Project Harvest Hope
Renewing Civil Society in Transylvania
Csehétfalvas
Local Development Agent: Tünde Lőrinczi
Unitarian Minister: Lajos Lőrinczi
Tünde Lőrinczi and Lajos Lőrinczi were Balázs scholars.
We chose to create a room for the dual use of LDA office and for community purposes. This room is an addition to the parish house of our church that once served as a fellowship room. It was in a bad condition and required hard work. With long volunteer hours and the support of PHH, we renewed this room and bought new furniture. Now it is used for an LDA office and for community meetings.
The training that we received helped us learn how to identify and organize the community’s needs. Organized meetings and questionnaires helped us lead the village through a process of thinking, planning and achieving our goals step by step. It is a strategy for building our future together.
We have new electronics for the office; a laptop and a fax machine. We are building connections between the people in the village and the outside world. We are starting to develop rural tourism in the village.
Hopes and Dreams:
First of all we plan to survive. The villagers are mostly elders, but we have some young families who want a future in the village. We want to find the way to create new jobs, to make the started tourism work, to improve infrastructure. We want to establish a guest and community house in the old cultural house, which brings in the village tourists and we can give work for some people. We hope this will bring home some more young couples and the village will have a future.
We believe this program is very important for the village. We know that PHH has the main role in it. We are very grateful for your help. God bless You!
