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News Release from: Marley Eternit
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 May 2004
Eternit Building Materials Help Romanian
Orphans
Dozens more orphans in Romania are to get a safe roof over their heads thanks in part to Eternit Building Materials.
The company has donated a second load of fibre cement slates to the Romania Challenge Appeal through West Midlands Fire Service which is sending a 38-strong team out there on May 8th to build two houses This year's donation of 6,500 600x300mm slates will be laid on a duo-pitch roof over nine days by a team led by fire-fighter Sean McMenamin who was a roofer before he joined the emergency services and now also runs his own construction company
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The two 10x19-metre, single-storey houses will each feature six bedrooms, a communal kitchen and dining room, two bathrooms and boiler room.
They will enable 30 youngsters to move out of an institution where daily mental, physical and sexual abuse is commonplace, to the charity's headquarters on a 500-acre farm in Siret, on the border with the Ukraine.
Building work on the farm began last year and has already transformed the orphans' lives.
The ultimate aim is that the homes will provide jobs for the youngsters and become self-financing through the sale of crops and hens eggs.
Volunteers from the West Midlands Fire Service and local communities have been travelling to Romania every year for 12 years to help provide basic facilities for the children who suffer varying degrees of disability.
Eternit supplied fibre cement slates last year for the first buildings erected on the farm.
This year's £37,000 construction work should be complete in two weeks although the visit has taken eight months to plan.
Sean worked with Eternit slates when he was a roofer and knew their light weight would be ideal on three fronts - for transportation by truck across Europe to Romania, for the structure of the buildings out there, and for the climate which is more extreme than in the UK.
"The young people from the institution will always be mentally and physically scarred by the surroundings they have been forced to live in and by the way they have been abused but to see the achievements of those who have been brought out with the help of companies like Eternit is unbelievable," said Sean.
cMike Beale, southern sales manager for Eternit's slates division, said: "Although the revolution was 15 years ago, these children are still in desperate need. Request free introductory details about products from Marley Eternit ...
Eternit considers itself privileged to be in a position to help.".
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