Blogul unui om care face reforma sistemului de protecție a copilului din 1997
Tonight, at the National Military Club, an event announcing Alexandru Tomescu, the violin player, as HHC Romania Ambassador. We will be accompanied by very special people. We will talk about the projects we plan together with Alexandru, over the years to come. Together, stronger, for the children of Romania.
After 10 years of partnership, ARK - Absolute Return for Kids continues the road with us for another two years. Together, we brought our contribution to transforming the way children are cared for in Romania. What do we want now? We want to see structural funds used to develop family-based social services.
We want to see a law preventing child separation from family.
We want all old-state institutions for children closed by 2020.
We want to come across children who can live their childhood as close to a family environment as possible.
We want to meet youngsters able to take a graduation diploma when they end secondary school.
We want to come across youngsters able to be independent when they leave the childcare system.
We want families who wish to adopt a child - able to do so.
We want a system based around children, not around other so-called priorities.
Together, HHC/ARK have the vision of a world in which every child can enjoy life in a family. And we believe this can actually happen.
Three ballots of clothing, one ballot of toys, three big boxes of baby lotion, one big box of nappy rash cream, three big boxes of soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste, one big box of feeding bottles: these are the presents of Rotary International Great Britain and Ireland for the children in the families we support.
Year by year, Rotary International brings a lorry full of toys, clothes and household items for the children we work with. There are 12 years since their first shipment. We thank them for their help!
November 20 was very special in the lives of a few youngsters we work with. Monica, Lucica, Doru, Nicu and Mihai were, for a day, in the company of His Excellency, Jean-Hubert Lebet, Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation, Daniel Constantin, Minister of Agriculture, Denisa Patrascu, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Labour, Razvan Cotovelea, Secretary of State in the Ministry of European Affairs, and Elena Tudor, Director of Child Protection in the Ministry of Labour. We thank them for being open to our initiative to spend time with youngsters in Maramures county. The interaction with successful people motivated the children. Such meetings help them find the inner strentgh to complete school studies, to learn for their diplomas, to behave with dignity and to find meaning in life, in crucial times in their lives.
This is how A Day with You project came to be: the youngsters in the childcare system spend a day with personalities, in their usual activities. They do things with them. They can, for a day, see their activity. They can understand success is earned with sweat and work and efforts. They feel part of something valuable and, after such experiences, can say they lived a day of an ambassador"s live. We thank Terre des Hommes, for their initiative in creating the framework for this project!
If you are 13, if you grow up in a divided family, if you live close to a mother who uses her body as merchandise - what can you learn about the world around you? If you get into a children"s home, maybe you forget some of your tormented past. But a lifetime, the habits, the memories remain. Then, so it happens that the young girl shows to be easy going. She uses her body herself, she sells herself. Who wonders why? All you see is the childcare system unable to look after the young girl. How can you be careful, when the girl grew up in emotional and sexual abuse, in a sick environment - but who cared about that? As long as the children are behind doors, with "parents", nobody cares what happens in there, how much drama there is, how much children are used, exploited, for begging, or used to the promiscuity of to small an appartment to offer the luxury of a wall separating one room from the other.
And then, they grow up considering such promiscuity as normality. We, the community, are amazed and shocked when things come out in the open, and we throw guilt on the "Childcare system". Like a childcare system could sort out everything, when you are not allowed to hire staff, when staff leave, humiliated with a monthly income equal to a social care benefit.
Yes, the young girl is a victim.A victim of a sick society, we are all part of. A society we tolerate, shrugging our shoulders. Others are to be blamed for the drama taking place around us. We have to find scape-goats. In all this time, other young girls, other destinies, are tormented in the trencher of a sick system, protecting anything else, but children.