Anca L

Anca (the younger sister of Daniela and Delia, also previously a part of our Hand of Help family) came from a family well-known to our ministry. Their family home had always been open to our teams whenever we visited the nearby villages to help the families in need. Aurica, their mother, insisted that she fed everyone who came through, regardless of the number of people. She was a hard-working sister in Christ and was our contact person for different situations that our brothers and sisters were confronted with in the villages surrounding Tudor Vladimirescu. Moreover, she used to travel with us every time to personally visit the families in need and pray with them.

She was a role model not only for her fourteen children but also for us and every other person that met her. She kept an impeccable house, always made sure she had cooked food for her family and all the visitors that came by, and her storage room was full of homemade jars of jams, preserves, vegetables for winter, and so much more. Always faithful, always grateful, she worked day by day to make sure she was a wife, a mother, and an example to all, according to what Christ taught us to be.

The month of February 2017 was when we received the terrible news. Following a massive stroke and months in a coma, the Lord had taken Aurica home and into eternal rest. Eight of her fourteen children were still living at home, the youngest being only six years old. With the father at work all day trying to make ends meet, his children were left alone, with no one to help them. The older girls, teenagers themselves, had to take up the maternal role for the younger ones. It was after a few months that the father, a hard-working individual working two shifts, realized that he would not be able to raise the children by himself and assist them in attending high school, the closest being almost 20 miles away.

Although having learned so much from their mother and trying their best to keep the house in place, it was soon obvious that the older girls were doing all this at the cost of their own well-being, often putting school in a secondary place and heading towards completely giving up their education. When their father asked for our help, we immediately started working with local authorities to get the approval to welcome the sisters to our orphanage.

All three sisters adjusted very quickly to our center and were exceptional role models to the younger girls.

Anca, just like Delia and Daniela, learned from their mother to tend to all types of chores around a house and was always helping our staff with cleaning, cooking, mending clothes, etc. She was also playing the guitar in our orchestra.

Always passionate about what she would like to study, with the help of our merciful God, Anca was admitted to the exact school she desired to attend - Cosmetic Medicine Studies, part of the University of Medicine in Iasi, a well-known university in Romania. In the spring of 2025, Anca started her very own family. How precious was the sight of Anca and her husband joined together in the covenant of marriage!

Anca was also able to take advantage of a Romanian government-initiated program where qualifying young adults ages 18 to 26 could receive a generous initial sum of money, followed by monthly financial support from the state if they left the social system and showed proof that they are continuing their education or are employed.

As her husband is already employed in Belgium, Anca plans on finding a job in her field of work over there as well. They will be close to Anca's other sisters, already living in Belgium.

We thank you for giving us the chance to help young girls like Anca continue their path to maturity, making sure that they lack nothing and that they always have someone to rely on. We praise God for these sisters and the work He is doing in their lives.