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Welcome to the Holding Out Hope Charity

The Holding Out Hope Charity became registered as a charity in 1999, however this small group has been involved in numerous projects, supporting children and adults in Romanian institutions since 1991.

Pete Brady, the founder member and chairman of this charity first went out to Romania in 1991 with Bristol Mencap, having seen horrific films of some of the institutions and the deprivation suffered by the inmates.

The scandal of these institutions was revealed to the world following the fall of communism and the countries dictator Nicole Causcescu.

The Charity, which is Thornbury based has always consisted of a small core group of volunteers, however new volunteers are always welcome.

We have always been realistic about what we hope to achieve in this unusual and interesting country.

We realised very early on that staff working in some of these institutions would not take too kindly to ‘ know alls ’ from the west going over to show ‘ them ’ how they should provide care. As far as many of them were concerned they were doing no wrong, though it was evident to us that they needed to seriously change their attitude to childcare.

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