Chicken Coop
in Romania
In Romania there is a
home for the aged that is sponsored by the Red Cross. Most are patients discharged from hospitals
with no home or family to care for them.
The Red Cross has an old home that houses a dozen or so residents. Others live in modified shipping containers
on the property next door until a second new house is finished.
Local residents of the community voluntarily
feed these people 3 meals a day, donating time and the food out of the kindness
of their hearts.
The residents supplement
this with produce from their garden and fruit trees on the property.
But the meals do not include a lot of meat or
protein, given its expense. So the Church
provided a chicken coop and chickens for this home. The chicken coop has a concrete floor and
walls with a strong metal roof. It is
surrounded by a fenced-in concrete pad and in many ways it is better than most
of the homes (for people) we passed driving there.
Now the residents can have eggs for
breakfast, chicken for supper occasionally and a little extra to sell for other
necessities.
One fond memory is of a
little babushka (grandmother) standing inside the fence with a chicken under
each arm talking to them and caring for them individually. The Red Cross workers say she spends most of her day
there.
