I had the rare opportunity in June to do an orphanage outreach with my three children and husband in two locations in Romania. We brought JOY BAGS and stylish t-shirts to a private children's home in the village of Arpasu. I was especially taken with a four year old boy who is deaf and mute...I was particularly sad that there are no plans to educate him with sign language.

He is exactly the age of my own son and looked very similar.

I have to wonder what kind of future this little guy has to look forward to? We also brought food supplies and special treats to a government run orphanage in the bigger town of Victoria.

One teenager impressed me very much, his name is Aurel, he taught himself to speak perfect English by viewing American television programs! He was quite the agile Break Dancer too.

A huge thank you goes out to all who donate time to sew JOY BAGS, Fang Fashion who donated the fabric for them and also girl's tops. Thank you also for the monetary donations, so that we were able to fill the bags with quality school supplies and art supplies!

JOY BAGS...we have now brought this special gift to children in crisis situations in Afghanistan, India, Zambia and now to Romania!

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I'm back from an amazing month long trip to Europe!

I will do some updates to the blog soon...but first, I need to sleep and catch up.