1 00:00:01.20 --> 00:00:07.16 I used to spend my money on whores, alcohol and cigarettes. 2 00:00:07.20 --> 00:00:12.64 Now my money goes to my six kids, my wife and the house built with the help of God. 3 00:00:48.52 --> 00:00:50.68 My name is Mariana Rica Manea. 4 00:00:50.72 --> 00:00:56.64 I am 35, I have three children and I have lived here for 25 years. 5 00:00:56.68 --> 00:01:00.72 With no electricity, my situation is very difficult 6 00:01:00.92 --> 00:01:04.80 I don't even have basic household things. 7 00:01:04.84 --> 00:01:09.52 I can't provide for my kids. 8 00:01:11.52 --> 00:01:14.16 My only wish is to have electricity. 9 00:01:13.96 --> 00:01:16.60 Who can help me with that? 10 00:01:16.64 --> 00:01:20.24 That's the only thing I wish for. 11 00:01:21.96 --> 00:01:25.96 During the day, the kids can play. 12 00:01:26.00 --> 00:01:30.56 But the evening is the best time to study. 13 00:01:30.60 --> 00:01:35.84 It's quiet, but it's difficult for them to do their homework since we have no electricity. 14 00:01:41.56 --> 00:01:44.20 The mayor promised to connect it. 15 00:01:44.76 --> 00:01:46.64 So did the previous mayor, 20 years ago. 16 00:01:53.68 --> 00:01:57.08 We live a poor life. No electricity, no nothing. 17 00:01:57.20 --> 00:01:59.28 We are just so poor. It's hard to get food. 18 00:01:59.32 --> 00:02:01.08 We can barely make ends meet. 19 00:02:01.12 --> 00:02:05.36 I pray that God takes me in the middle of the night. 20 00:02:05.40 --> 00:02:08.88 "I am so fucking drunk!" 21 00:02:08.92 --> 00:02:11.32 This village is such a difficult place to live. 22 00:02:14.40 --> 00:02:18.80 It doesn't compare to Fântânele, which is more fun, more beautiful and livelier. 23 00:02:18.84 --> 00:02:26.08 People there are more polite. This place is just ugly. 24 00:02:26.12 --> 00:02:31.76 I would love to live in Fântânele. It has electricity and everything else I desire. 25 00:02:35.64 --> 00:02:40.28 "We have called you so many times God! Holy Emperor! 26 00:02:40.32 --> 00:02:46.28 You have always answered our prayers! 27 00:02:48.60 --> 00:02:54.24 Hallelujah! Glory to you God! 28 00:02:58.24 --> 00:03:04.04 We thank you for your presence, God!" 29 00:03:04.32 --> 00:03:09.44 Today there are about 1,400-1,500 families in Fântânele. 30 00:03:09.56 --> 00:03:13.28 What is special about our village is that we have all been saved. 31 00:03:15.36 --> 00:03:20.12 Us Pentecostals are not allowed to curse or drink. 32 00:03:20.56 --> 00:03:23.92 That is why the village is so peaceful and quiet. 33 00:03:23.96 --> 00:03:26.20 And God works with such great power here. 34 00:03:26.68 --> 00:03:32.28 The difference betwen the village today and how it was 35 years ago is phenomenal. 35 00:03:39.96 --> 00:03:49.20 We had bars and clubs and the worst kind of people here in Fântânele. 36 00:03:59.24 --> 00:03:56.28 There were scandals and street fights with knives and axes. 37 00:03:56.32 --> 00:04:01.04 I remember how it was. I was a child then. 38 00:04:01.92 --> 00:04:06.76 But one-by-one, God closed down the bars. 39 00:04:07.32 --> 00:04:13.36 Today, there is no alcohol here and no violence. 40 00:04:14.60 --> 00:04:20.04 "We have been hurt and down. 41 00:04:20.08 --> 00:04:27.72 But somebody from the sky came down and took our sins upon himself." 42 00:04:28.48 --> 00:04:31.80 There's nothing for the police to do here. 43 00:04:31.84 --> 00:04:40.12 They see disciplined and educated people, not like in other Roma villages. 44 00:04:40.48 --> 00:04:50.16 "Let him touch you. Let him touch you. Let him touch you and you will be saved." 45 00:04:50.56 --> 00:05:05.80 "Let him touch you. Let him touch you. Let him touch you and you will be saved." 46 00:05:14.92 --> 00:05:20.40 My name is Dumitrache Constantin. I have six children. 47 00:05:30.04 --> 00:05:42.04 Before becoming Pentecostal, I was a womaniser and a drunkard.  48 00:05:45.60 --> 00:05:48.96 I never brought home the money I earned. 49 00:05:49.92 --> 00:05:58.68 I spent it all in bars and on women and other things against God's will. 50 00:06:07.08 --> 00:06:13.40 I didn't care about my kids and family because my mind was lost. 51 00:06:13.36 --> 00:06:21.36 I didn't know God and had no idea how to have a healthy mind to work for my kids and family. 52 00:06:25.36 --> 00:06:28.48 "Let her stay there. She was misbehaving." 53 00:06:35.16 --> 00:06:47.08 The money you spend on alcohol, cigarettes and guilty pleasures is wasted. 54 00:06:51.52 --> 00:07:00.40 That money could go to buy bread, clothing, notebooks or a backpack for school. 55 00:07:00.44 --> 00:07:05.64 All the money could go into fulfilling your children's needs. 56 00:07:04.48 --> 00:07:08.60 Now we do that with the money we earn. 57 00:07:09.04 --> 00:07:14.84 Bless my wife, God and take care of her! 58 00:07:14.88 --> 00:07:18.88 We thank you for watching over us today! 59 00:07:19.08 --> 00:07:22.80 A telephone like this. An iPhone. A tablet. 60 00:07:22.84 --> 00:07:29.48 I learned to use computers in school. We have lots of computers there. 61 00:07:30.40 --> 00:07:36.04 My kids are healthier and go to school since I've been saved.  62 00:07:36.08 --> 00:07:43.72 They listen to me and my wife and we have any problems with them now. 63 00:07:58.44 --> 00:08:03.64 When we arrived in the community, 64 00:08:04.12 --> 00:08:09.12 the family lived in a one-room house with a dirt floor. 65 00:08:09.16 --> 00:08:15.00 The kids missed school because they didn't have shoes. 66 00:08:18.96 --> 00:08:23.04 I heard they received help to build a bigger house. 67 00:08:25.76 --> 00:08:27.12 All the brothers helped me with money. 68 00:08:30.28 --> 00:08:33.52 We are commited to helping whoever needs our financial support. 69 00:08:38.44 --> 00:08:41.64 Since then I've noticed significant change. 70 00:08:41.92 --> 00:08:47.28 The kids are well-behaved. They bring their supplies to school and do their homework. 71 00:08:51.16 --> 00:08:56.56 Drowsy birds at even gliding, Round about their nests alight, In among the branches hiding . . . 72 00:08:56.80 --> 00:08:58.76 What poem is this? 73 00:09:00.72 --> 00:09:02.68 Re? Ve? 74 00:09:03.72 --> 00:09:00.72 Revedere. That is the poem's title. 75 00:09:06.76 --> 00:09:11.80 I don't believe they missed a day of school this year. 76 00:09:12.56 --> 00:09:19.04 They are the first to get to school. At 8 a.m. they are here, even if it's raining or snowing. 77 00:09:23.60 --> 00:09:31.52 I worked at another school with Roma kids and they would frequently miss classes. 78 00:09:31.56 --> 00:09:35.72 A lot of them dropped out of school. 79 00:09:35.76 --> 00:09:41.72 Girls got married when they were 10 or 11 years old and were forbidden to attend school. 80 00:09:42.28 --> 00:09:46.88 The student's notebooks! Good Solomon! That's the correct answer. 81 00:09:47.12 --> 00:09:53.64 Here, on the contrary, parents insist that their kids attend school at least through 8th grade. 82 00:10:12.96 --> 00:10:16.44 I look for work every day to try to make ends meet.  83 00:10:18.24 --> 00:10:26.00 A whole day spent picking potatoes, loading and unloading bags of potatoes. 84 00:10:27.60 --> 00:10:31.76 It is very hard to find work. Some days I do and some days I don't. 85 00:10:31.80 --> 00:10:37.16 When I can't find work, I don't know if I'll be able to feed my kids. 86 00:10:37.20 --> 00:10:42.76 I am under a lot of pressure, always worrying if I'll be able to feed my kids. 87 00:10:43.80 --> 00:10:53.68 Whenever I leave to work I pray to God to take care of my kids while I am away. 88 00:10:57.36 --> 00:11:01.80 I stopped going to school as mummy couldn't make ends meet. 89 00:11:03.60 --> 00:11:07.52 I had to stay home and taek care of my younger sister. 90 00:11:10.32 --> 00:11:17.48 I take care of my baby sister, help grandma cook, wash, clean the house and take out water from the well. 91 00:11:17.52 --> 00:11:22.28 I do whatever is necessary around the house. 92 00:11:23.04 --> 00:11:27.00 My dad died and then my mother remarried. 93 00:11:28.52 --> 00:11:32.84 She got pregnant, but the baby's father left. 94 00:11:33.76 --> 00:11:41.44 When he was sober, he would help around the house, but he was a drunkard and an asshole. 95 00:11:43.08 --> 00:11:47.12 He fought with her. It was like something you have never seen before. 96 00:11:47.16 --> 00:11:50.44 He would get so drunk that he'd fall down screaming on the road. 97 00:11:49.16 --> 00:11:52.52 He was nothing but trouble. I told him to get the fuck out of here. 98 00:11:58.04 --> 00:12:02.84 If he had been Pentecostal, things would have been different. 99 00:12:02.24 --> 00:12:09.00 I would have stayed in school and life would have been better. 100 00:12:11.80 --> 00:12:16.48 "I need to baptize you soon, to get you in the water." 101 00:12:17.56 --> 00:12:21.40 I stood up in front of the people in church and this is what I told them. 102 00:12:21.44 --> 00:12:25.76 Brothers, we are pretty well off. God has taken care of us. 103 00:12:27.44 --> 00:12:33.60 We have recently visited Alunișu, which is nearby, and the situation is bad. 104 00:12:33.64 --> 00:12:38.40 The community is very poor and what we have seen is unbelievable. 105 00:12:38.44 --> 00:12:42.64 There is no comparison between what we have and how little they have. 106 00:12:44.56 --> 00:12:49.80 They need our help: food, clothing, shoes... anything. 107 00:12:50.72 --> 00:12:55.96 It was one of those days when I had no food for my kids. 108 00:12:56.00 --> 00:13:00.56 God sent them to me. 109 00:13:02.28 --> 00:13:06.48 We explained that we had been bad, that we had ignord the word of God. 110 00:13:06.52 --> 00:13:10.04 We drank, we cursed. 111 00:13:10.40 --> 00:13:17.16 And because of our good deeds, they started to believe in Jesus. 112 00:13:18.52 --> 00:13:22.68 Then I decided to be saved and committed to Jesus. 113 00:13:22.48 --> 00:13:26.24 A month ago I decided I wanted to be baptised. 114 00:13:27.84 --> 00:13:33.76 And when she gets baptised, there will be a change in her family 115 00:13:33.80 --> 00:13:41.36 without help from the government or foreign aid. 116 00:13:41.40 --> 00:13:52.36 "Today I learned of your glory and of your forgiveness." 117 00:13:52.76 --> 00:13:56.72 Here religion plays a much more important role than European programs. 118 00:13:55.80 --> 00:14:00.24 Religion supported the European programs. 119 00:14:00.28 --> 00:14:06.52 Those projects made it possible for schools and teachers to provide education to Roma students. 120 00:14:06.56 --> 00:14:12.80 But education is not only about school, it's also about what you learn at home. 121 00:14:13.00 --> 00:14:18.72 If you consider that the European approach comes from top to down, from the Commission 122 00:14:19.24 --> 00:14:21.80 following a European strategy and then national strategies, 123 00:14:21.84 --> 00:14:26.20 The Pentecostal and neo-protestant approach is the other way. 124 00:14:26.24 --> 00:14:30.08 It's bottom-up which is good because you see firsthand all the problems 125 00:14:30.12 --> 00:14:32.20 and you can deal directly with the problems there. 126 00:14:42.24 --> 00:14:48.20 As time goes by, my life is improving. 127 00:14:48.24 --> 00:14:55.08 I feel close to God and God is next to me. I feel it! 128 00:15:01.84 --> 00:15:07.72 If the brothers see a change in the next few years when she returns to God... 129 00:15:07.84 --> 00:15:12.44 And they will see many changes... 130 00:15:12.56 --> 00:15:15.64 Then we will get the entire village to attend. 131 00:15:15.68 --> 00:15:18.56 Then folks will understand the work of God. 132 00:15:21.64 --> 00:15:22.96 "Peace to you, my brother!" 133 00:15:23.76 --> 00:15:28.88 If people see a change in their neighbour, 134 00:15:27.76 --> 00:15:38.00 for example, someone who drank so much that he couldn't work, 135 00:15:38.04 --> 00:15:42.48 And now they see him working, then they will also change. 136 00:15:42.52 --> 00:15:46.76 It's a slow process. You can't topple a tree with only one swing of a hatchet. 137 00:15:54.32 --> 00:15:57.32 I heard so many promises. 138 00:15:57.36 --> 00:16:00.92 But nothing has changed. 139 00:16:00.96 --> 00:16:05.56 There is no cure for poverty.