Just beauty and kindness.

Beautiful progress! Faith in humanity… reconfirmed.

I took the last week off (in a manner of speaking!) and went to our local seaside to relax a bit. This means, I no longer to two jobs per day, but only one – the work I do for the children. There is no way this can ever stop, because if I don’t work, the children will not eat, and I cannot endure that.

So… a picture with my sea…

…followed by the work we accomplished today. HOCT is my life; I cannot be without it.

With love,

Veronica ANGHELESCU

The school construction is progressing slowly. I have a new video each day. I can’t believe how beautiful it gets, how sturdy and how high – and I can’t wait to see children play in the yard and sitting inside for studies.

I really feel I’ve done something with my life.

Look at this splendid work in progress!

[Warning: pictures with physical malformations]

This little boy, Alunat (3 years old) was born with severe malformations of hands and feet – a genetic disorder. I will learn more about it, but it looks like his dear mother has them too. The mother’s name is Sofia and she is just 23 years old. Do you see how defeated she looks?

She loves her little boy – no matter how he is. She tried her best to bring him up and keep him healthy and clean – please notice he is not sloppy, and neither is she. She is struggling – because she was abandoned, and because no one would even employ someone with such a disability – let alone one who carries a disabled child everywhere.

I want us to help this little lady and her boy Alunat together, to make them feel they are not alone in this world. I will post progress in the days to come.

Just look at those pictures and be happy. There is real kindness in our world: not only ugliness, not only wars, not only betrayal. Not only broken promises. There is grace and purity and love, and people who change the world.

At the end of the day, I look at what people have accomplished – for I have but little merit; you are the doers, the makers! You are the angels of this world. I am just the girl with the Excel tables.

And when I look at such proof of love, I tell myself that life is really worth living.

The iron bars and other small bits and pieces have arrived, so we are resuming construction. Up up we go!

When I first started working at HOCT, my heart was completely captured by a beautiful little girl who was not smiling at all. She was thin, delicate, too underweight and withdrawn.

She has become someone extraordinary today: strong, healthy, hardworking and smart.

I thank her for being there! Each day, she gives me motivation to continue working.

This little boy is just a little bit bigger than his carton of eggs. Too adorable not to share!