OPERATION BLESSING

Hope Restores a Mother’s Broken Heart  

CBN.com – Just off a country road in a Romania stands an apartment building that's easy to miss. There is nothing special outside - but inside families crowd into tiny, dirty spaces. The yards outside are filled with garbage and debris. But if you came down one particular hall and stopped in one particular place, you'd find a much different scene - a lovely, well kept room. Nothing is out of place.

Someone is taking good care of this small home, and that someone is Maria.

Maria is a mother who has very little and is trying very hard to do the best she can for her family. Her face radiates when she talks about Jesus.

Maria wants so much to provide a home for her children. With as little as she has she makes so much out of it.

But the Rubina family faces an obstacle they can't overcome. Their children don't go to school. Manuel is eligible for kindergarten, and so is Romona. But the Rubina's can't afford proper clothes and shoes needed to attend. And the town middle school won't accept her older boys because they can't read or write. They could attend a special school in the city that helps children catch up to their grade level, but the Rubinas can't afford bus tickets.

Instead, the children work all day to help the family make money - here, in the dump, looking for scraps of iron to recycle and sell. They get 15 cents per pound.

To see her children work instead of go to school breaks Maria's heart.

But something is about to happen to the Rubina family that will change their situation - because Operation Blessing has a big presence in Romania!

First, Operation Blessing added the Rubina's to their food distribution. Then, OB Back to School funds made sure Romona and Manuel had clothes and shoes so they could attend kindergarten

And Operation Blessing didn't forget about the older boys! Staff members pick them up and take them into the city to a special school where they're learning to read and write! Each day they learn more and more, thanks to something as simple as a ride to school.

And as an added gift, when Operation Blessing saw how hard Maria worked to keep everything clean, they bought her a washing machine.

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