Look What Last Years Flood Did

Homes are made of a limestone type block. This is what they look like after a flood.

Standing water a year later

The house was washed away

The ducks are thriving in the flooded villages

One new house donated for flood victims
Another home built for them. This was built by Moldovans- you can tell because of the block

Each home is getting an outhouse

This village of new homes is about 1/2 mile uphill from the old old village. The oversight is that no water source was put in the area where the new homes are built so the residents have to walk the 1/2 mile down the hill to get water from a well and carry the bucket of water back up the hill. Ugh! This is the only well at the top of the hill in the new housing area but it was put in by one of the new home owners on his own private property. It was a very very deep well.

The roads are still rough gravel. Here is one of the homeowners in his wagon. Probably going down the hill to carry water up to his house.

After touring the affected areas and seeing the new housing being built we met with the social assistance leaders to offer to help. Then we visited a dormatory building in Hincesti that is housing 30 families or about 100 people of all ages who lost everything in the flood. The housing was pretty awful. There was a musty mildew smell everywhere because they have tried to salvage things from their flooded homes. The overwhelming and emotional cry from the people was that they did not have enough food. Two elderly women wept. One bedridden woman lost her wheelchair in the flood. One mother with her infant in arms got emotional then angry when discussing how they don't have food because their gardens and bottled food were ruined. Tom and I are going to try to provide food on a consistant basis to these people until they are able to move into the homes being built by the government for them.