new ones.

Back in December 1989 pictures of the Romanian revolution on the streets of the capital Bucharest and the fall of the 21-year dictatorship of Nikolai Chauchesku startled the world. Then, just a few weeks later harrowing television pictures showed the plight of children in the many orphanages all around Romania.

Two of the many who cried when they saw the images were Jenny and David Helyer. They decided they needed to do something more:By 1991 the concept of 'Hands of Love' was brought into being as Jenny and David found themselves making there first of many visits to a town called Focsani. More >>

We are currently building the site, this is what has happened so far:

• A number of pictures in the gallery.
• Click on the Flags and compare the two countries!
• Added five newsletters, Thanks Anne-Marie, I hear the next one is 13 pages long! Pray for those sore fingers!!
• Adding new information