When I personally visited Romania. It was after a major overhaul of the orphanage system. When Romania wanted to join the European Union, the government was forced to fix the institutions.
This news report is from 2006. Please watch this video. It'll give you a little insight to what I'm talking about here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWKQNMZa--Y
I came into it with a woman who had seen the worst, she had seen orphanages tucked away behind mountains with mentally challenged, naked kids in cages and fences. She saw the babies who had been left in their cribs for days untouched, the ones who were very smart and bright but became mentally challenged because of the lack of care and concern for their health. I saw the slightly modified version. The street kids were in much worse conditions, but they were predominately there due to their families homelessness. These were the kids who had never been bathed, the ones who ate only out of dumpsters. These were the kids who slept on cardboard boxes, the ones who fought over dropped rice chips.
Most of my project deals with these kids, but today I came across a news report that covers an aspect I hadn't thought about entirely. It concerns the children that were raised in the Communist orphanage system, the "forgotten generation," that are now adults.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8425001.stm
The conditions for these poor children have not changed! They are just adults in the same position they've been in all their lives.
Here's part of a new one I've been working on. In Progress, me gusta so far.
