This happy home is in one of the Camino Felix villages near Oradea, Romania.
Camino Felix believes that a child suffering from trauma and abandonment needs a safe haven
where he or she can feel secure and have time to recover and reveal life.
At Camino Felix family villages orphaned children discovered a haven, a home, loving
adoptive parents and brothers and sisters.
A group of us visited Camino Felix last winter and we were mesmerized by what we saw.
It was a life-changing experience for each one of us and from then on with eyes open
and with God's help we strive to match their good deeds.
I love how they just really, really want the best in absolutely everything and they won't
settle for anything but the best and like Catherine and I went to the pharmacy because
Catherine needed some antibiotics and then Matteo said, I asked my wife what antibiotics
she needed but I need to check because they have to be the best, like even the antibiotics
we have and he's like no, like we won't settle for anything but the best and I was like they
just summed up everything here, they're just like no, nothing but the best.
We also visited a village next to a dumpster where some of the children in Camino Felix
had come from.
Which was a strong word for what it was.
Literally breaking cycles of poverty because the children who we saw graduating in really
good jobs and so they will then go on to provide for their own families in a really good way
so hopefully, like they're literally, like instead of just being like oh it's okay, we'll
get you through life, they're really going for the best, which is really cool.
It was kind of strange, the contrast between like luxury really that the Camino Felix
children are living in and then like the conditions that the families we saw were living in.
It's just so weird, like it must be very hard to deal with only being able to help a certain
number of kids and then there's all the families, you know, all the children who have families
but are still living in pretty bad conditions, even if they're not often due around them.
Yeah, and it makes you think like whenever I hear that kids are being in, like I think
their parents must be terrible but maybe some of them leave them because they think it'll
be a better situation.
What got to me as well was that some of the children that are here, like some of them
came from that situation but some of them came from worse, like some of them didn't
even have that, which is pretty crazy.
He actually says when she is here today they try and encourage the families to keep the
children like as much as possible and there's like a sister project I guess that used to
be Cameron Phillips but they handed it over and they worked with 180 families and basically
their aim is to provide food and clothing so that the children can stay with them rather
than having to take the children away.
I mean obviously they don't reach all the children because we saw that today but I thought
that was pretty cool that their first solution isn't like oh we've got a better home for
children.
