Elsewhere, the new school year has dropped an unbelievable opportunity into the laps of New Hope International. NHI’s Hank Paulson. “Our Romanian team leader was called to the government official in charge of education in one of the regions; the result of that was a carte blanche for the whole region in Romania, plus a government official saying, “We need to work with Bucharest and get accreditation and approval to get into the schools throughout the country.” ” Paulson says this was the result of much prayer. “The overwhelming thing to us has been that we haven’t even initiated anything. It’s just been in response to the public schools requesting a program to help their kids, with a message of abstinence, meaningful relations connected with Christian values.”