Casa Shalom in Bucharest, Romania
Casa Shalom was founded in 1996 as a home for orphans and street children. Over the years we have taken in children from dysfunctional families as well as children living in poverty situations. Our goal is to help our young people with their education, to motivate and encourage them to get good grades in school. We give our children medical care, emotional support and see that they develop properly for their age-grade level. Our desire is to see them become independent successful adults that will reach out to help others just like we have helped them.
Recently Casa Shalom had it's tenth Anniversary in reaching out to the orphans and the children at risk in Romania. We have had over 70 children come through our home. Some only stayed for a short period of time while others have been with us for more than eleven years. The children go to the public school and we are proud of their acedemic accomplishments. Several of our children have been able to return to their families. One little boy was told that he was abandoned but last year we found his mother and he is now living with his birth family. He tells us, even through his mother abandoned him he is learning to love her. Time does heal and we are thankful for this happy ending. We are working at trying to find the parents of some of the other children that were abandoned at birth.