Project Harvest Hope
Renewing Civil Society in Transylvania
Recsenyéd
Local Development Agents: Adél Tóth and Edit Nagy
Unitarian Minister: Nagy Adél
The most memorable achievement in our village is the partial recovery of the building where the LDA’s office is. It is an old building formerly used by the community for special occasions. A couple of years ago, a wall burned down rendering the building useless. Now it is rebuilt and the room functions not only as an office but as a place for community events. We are very grateful to have had this help from PHH. Without this, we wouldn’t have been able to save the building from complete destruction. This was only possible by a common, joined effort.
Our biggest dream for the future is to completely recover the building to use it for community events and also to use it as a guest house. We still need to fix the kitchen, the bathroom and the two rooms. We also want to have medical care in the village at least once a week. There are older people who need special care.
The young generation would like to have the bowling place function again.
When we decided to apply for an LDA supported by Harvest Hope, we did it with the hope of moving our community forward. Sometimes it is hard to convince people to accept something when they don’t see the immediate effects. This project did not promise us prompt results but gave us a hope for the future. And now that we are getting closer to finishing the recovery of the building, I can see on people’s faces, the contentment. They see now the first big results and also see the benefit of being in this project. It made us believe strongly that things can be done in order to make changes for the benefit of the community. We have lots of dreams and hopes which we believe can come true.