Camelia Cismaru
Director

Camelia (“Cami”) Cismaru was born in the small town of Dobrun, Romania – the town where the House of Hope Children’s Home is located.  Cami’s entire family has been supportive of her efforts in founding the Children’s Home and Denisa Care Center.  Her parents even offered their house as a temporary home until the House of Hope Children’s Home was constructed, so that the babies rescued from the government orphanage had a place to live.

Prior to coming to Kids Alive International in September 1998, Cami was a substitute teacher, teaching the Romanian language and literature, and was also a Romanian language teacher and translator for English-speaking missionaries. In 2007 she obtained her Bachelor Degree in Social Work at the University of Sociology and Social Assistance in Bucharest.

As Kids Alive Romania field Director, Cami shares, “There is not more rewarding work in this world than working with children.  God calls us to be like little children if we want to enter the Kingdom of God.  I believe that by being close to the children, we can grow closer to God; by loving the children, we love God; and by teaching the children, we teach ourselves to be like them”.