A brief history

The milennium for us was the year in which our family's life changed completely. In September 2000 we moved to Arad in Romania where we have lived for the past 7 years, adapting to the language and culture and working on the streets of the city and in poor communities, doing what little we can to make a difference. Our children all had to adapt to the Romanian education system ... not an easy task. As Scottish secondary teachers we were embarrassed to find out how good the Romanian system is and how advanced in some subjects compared to the UK.

Johanna is now in her 6th and final year of Medicine (in the future she plans to set up a basic health care programme with our charity), Kenny has just started first year university studying Economic Sciences and Amy is in 11th grade at high school.

Over the years we have had various needy children and young people live with us, including young single mothers and several children. Our latest (and, we hope) permanent addition is Rosanna, a 7 year old orphan. In December last year my mother, Rose came to live in Romania as during her many visits she had come to love the country and our Romanian friends. It's been great for us all, especially the children to have their granny close by and wee Rosie loves her to bits.

We have a husky called Roxi, two cats, Kesara, a beautiful Burmaneze and Tigerlily, a moggie but also beautiful despite recently having to have one of her front legs amputated due to an accident. We also have three guinea pigs and a rabbit ... well, they're really Rosie's and she is generally quite good about feeding them!