When 13 staff from Childbase visited Romania to personally deliver Christmas gift boxes to orphans and children in care, none had expected the tremendous impact it would have on them emotionally and professionally.
The trip was led by Juliana Di Niro, manager of Lavenders Day Nursery in Bedford, who is Romanian herself. More than 1,300 shoe boxes crammed with gifts were collected through the group's 38 nurseries and stored in Juliana's sister's garage, in Brasov.
Three days were spent travelling around Transylvania in driving snow. The first was spent visiting 11, mainly small state centres around Brasov. The second day took the group 60 miles outside the town to visit two large orphanages in Rupea and Dacias. On the third day a further five calls were made in Ghimbav, Codlea, Fagaras and Victoria.
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