We began the Families in Crisis project in April 2000. The purpose of this project is to improve the living conditions of families who have to confront not only deep poverty, but spiritual crisis as well. The post revolution Romanian society's financial and spiritual decline has increased alarmingly. It is at crisis level on both a local as well as a national level.

When we began this project, Osana Foundation focused on 10 poor families with many children. We found these families living in an abandoned barn. These families have no running water, electricity, heat, plumbing, sewage, or place to collect their garbage. With some support from World Vision we have begun to tackle a few of the needs of these people. It is our goal to see these families crawl out from under this crisis situation and to begin to take back control of their own lives.

We are accomplishing this by assisting with day to day needs when we are able, by trying to help them improve the conditions at the barn, by giving them food and clothing whenever possible, and by assisting the parents in getting the children much needed medical attention. With the help of a social worker and a pastor at our local church we are trying to assist them in finding jobs, and working at meeting some of their spiritual needs. In 2001 we were able to assist 54 people… there are thousands more just like them who need someone's help.