We recently received an email and some photos from some new friends in Romania who are starting up a similar program over there. We are planning on working out a photo sharing program between the Charleston Kids and the Transylvanian Kids. Below you can read the email and check out their photos!

Hello to all the kids in Charleston Kids with Cameras! Our names are Zsofi, Beata, and Renata, and we are happy to share our first photos from your village here in Romania. We hope you like them and that we can share messages about all our photos.

We live in a small village in the hills of Transylvania, which is part of the country Romania. The name is Galesi in Romanian and Nhyaradgalfalva in Hungarian. In this village, we have Romanians, Hungarians, and Gypsies. Most of the people here are farmers, with chickens and pigs in the farmyards. We have cars in our village, but also we have horses that pull wagons. The people in our village do not have much money, but our parents work very hard for what we have.

We three girls are all 10 years old and Hungarian. We speak only in the Hungarian language, but our leader Zsolt Nemet can speak English, so he can translate for us, so that you can understand us.

Our leader Zsolt takes on trips around in our village and around the countryside so that we can take photos. He is a wonderful man and enjoys children. He and his wife have a little girl. They have worked with children in the orphanages and other places.

We hope you like our pictures and that you will ask us questions about them. And we will look at your pictures and talk to you about them. We are lucky to have computers in our village community center, where we can look at our pictures and go on the internet.

click on one of the thumbnails to see the entire album

Good luck to our new friends across the ocean, and we look forward to seeing some more of these fantastic photos!