When the Elections are Over We'll finish...

Elections for local mayors is at the heighth of the campaigns so it appears that everything in Moldova stops during this time of elections. John Mulligan came from Frankfurt Germany and toured some water project sites and when he asked why the gravel drive had not been put in at the Firladeni water tower he was told that it would not get done until "after the elections".

Today we took John Mulligan to the closing of the Susleni nursing home project where we were donating kitchen equipment (sinks, refrig,steel tables, dishes, 40 liter cooking pots, etc)only to find that the remodeling of the kitchen had come to a standstill. We asked why they hadn't finished it like they said they would and we were told..."after the elections" they would come back and finish. John really got a laugh from that.
We went ahead and gave the nursing home all the equipment including the adult bibs and towels I had made. Then we went around and gave each of the residents gift bags with hats/scarves, goodies, and misc. items. They were so excited and happy. We hugged them all. Then we had a masa lunch with Tamara. I think John enjoyed being there.

John Mulligan, Area Welfare Manager from Frankfurt came to the closing. We presented the director, Dr. Tamara Soltan, with a Moldovan flag.

We gave gift bags with "Babushka scarves", treat bags, chapstick, lotion, tissues. This gal said she had no memory of EVER getting a gift before. She told us about loosing her 42 yr old daughter to breast cancer and asked if we would drive her into town to visit her 3 yr old grandson. We'll add that to the schedule asap.

Crocheting seat pads

Yippystemea and her cat Leeka

Sasha is blind. He got a new cap in his gift bag.