The Lost & Found project has been set up by Pastor Cornel Fedor and supported by Link to Hope. His aim was to start a project when he saw how many people felt lost in this modern world and very individual society and how hopeless and desperate they felt.

“Through the Lost & Found projects we give them help and assistance, we guide them and help them to find themselves in this world. We spend hundreds of hours on the road, talking, making papers, going to different hospitals, filling out papers and all requirement for contracts and completing forms.

We believe and we know this is vital because we did see that the enormous help we have given to so many and peoples in this year have helped them.

We have a list of over 48 cases that we have helped in this time.

Thank you so much and we want to tell you we really want to carry on with this project

Update – JULY 2024

Many greetings, dear friends.

After a long and difficult winter, with huge prices for wood and gas, we now have a spring with stormy rains that destroy everything that has been planted. The big companies that provide utilities have found a loophole in legislation in Romania and have made huge estimates on bills affecting everyone. People don’t know how to sort this out knowing they will be disconnected if they don’t pay or appeal in writing via email to the companies.

The companies don’t care that there is no internet in the villages and most people do not have computers & don’t know how to formulate complaints and appeals.

We have had dozens of people who come to us daily with payment demands and exaggerated invoices often more than 10 times the value of their pensions, looking to us to solve their problems. We stay with each of them to understand their problems, helping them to formulate appeals and prove the estimates are exaggerated and send emails with this information to the utility companies. There are no offices in the villages and nothing can be solved over the phone. And it is not just the utility companies; it is now their taxes, tv and firewood departments.

So we use our resources to travel from place to place, from village to village, meeting with desperate elderly and neglected people, listening to their problems and supporting them however we can. We teach them how to organise the papers they receive and keep track of their appeals. This is very difficult as many people are almost illiterate and have no understanding of computers or why this is all happening to them.

Our heart is broken at every step by so much suffering that we find in the lives of old and lost people in modern times, but they give thanks for the help we give and we rejoice that you are a blessing to these lost people. They thank you because with your help we can read them an invoice, a contract, make requests to the local authorities, make a complaint to the utilities, guide their steps for every problem and we are with them with our “bag with science” (laptop). Week by week, they hope, trust and wait patiently for us.

We thought this project would be temporary and would stop very soon but it is far from possible to stop this now because more and more people, widows, old people and many single people come to us desperately asking for our help to find a way to solve their problems. Thank you so much.

O yes, we thank you and all the sponsors and donors for your constant support in this project. Because you exist we can do this great thing to help the ‘lost’ peoples in any circumstance to found the way and the path toward solution.

May God bless you abundantly! Kindest regards

Cornel

Mr Marian is 80 and lives in a village with a dead end. One of his friends had asked for help and he mentioned Mr Marian’s problems. Mr Marian has severe medical issues and problems with mobility so couldn’t go to renew his water and electricity contracts. In one day the water and electricity were cut. He has no computer or and tried to call the company but just got a ‘robot’ on the other end. For more than a month he struggled to solve the situation with no results. Through our project ‘ lost and found’ we were able to put together all the papers had helped him to apply online for these services. Finally we had success and Mr Marian is so thankful because you exist and make this possible.

In another village Mr Petru, 83, was in a worse situation but with the same problem. ‘Uncle’ Petru is a very small man and in recent years had his right leg amputated from the hip. He is alone, without a disability pension, without any help and support, with very little knowledge of the modern world apart from a 20-year-old phone. He was a diligent and hardworking man in his youth, a great carpenter, but diabetes, disability and loneliness are grinding him down. His television was cut off, his radio broke down, the postman stopped bringing his monthly retirement pension and he lost his medical card so the family doctor no longer gave him his prescriptions. That is how we found him and we started the long road of fighting modernism and bureaucracy. Through your help we gave him hope and a little rest and comfort. It was a long list of things that was needed, with many papers and letters to be fill out, but in the end we smiled together. From all of his ‘little body’ he sends you his love, thanks and appreciation.

Rebeca

Rebeca finished only 8 classes, we motivated, encouraged and spend a lot of time with her and her family to fill out all the forms and make all the papers needed to keep go to school. She is the first ever girl who go to high school from that area.

Maria Coste

We are working with Maria Coste, a very nice old lady.  Maria was born in 03 December 1920, and for many years she didn’t know how to pay the bills, go to doctors and go somewhere to pay taxes etc. Now  she is 97 years old she lives by herself. She is a widow and has been single from 39 years ago.  Last time when Maria went out from her house and front yard was 16 years ago except to go to 2 or 3 house around, or out from village or to some shop etc.

We try to explained to her all the political changes, money changes, technology and cell phones … She is totally lost in this world. She can’t handle this. We spend a lot of time around her and your project is a big big help for her.

Daniel & family

Another situation is Daniel family. He is single, his wife left him and their child Ionan when she was four years old.  He has single handedly raised Ioana with is in the 3rd grade and 9 years old. Daniel had never left Gherla. However he had to Cluj for an appointment with the Psychiatric doctor for Ioana’s depression. He asked us for help saying that he can’t manage the situation of going to Cluj. I was with him and spend days making papers and visit many doctors.  Daniel was extremely grateful for the help.

Boby

Boby is another person who never left Gherla. Due to the fact that he was born with some problems, no-one took him to the doctors and he never had a chance of going to school.

With the charities help he was able to visit a doctor in Cluj and for the first time and he now has an ID card, has had an investigation by the doctor and some treatment. Now at 21 years old he have a chance to be integrated a little bit into normal life.  When he went to Cluj he was so surprised to see there were so many buildings and many cars in a big city like Cluj.  He was worried we might get lost and not know our way back to Gherla. He and his parents is so thankful for our foundation help.