Wembdon Ladies Group (From Bridgwater Mercury)

Wembdon Ladies Group

10:00am Wednesday 2nd December 2009 in

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“IT’S tough, it’s real” were words often repeated during the talk on November 27 by Reg Hiscox of the Targa Association, as he showed slides and described what it is like to live in Romania.

The winters are extremely cold, the summers extremely hot, and there is little running drinking water or sanitation.

The roads are just muddy tracks.

EU opportunities have enticed the working population away leaving the old and young very vulnerable.

Old women have been found abandoned and frozen solid in the cold winters.

Mr Hiscox had refused accommodation with pastors and teachers and stayed with an old woman in really primitive conditions to experience what it was really like to live there.

The Targa Association is a small group of volunteers from the UK and Hungary, who give support to four villages in the north.

They take no expenses whatsoever and give 100% of money they raise by giving talks, selling crafts and giving concerts etc.

They have helped the locals to improve schools, provide flush toilets (of which the people were frightened at first!), open day centres and provide help where most needed.

Ladies of the group were full of admiration for the dedication and selflessness of Mr Hiscox and the other volunteers of the association.

At the end of his talk he received loud and heartfelt applause and ladies bought craft items provided by Mrs Hiscox.

Sheila Wills gave the vote of thanks.

The meeting on December 11 will be ‘Members’ Memoirs’.

On December 18 the carol service will take place in St George’s Church at 7.30pm when all will be welcome and afterwards for coffee and mince pies in the parish centre.