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RENOVATION PROGRAM

GSB owns three apartments located in the NEFA complex of Beius. NEFA was created as a block of apartments for NEFAMILISTI, which in Romanian means "without families." There are approximately 250 people living in one or two bedroom apartments in this complex. Some of the apartments have been remodeled by Habitat For Humanity with the CASA NOASTRA project (see www.habitatbeius.ro). These renewed apartments have both hot and cold water and showers.

The apartments that have not been remodeled belong to local families. Most of them have access only to cold water. They don't have showers and every three apartments share a common toilet.

The majority of the building is in neglected condition and needs remodeling, including the GSB units. At present, young, married orphans with children rent 1 of these GSB rooms. They are unable to rent other apartments in town due to both financial limitations and the unwillingness of local owners to rent to people coming from the orphanages.

Other occupants of the GSB rooms are orphans that formerly lived in the streets of Beius.For example, Costica, 20 years old, used to live in extremely inadequate housing without access to running water, heat, or a toilet: first in the foundation of an unfinished construction site in Beius where winter temperatures drop to minus 15 Celsius (+5 Fahrenheit), and later on a landing in the stairway of the NEFA block.Starting in February 2004, Costica will work on the HFH site as a GSB client and will live with other young colleagues in a room in the NEFA complex.

Last year we helped a young orphan, Margareta, to renew a one-bedroom apartment in NEFA block that she had bought with the help of her sponsor.

Do you want to help renovate one of the GSB apartments to grant young orphans a decent home? Please click here to view a detailed budget for the remodeling.