Welcome to the web site of STEPS Romania

Registered Charity No. 1092672

STEPS Romania was set up in 2002 to help disadvantaged children in Romania. It comprises volunteers from Methodist churches in Alderley Edge, Altrincham, Burslem, Helsby, Newcastle and Wolstanton. Teams of people with some, little or no D.I.Y. experience spend a week at their own expense working on projects to provide facilities for children in Romania.

	When a dreadful hospital needed a children’s playground, we built one.
	When there was a serious problem of children with AIDS, we helped build a hospice.
	When we found street children living in the city’s sewers, we renovated a hostel.
	When Roma children needed a welfare centre, we helped build one.
	A Roma school needs a carpentry workshop so we are helping build one.
	A kindergarten in Slobozia needs an extension so we are helping build it.

Romania is still a very poor country. Some people are rich but the vast majority are very poor. At the bottom of the pile are the gypsy Romas, and in the very poor families it is often the children who suffer most. In Roma villages near Iasi, a Romanian charity ‘Link Romania’ is helping very poor families. In the desperately poor village of Slobozia, Link Romania has a small building which is used as a kindergarten, a homework club, for youth clubs, mothers’ groups and bible studies etc. This small building urgently needs extending to help more young children. In 2010 we are working with Link Romania to help them fulfil their ambitions. With your help we will.

More information on the Slobozia project