Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Children in Romania






The children of Romania. Many children retreat and live in the sewers where it is warm. Street teams search for and find these orphans and house and feed them with warm clothes and an education, and search for foster homes for them, good homes. There is an outreach program on the streets,also. Note the many services below the project offers:

Children of the street need all of their hungers fed and that is realized. NGO's can play a pivotal role in this regard as this is an international problem prevalent to day and after WWII in the wake of child refugees. That early, Pope PIUS XII in his encyclical Quemamodo(?) states that not attending to this problem is a heinous sin . I could not agree with him more.

Go to this link for resources and get started . I am to start locally on this problem next week in the realm of literacy. Note my posts on the homeless problem as mutli faceted under Soho.



A back-to-school programme via special literacy classes (where needs be) An
annual summer camp in the country or by the sea
Weekly arts and music
therapy
Specialist drama and conflict resolution therapy sessions by a
resident psychologist and visiting specialists
Sports activities via a local
high school sports initiative
Long-term follow-up where children have been
reunited with their families
Drop-in support care to adolescents who have
left our safe house and become independent
An excellent record in campaigning
with the state and other NGO’s for good services and reintegration into school
and the community for former street children








2 comments:

  1. Edward, this is so sad. My gosh! No children should have to suffer -- anywhere!

    Diane Sawyer had a recent documentary on ABC about < a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=6865077&page=1>Children of the Mountains< /a>, about children in the Appalachians. I was shocked.

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  2. Phooey, the link did not work, but it gives you the URL, anyway...

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