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Singureni, Giurgiu. Showing Up Where the System Stops

Published on

Jul 14, 2025

Updated on

Jul 14, 2025

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We spent time at the elderly care center in Singureni, where true support begins with presence and continues through steady commitment

Nothing feels urgent in Singureni. The center runs on time. Meals arrive. The beds are made. On the surface, everything seems to work. And yet, something remains still. As if the place itself is holding its breath.

We didn’t find crisis. We found repetition. Days folding into each other without variation, without pause, without someone to truly witness them. The care exists, but there are not enough people to offer it in the way it’s needed. One person carries too many roles. A nurse who becomes a cleaner, a companion, a voice of comfort, all within the same hour. There is no room for rest.

We didn’t arrive with a solution. We came to be present. To notice what routines don’t show. To understand what isn’t written in contracts or covered by supply chains.

We offered what we could: more time, more hands, a slower pace. Not to fix the system, but to soften the weight it places on those who are already giving all they have.

This kind of care doesn’t appear all at once. It takes returning. It takes listening. And it begins by not looking away.

Our Support

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What we brought wasn’t a project. It was a response. We stepped into a place where everything was held together just enough to survive, but not enough to feel supported. We stayed, so the pressure could ease, even briefly.

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This is how we continue. Not by offering answers, but by remaining close, long enough for trust to settle, and for silence to feel less heavy.

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OpenSoul Foundation was here.

Isaiah 46:4

“Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.”

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