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Romania, Moldova, Ukraine - Eastern Europe

Real Aid works closely with two other charities, Child’s Life and Mission Without Border to develop and increase the amounts of aid sent to Eastern European countries. 

►Children’s Homes

Families in Romania are among the poorest in Europe.  Thousands of children are abandoned each year by parents who cannot afford to feeds or care for them.  Children with mental or physical disabilities face the greatest threat of abandonment.  Government agencies and private charities have built “children’s homes” across Romania in order to take in these homeless children.  These institutions house more than 27,000 children.  They are often under-funded, over-crowded and frequently lack basic needs such as hot water and sanitary supplies.

Each year Real Aid sends dozens of truck loads of goods to these children’s homes.  We provide essentials such as food, clothing and toiletries as well as educational materials and toys to help improve the daily lives of these children. 

►Street Children 

Thousands of children in Romania, especially in the capital of Bucharest, live in the streets.  By day, they beg and steal.  At night, they often turn to prostitution in order to earn money to feed themselves.  Many live in underground tunnels, sniffing glue to get high and find a brief escape from the misery.  Some get pregnant and begin raising new generations of street children.

Real aid is working with local charities to distribute packages of food, clothing and toiletries to children living on the street.  Partnering with these groups, we also are working to ensure younger children go to school and older children learn professional skills needed to find jobs later in life.  We recently delivered dozens of sewing machines to local charities so they could teach teenagers how to make clothes and find jobs as tailors.