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Tileagd Assisted Living Facility

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HISTORY:

Through our considerable experience with Residential Care which started at Cihei in 2010 – we came to realise certain anomalies with the Romanian system we need to work within. One such issue is that as part of our Authorisation to Function as Residential Elderly Care Homes, we are prohibited by law to take residents under the age of 65 years. This has caused us some challenges over the years, as sadly several people are presented to us for help who are living alone, possibly sick and definitely vulnerable – but because they are under 65 years, we could be in trouble with the authorities if we took them into our care.

Unofficially, we were told that, due to there being no facilities for Adult Assisted Living in Bihor County, a ‘blind eye would be turned’’ to one or two ‘under 65’s’ in our facilities. However, it got us thinking!

How could The Smiles Foundation once again lead the way in providing a well documented needed service, without over-stretching our resources and supporters? After all, you – our supporters – provide all we need to do the great work in Romania we are so proud of. Your obedience to God through your giving and amazing generosity, is what makes the difference for us in doing our work.

We didn’t want to launch another £1million /$1.5 million project to build a new facility. We looked at that option to build on land we already own in Cihei – but to build from scratch, as we found with JFL in Salonta – would be a huge pressure for the next few years. SO we thought harder. After a short time, we considered we have an amazing facility already built that was not being fully utilised and with some modification, could serve the proposed purpose.

Architects were consulted, Drawings prepared, and Construction men provided quotes. We concluded that for approximately £100,000 ($130,000) we could remodel part of our Tileagd Complex (built 2005-2008) accommodating the new Adult Assisted Living Facility and still be able to have all our other activities functioning in another part of the large Complex building. So, this is what we did and in January 2017, the work began.

Six months of hard work and extensive redevelopment had the job completed by June 30th, 2017. This was a miracle in itself. The budget was set optimistically, and in reality we spent £120,000 ($156,000) for all the required changes along with equipping and furnishing the new facility.

But with that investment we had another wonderful facility for Residential Care to add to the Smiles portfolio. As planned, the new facility was ready to open on July 1st 2017.

The project provides ‘exactly what it says on the tin’ – Assisted Living (Support for Living) for all adults over 18 years of age who are in need of practical help with daily life.

We have nurses and carers on staff but not all our residents need ‘medical’ care as such, some just require continued support with well established medical issues.

Tileagd Craft Activities

Although the entire facility was ready July 1st, 2017 we intentionally received new residents gradually, so as to get more staff appointed and up to speed with the service we wanted to provide.

Tileagd Assisted Living is Managed by Ligia Cralic (nee Mitra) and ably assisted by Social Worker, Diana Caba.


CURRENT UPDATE:

Many new staff have been appointed and now the project cares for 38 residents, meaning the facility is about full (100%) all the time.  Many residents can only contribute a portion of the monthly cost and the balance needs to be sponsored or raised from supporters.

It costs approximately £500 ($650) per month to support each resident. Some have virtually no income or means to support their care costs. If you can help Tileagd Assisted Living to share the Love of God in such a practical way, please do so today. Whether a one-off donation, a monthly sponsorship or a special fund-raiser – everything will make a huge difference to the care we can provide.

Certain residents come under our Social Case quota. These residents can be specially supported through the webpage:

https://www.thesmilesfoundation.org/residents-needing-support/

Tileagd Assisted Living

This project, and the people who will benefit from it, need your support.

The operating cost for Tileagd Assisted Living is budgeted to be £16,150 ($21,000) per month.

The average cost of caring for a resident in Tileagd Assisted Living is £500 ($650) per month.
(Sponsored residents who leave the facility will have their allocated sponsorship transferred to other residents in need of support)

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