St Vincent de Paul group in England helps impoverished Romanians

A St Vincent de Paul group in Hexham and Newcastle Diocese has provided £600 in funding to help impoverished families in Romania.

The Tynemouth Priory partnership SVP group is paying for 40 children to go on a once-a-lifetime educational, fun outing. Four of the children inhabit a two-room house with no running water. 

The money has been split equally between three projects, and will also fund a separate trip for 20 isolated, elderly Romanians who depend for friendship upon their local SVP volunteers. 

The final third has been used to purchase 180 baby chicks for six families, who include two child orphans, a single mother of two children with learning difficulties, and a widow with two children and two grandchildren. 

After raising the chicks – with assistance – the families will retain 80 per cent of them for eggs and food, as part of a healthier, yet sustainable diet. However, one in five of the birds will be given back to a local SVP group who plan to re-donate the birds either to elderly Romanians or else families in need. The families can keep the rest of the chickens for eggs, or as healthier, and sustainable options for their regular diet. 

When approached for help by the SVP’s ambassador for Romania in England and Wales, the Tynemouth Priory group unanimously pledged the money. It was the first SVP group in England and Wales to respond to the ambassador’s request. 

The Tynemouth Priory partnership comprises nine churches located across most of North Tyneside, including Backworth, Cullercoats, Monkseaton, North Shields, Tynemouth, Wallsend and Whitley Bay. It includes six parishes, including St Cuthbert and St Joseph, North Shields, Our Lady Star of the Sea parish in Whitley Bay, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, West Monkseaton and Our Lady’s and St Oswin’s, Tynemouth.

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