ABANDONED CHILDREN OF ROMANIA
In the hospitals in Romania there are hundreds of children abandoned by their parents. Healthy babies, who shouldn't be there, completely forgotten by the state...
They are victims of illegalities and inequalities in a country that seems to have no respect for anything anymore...
Because of the lack in personnel, the hospitals abandon these babies even though they earn money because of them!
The Child Protection Organisation ignores them as well, even though it is their responsibility to save them!
Because of this situation, these babies are deprived of their fundamental right of having a family and are being left in their hospital beds.
With wounds because of the swaddling clothes, the feeding bottles they are trying to use alone and a huge need of love and affection.
The Emergency Hospital in Constanta, Romania
The empty and unguarded corridors are echoing the heartbreaking cries of abandoned babies...
It's 6 o'clock in the evening and the visiting program has finished a long time ago.
Without being stopped by somebody, we managed to get inside of one of the hospital rooms with a hidden camera.
The children are alone...
They sit in the dark
And they are crying ...
Because nobody cares about them...
When we turn on the lights in the room, all the crying suddenly stops.
And on the babies faces we can see little smiles...
It's the happiness of not being alone anymore...
They are nobody's children...
...just a few of those 750 babies abandoned in the hospitals in Romania...
...just a few of those 750 babies abandoned in the hospitals in Romania...
And their number will grow larger as we go deeper into the winter.
750 children who start their lives in this way, ALONE
In their little beds to which rarely someone comes near.
They are learning form an early age to be happy with any kind little gesture.
The stories of these children are all different...
