My name is Tamara. I am from the Republic of Moldova and I was born in 1980. I became a Christian in 1996. Many people of my age from Moldova move to other countries to earn money. I decided to stay here. If everyone moves away, who stays?

In 2003 I started my service in my home village of Paicu. I started working with children, then parents of these children also became Christians and slowly a church began to grow that I had to take over as leader, because there was no one else there.

We started helping children, poor people and widows. Currently, we (a team of 6 people) bring old people from our village a hot meal every day and distribute food packages and other relief supplies in and around our village. I work with orphans, abandoned and neglected children.

At the moment I care for 9 children in the Avata Shelter House: