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2010-12-03, 03:21pm Bryan DeBlanc

They have cars, too

Doug made me take pictures of all the mules and buggies we saw. Altogether, I took over 10 until I gave up...we had seen enough. Here is Doug's favoriteMore

2010-12-03, 11:20am Bryan DeBlanc

Many of the houses are crooked and many look like ghost towns. When I asked why, I was told that the government instructed the banks to immediately cease granting loans to people to build their houses in 2008. If you were building a house (and there was lots of construction), you were no longer able to continue drawing on the committed loans in o ...More

2010-12-03, 11:20am Bryan DeBlanc

Our hosts - special people

When you describe someone as "special", this can be interpreted in many ways. Indeed, the people who have decided to dedicate their lives to supporting Papageno are special. I got the impression that they were doing fine in Switzerland, but ... for some reason decided it was time to leave and do something else. Life in CH was going nowhere. In ...More

When you describe someone as "special", this can be interpreted in many ways. Indeed, the people who have decided to dedicate their lives to supporting Papageno are special. I got the impression that they were doing fine in Switzerland, but ... for some reason decided it was time to leave and do something else. Life in CH was going nowhere. In Romania, they are treated very specially. They get invited to concerts, get to meet city officials, etc. In CH, they would have just been normal Bürger. This picture is of one of the founders of Papageno, who has been in Romania since 2002 and has no intention of leaving.

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2010-12-03, 11:20am Bryan DeBlanc

Contradictions everywhere

The Papageno Stiftug tries to do a lot with very little. One initiative is to build a kind of old folks home for needy older (ladies, I believe). While Papageno is just trying to spend some CH100,000 for this facility, the government has come up with its own plans and these would call for nearly CHF1.2 million for the same facility. It would be ...More

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2010-12-03, 11:20am Bryan DeBlanc

It's hard to give stuff away - fairly

Collecting clothes in Switzerland was the easy part. But try getting them to Romania and then distributing them fairly. The Papageno Stiftung receives 10 truckloads (large 40 tonners) of clothes, foodstuffs, etc. every year. These have to be shipped - across borders. Then sorted - in a "logistics center" (just a house with a couple of barns - ve ...More

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