Growing Care is a charitable organisation run by the founders, Lewis and Jacquie Aubry. The current project started in 2002 with the purchase of a field of sunflowers in Siminoc, Romania.
The land is gradually being turned into a smallholding, which will be used to teach animal husbandry and cultivation skills to Romanian youngsters in the hope it will enable them to break out of the poverty cycle.
A truck loaded with aid was recently sent to Growing care in Romania by the Isle of Wight Rotary Clubs. Warm clothing, blankets and even knitted teddy bears were in the consignment.
The store room at Siminoc was almost completely full of plastic sacks and one of the new animal houses had to be used for all the cartons that arrived.
