The red tile rooftops of Beius, the small Romanian town recently visited by members of Indian River County’s Habitat for Humanity team, who built the 100th HFH home there.
The inhabitants of Beius, Romania, gave a hero’s welcome to a group of American visitors who came to their small market town this past summer to build a house. This was not the first volunteer group who had come to construct a decent shelter amid the mud-and-straw huts and dingy, communist-era apartment buildings that multitudes of the underclass—mostly orphans and gypsies—call home. Nor would it be the last.
This time, however, there was cause for celebration. The visitors would complete the 100th Habitat for Humanity house built in Beius (pronounced bay-oosh), the birthplace of the housing ministry in Romania. That they hailed from halfway around the world, on a first-ever “Global Village” trip for Indian River Habitat for Humanity (IRHFH), only added to the adrenaline rush.
There were 16 voyagers in all—eight IRHFH employees, seven volunteers and a Global Village coordinator from Habitat for Humanity International. All it took was $2,000, two weeks of their time, and the will to go to a remote nation in eastern Europe.
Read the entire article in the September 2006 issue
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