The normal workweek I was writing about earlier this week, went a bit different today! (yeah!)

OM is blessed to help in the winter months around 1200 poor families and elderly with a food packet. The hallway in the office is packed with macaroni, sugar, washing powder, oil, rice, flower, cookies etc. Most of the packets are taken to the villages and given to poor families over there.

But 10 packets are for 10 families who live near the OM office. Often maybe I think that poorness is out in the villages and not so much in the capital city but today again I realized that poor people are everywhere... unfortunately...
This afternoon we went to visit Tamara and her family.

Tamara is maybe around 50 years old. She has a serious drinking problem and the director of the local school (who helped us to make a list of families who needed help) warned us not to leave the food with her because she would sell it and buy alcohol with the money. Tamara’s husband died a long time ago and so she raised her three children by herself. One of her sons left Moldova to work in Moscow, another son is working in advertising in Chisinau. He lives with his mother and with his salary, he helps to pay the bills. Tamara's daughter is called Olea. She is also living with her mother and she has two young children. Especially these two little girls are suffering from the bad conditions because of their grandmother's drinking problem.

Olea can’t work outside the house because she doesn’t want to leave her girls (4 years and nearly 2 years old) with her drinking mother. Olea's husband left her behind with the children and without a monthly income it is hard for Olea to take good care of her children. So the food parcel was most welcome!

I am happy that we were able to help this family just around the corner of the OM office. Please pray that our relationship with them would grow stronger as we continue this project throughout the winter.