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Thank you so much for your support! Your faithfulness and commitment to this organization is transforming lives and affecting change that will impact generations to come. Pictured below is one of our staff members, Marius, visiting a handicapped orphanage located near our Village of Hope project outside of Bucharest. This orphanage is just one of our many outreaches to the orphaned and abandoned children of Romania. |
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| According to a recent article published on May 10th, 2006 by Reuters, “thousands of children with mental disabilities (in Romania) face the prospect of a life-time segregated from society in abusive facilities”. Unfortunately, even after 16 years following the fall of Communism in Romania, conditions have only somewhat improved in the area of child protection. “Disabled children suffer without proper food and care at state-run institutions despite the country’s vast child protection reforms,” according to the report by investigators. After visiting numerous facilities, investigators stated that “the children were…emaciated. Their spindly arms and legs were twisted into contorted positions from disuse and atrophy.” Other investigators spoke of “children confined to cribs or tied in bed sheets and covered in feces and sores, and of an ‘eerie silence’ in wards where babies had little contact with caregivers.” Here at Orasul Sperantei (City of Hope) we are
blessed to have staff and caregivers who have devoted their lives
to bring some relief to these children as well as countless other
children who still live on the streets and in the sewers. We are
blessed, too, to have compassionate and generous donors like you
who support us in our efforts to bring hope and healing to these
lost and often forgotten children. May God bless your giving! Your Partner , |