Children
The Sandu children had a special place to visit, a House of Angels where they would get hot meals and assistance with their homework. And it was at this House of Angels that they watched films of Hansel and Gretel. They were always hoping and dreaming that one day the angels would bring them a cottage like the one in the story.
It is with great joy we announce in September, 2009 we will re-open our doors as an emergency shelter once again. This time we will embrace children with special needs. We will begin with the tiniest and frailest babies from the hospital. We wish to start with these children so we can prevent institutionalization problems right away. So it is official. We are working on the budget now and we will have some emergency needs of our own to get baby care supplies and salaries for staff donated! We will continue to need something we do not have, your full support!
The economic crisis will lead to an increase in the poverty rate in Romania from 5.7% in 2008 to 7.4% this year. Thus, the number of poor people will increase with 369,000 totaling 1.59 million, of which 351,000 children aged 0-14 years old, announced on Tuesday Ileana Savu, president of the National Authority for the Protection of Children’s Rights (NAPCR), quoted by NewsIn.
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