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:: Thank you for visiting the website of The Care Project of Romania.org We at Romania.org are very often contacted by visitors of our website, who are already aware of the immense problems children in Romania are facing. These dear visitors are willing to help. For this reason we set up the website you are just seeing, outlining the situation and giving you the occasion to help.
The Street Children in Romania
Some of
the children are as young as four or five years old, though the majority
are adolescents. On the
streets, the children earn money by begging, stealing, doing menial
tasks or prostitution. They live in small metal containers or card boxes
(1 metre by 1.5 metres) which line some of the sidewalks in Bucharest,
in one of the city's main train stations, the underground or the sewers.
Because Romanian orphanages only accept children up to eighteen and few state programs help young adults, older children often find themselves thrown back on the street. One girl
said she spent most of her life in an orphanage after her impoverished
family abandoned her at birth. When she turned eighteen, she was told
she must leave. "We grew up and they kicked us out!"
About Romania.org´s Care Project We raise funds for a private safe house for homeless children in south east of Romania. Children are provided there with refuge, medical care, food, comfort and education. Links are made to reunite the children with their families or alternatively to find good foster homes. A successful outcome for each child depends on long term support and counseling to families and foster careers.
Though we are a totally private project, we have full support of the Government of Romania (e.g. National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption). We offer food, friendship and support to each child before they are admitted to our refuge. We also provide "drop-in" day care facilities for children who do not wish to be admitted so that they still have access to medical care, showers, food and support services. The project also delivers
Our project offers solutions that are sensitive to each child's needs
and wishes - whether this be reintegration with their family, fostering,
adoption or long term care with us.
Donations are the quickest and simplest way to give your support. All of our work targets the poorest of the poor, the homeless children of Romania. Here are some examples of the good your money can do:
Any donation you could give, large or small, will make a real difference to a child in need in Romania.
We guarantee that 100% of any donation from a member of the public goes directly to Romania, because our administration costs are funded separately. If you have questions about The Care Project of Romania.org, please click here to contact us...
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There
are no accurate figures on the number of street children in Romania,
but it is estimated that only in the capital of Bucharest alone, there
are between three and five thousand children living on the streets and
over nine thousand in the entire Romania. As Romania's notorious institutions
are being closed down, the numbers are on the increase. 
Our
teams work on the streets together with the Department of Child Protection
in an outreach program. It identifies homeless children very early in
their life on the street before they succumb to the inevitable risks
of substance abuse and criminality. 
Please
help!