I took a (moderate) break yesterday and today (as far as possible, messages are always on) and spent some time to just contemplate my work and rest my thoughts in the kindness of the good people that I have the joy of knowing.

When I first started my work with HOCT, I was sponsoring a child, just like many of you. And then everything took off, my closest friends joined the “challenge”, people found out, gathered around me, a very large family was built.

Sometimes I can’t believe it myself. In 2019, we had 29 children in our registry and I was fighting so hard to find parents for them. Now, everything is a dream. We built a Library, a Hospital and we are building a School.

Today, I sent the funds for the purchase of bricks. I can’t wait to see the huge quantity that will be delivered to the construction site. I know nothing about construction, but each day I am learning something.

There is so much work piled up.

I am so tired…

It is so good.

Veronica Anghelescu

We provided food and gifts to 300 + children. A blessing!

The joy and blessing of our activity! The pictures speak for themselves.

This little boy, Bafumba, is very dear to my heart. When I first started working with HOCT, he was already there, among the first “batch” of children.

Last week, he got very sick, suffering from severe abdominal pain. I was fearing appendicitis, so I sent him straight to hospital. It turned out he had a kidney and stomach issue (two separate issues), he was admitted and remained in the hospital for one week, undergoing a lot of procedures and good quality treatment.

Yesterday, he was discharged, and he is doing so much better. He came to say thank you.

If it is within our power, we will not any child suffer.

How did you spend your Monday?

Here’s how we spent ours.

It was a beautiful day of serene, peaceful work.

When we feed a child, the whole world is healing.

William Shakespeare said that we should be great in act, just as we have been in thought. It is not so easy, when you think of it. In our mind, in our own secure inner world, we are all so brave. We all do great deeds. We all save the world. But at the end of the day, it is all reduced to thought.

It is important to have pure thoughts. But even more important is to put them into action, in a proper and righteous way – to be the outer versions of our inner projections.

I have always considered that being consistent and aligned with our inner principles is one of people’s best and most important qualities. It is all about the promises we make to ourselves and to others – and about how we keep them.

I have promised you a beautiful story, one that will make you glad that such people exist in our world.

A week ago, I was seeking your help for an older child out ours, a teenager named Kabagambe Umaru who wants to achieve his dream of becoming a laboratory technician in the medical field.

Due to the fact that his generous long-distance friend provided him with food, he was able to stop working in agriculture and dedicate himself to learning and had been admitted to a lab technician school.

He had requested for very simple, wholesome things: books for school, a lab coat and an admission fee tax. You have gone beyond with helping him and we received more than needed, and when we offered him the funds for other necessities, he said – “No, I will not take anything extra, it will be my great pleasure to help a brother of mine in need.”

So together we planned and decided that the extra he had received to go to a severely disabled child called Noris, whose case we had just received that day, for a bed.

Kababambe has also written all of you a letter to show you his appreciation and gratitude.

It is a very good day for humanity.

Children born in October have had their party. It was beautiful and inspiring.