Giurgiu: The Starting Point of Happiness Map

Starting this June, every month we’ll reach places where few dare to look.

We’ll mark them not just with presence, but with pins on a growing map of care.

Each pin represents a promise kept. A place where someone stopped to ask: What do you truly need?

This is the Happiness Map: a series of monthly interventions in orphanages and elderly homes across Romania’s most overlooked counties.

A journey shaped by consistency, not charity. And by one clear commitment: we will return.

The first pin was placed at CTF Dunării, a family-type home in Giurgiu.

A county with too few resources and even less visibility.

Here live children whose needs go far beyond the surface.

While food and essentials are often offered, the real discomfort lay elsewhere: broken furniture, missing appliances, rooms that felt cold and impersonal.

So that’s where we began.

We brought in sofas, wardrobes, a large table for shared meals.

We installed kitchen furniture, delivered cookware, a toaster, a mixer.

Every item chosen not as a donation, but as a way to restore belonging: to give them back the comfort that had slowly vanished.

This is only the beginning.

Each pin on the Happiness Map will stand for more than a visit. It will be a return point.

Real care doesn't come and go. It lingers. It builds. It returns.

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,

for the rights of all who are destitute.

Speak up and judge fairly;

defend the rights of the poor and needy.”

— Proverbs 31:8-9

Happiness Map has begun.

First pin: CTF Dunării, Giurgiu.

OpenSoul Foundation, was here.