THEY DON'T WANT TO GO TO ORPHANAGES

THEY DON'T WANT TO GO TO ORPHANAGES
from Realitate.net

Seventy percent of children begging on the street refuse to go into orphanages. One reason is that the law permits them to go into these shelters for a limited number of hours and to leave whenever they want.

On the streets in the summer, there are approximately 2,000 children begging, most of them can be found in Bucharest, Constanta and Timisoara.

The procedure is simple; when the social worker finds a child who has no shelter and who is living by begging, the social worker can guide the child to an orphanage. But in the case where the child does not want to go to the orphanage, the police can intervene. The current law, however, forbids the keeping of that child there against his will. The only solution is that of dialog, but very few of the children are convinced. In any case, the number of vacancies in the orphanages are insufficient for the number of children who have need of such shelter. Child protection services who are responsible for these children and for convincing them to go to the orphanages are under the authority of the local mayor's offices. In other words, the child protection authorities have no legal grounds to give sanctions but rather merely recommendations. This fall programs will be launched to integrate the children into institutions with the financing of these programs coming from abroad