Street children

Street children are a painful reality of every country in the world. We also find them in Bucharest, Romania, twenty years after the 1989 revolution, like an inheritance of the communist regime. Abandoned in hospitals at birth, they are taken in shelters for children, but most of them end up in the streets, dwelling in the sewers, ruins or any other filthy corner of the city. You can find them everywhere. They live their lives taking drugs, smoking, prostituting or self-injuring. Some of them are given "a helping hand" from the transitory shelters, where they find food, warmth and a soft bed. Others choose "life" and decide to move to permanent shelters for abandoned children, where they receive comfort, support and education. Among those, some are able to rehabilitate themselves and find new families. But these are not so many.

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A homeless man (R) lays on a car in a parking lot near to the "Gara de Nord" railway station. Bucharest, Romania, 4.09.2005.

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Andreea Buduroi, 16 years old, reads a pray on the Sunday Mass on Saint Lazarus Orphanage, a transit center for children who lives on the street. On the orphanage, street children can find hot meal, warm bad and water. Baneasa village, Bucharest, Romania, 4.09.2005.

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Teenagers pray on the Sunday Mass on Saint Lazarus Orphanage, a transit center for children who lives on the street. On the orphanage, street children can find hot meal, warm bad and water. Baneasa village, Bucharest, Romania, 4.09.2005.

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A boy serves bread on Saint Lazarus Orphanage, a transit center for children who lives on the street. On the orphanage street children can find hot meal, warm bad and water. Baneasa village, Bucharest, Romania, 4.09.2005.

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Teenagers have breakfast on Saint Lazarus Orphanage, a transit center for children who lives on the street. On the orphanage, street children can find hot meal, warm bad and water. Baneasa village, Bucharest, Romania, 4.09.2005.

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Teenagers talk on Saint Lazarus Orphanage, a transit center for children who lives on the street. On the orphanage street children can find hot meal, warm bad and water. Baneasa village, Bucharest, Romania, 4.09.2005.

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A boy cleans a room of Saint Lazarus Orphanage, a transit center for children who lives on the street. On the orphanage, street children can find hot meal, warm bad and water. Baneasa village, Bucharest, Romania, 4.09.2005.

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Teenagers play on the yard of Saint Lazarus Orphanage, a transit center for children who lives on the street. On the orphanage, street children can find hot meal, warm bad and water. Baneasa village, Bucharest, Romania, 4.09.2005.

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Children play with a horse on the "Children farm" in Aricesti village, near Ploiesti city, Romania. The children farm is open for children who live on the streets or orphans who accept and follow the rules of the orphanage. Ploiesti, Romania, 10.09.2005.

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Gore Serbana works on the field with his older son Andrei, near to his house in Nedelea village, near Ploiesti city, Romania. Gore is a former street children who succeeded to improve his life conditions. PLoiesti, Romania, 10.09.2005.