Alexandra Ioana Sponsor

Alexandra Ioana (born in 2010) and Ana-Maria (born in 2008) joined our family in 2019. After the divorce of their parents, the sisters' life took an unthinkable turn: their father left the house and refused any communication with the girls, while their mother turned to alcohol as a way to cope with her situation. The girls had to move to their maternal grandparents' house suddenly, but this temporary solution failed after the home was flooded. Even though the grandparents tried their best to raise the little girls, they were in a constant struggle because of the lack of necessary finances and the inability to offer them a proper environment to grow up in. The girls' mother refused to show any proper interest in raising her daughters and did not want to take them back home.

After the grandmother passed away, being faced with caring for the two sisters alone, a task beyond his ability and strength, the grandfather had to ask the Child Protection Agency for help. 

It was the end of 2018 when Hand of Help was asked to step in and offer these girls a place to call home. Unfortunately, throughout the years spent with their grandparents, Alexandra and Ana-Maria oftentimes missed school, and not only were they in need of special care and attention pertaining to their education, but also emotional support and personal time dedicated to helping them cope with all the difficult events they had endured in their lives. With the help of our teachers, they started working hard in their free time and were able to recuperate the information they had missed in school during their absences.

Alexandra continues to visit her maternal grandfather and spends her holidays there. She is involved around the house, helping her social workers, and is also passionate about reading. She attends a book club and spends a lot of her free time reading. She is doing very well in school and finished the last school year with high grades. 

We are so grateful to have Alexandra under our care and to see the sisters together. We pray that our God would grant them the strength to move forward and that their years at Hand of Help will be a time of building a strong foundation for their lives, one modeled through the love and grace of our Lord.