" of street children there were during the Ceausescu regime, only then you could not see why they went out alone at night, otherwise the police would have arrested them." So says Sorina Friars, a psychologist, who worked from 2001 to 2008 with the Foundation Parada, the NGO founded in 1996 in Bucharest by the French-Algerian clown Miloud Oukili and made famous by a film by Marco Pontecorvo came out last fall. Insegnado circus art to 'vagabonds' in Bucharest, the foundation has managed to rip off the street, hundreds of children and young people.
sprout from anything, often holding a plastic bag that lead to the mouth frequently to sniff a substance that penetrating odor and immediately gives the head, the Aurolac (hence the name by which they are usually called 'aurolaci' ). It is an economical paint, they pay a bit 'in the bag and sniff for a moment to forget the pangs of hunger and cold.
Invisibility is in the nature of life that condocuno, but the phenomenon is less common than we in the West. An estimate published quanche days ago by an NGO talks about 1270 children are currently residents in the streets of the capital, "but in the past, after the revolution and until the early of this decade, were also 5000 ", says the association. Stating: "they are called street children, but among them there are runaway children who have now become adults and have children."
The path that brought them into the street is similar but not identical. The common denominator is poverty and violence, large families, the counselor continues, "have lost their homes to debt. Many are from the country and especially from Moldova, one of the poorest areas of the country. As Mihai, who is 20 years old and after a childhood on the streets has been taken into care by Catholic institutions and now studies architecture. He told of the violence suffered at home by his father, the main reason that prompted him to seek refuge in the street. "Others fled the orphanages, where they suffered violence by older boys. In Bucharest live in groups, each with a well-defined, "adds the Friars.
are commonly associated with sewers, but not really live in the sewers but in culverts that through huge pipes carry hot water in apartments in the capital. Underground labyrinth built during the years of Communist dictatorship and now is a stay warm during the cold winters in Romania. In the summer outdoors in the parks are, hence also the label 'boskettari', although the term in the collective imagination of the inhabitants of Bucharest is linked to practices of prostitution, then that is one of the devices with which street children procure the money. "Alin is little more than a child has contracted HIV from a sexual relationship with a foreign sex tourists," he tells the Friars. It concludes: "Not everyone lives down the street. One of them live with their parents, that day led them to beg or to wash windshields at intersections. The government and the municipality does not do almost anything, spend a monthly benefit to families is slight. The only concrete and active NGOs in this field. "
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