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Jan Dagø Jyllands-Posten/World Picture Network
"Romania"


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Bobo on the left is just turning 18. He tells me that he has run away from home because of a violent farther. The children pour toxic paint into plastic bags to inhale the fumes this gives a quick high but the price is also severe brain damage. This group of street children is living in the heating channels that run under Bucharest. The heat down in the tunnels are intense and humid, the smell of human waste makes the stomach turn when one enters. The children are living down here because of the cold temperatures during winter in Rumania. They also try to avoid the risk of getting beaten or abused sexually if they try to sleep anywhere above the ground. They tell me that the police also harass them, but that they have never seen any policemen who want to enter the heating tunnels. They live from begging and from parking tips. . Precise figures about how many street children there is in Romania is difficult to obtain, the range is from some hundreds to 10.000.
 

 

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