No More Missing Romanian Children
BalkanInsight.com reported yesterday that missing children cases in Romania are on the rise.
Over 3,200 children went missing in the last year, which is ten times more than five years ago. About 90% of the children are suspected to have run away from home and foster care voluntarily, sometimes in order to make money on the street.
But Mia’s Children knows exactly what they’ll find on the street: crime, drugs, prostitution and disease.
Many of our youth came from similar circumstances. Some of them were forced to work in crime for money, and some of them left voluntarily to escape the poverty and domestic problems at home.
We try to work with the children as well as their families, because families broken from addiction and poverty are what causes this danger to Romania’s young people the most.
But sometimes the families do not want help. The parents are not ready to beat the addiction, or are abusive, or feel that they cannot provide anything better than the streets for their children.
In that case one thing will always be certain:
No child is missing from God’s sight, and with his help, they can be found and loved again at Mia’s Children.