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Frontline Focus Series
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| Children's Voices - Are you listening? |
Romania: Still Paying the Price |
Being an Afghan Girl |
From courageously sharing their own stories, raising awareness on human trafficking, or advocating for peace in their violent societies; children and youth across World Vision's Middle East, Eastern European and Central Asia region are changing their world.
Hear their voices and join them in making that change.
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Two years as an EU country and 20 years after Communism, home-alone children, farmers and the 1 in 4 children attending high-school in rural Romania, continue to pay a heavy price; often the price of hearts. In the midst of them Europe's largest minority, the Roma, face a harsh reality of exclusion, stigma and severe poverty.
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Illiteracy, drought and tradition conspire against them.
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| Micro Credit vs. Poverty |
Refugee Children |
Children on the Edge |
| Access to capital scores big wins for families and communities.
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As many as 5 million children are refugees in an area from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush. |
Children with special needs are the most likely kids to turn up in government institutions.. |
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| AIDS in Russia |
Iraqi Children Trapped |
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| Russia is experiencing the fastet growing HIV and AIDS epidemic in Europe. |
2-million Iraqis have fled their country and are scattered throughout Middle East. |
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Education for one in four
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Fifty years of Communism left Romania’s rural communities shattered, steeped in a culture of mistrust and suspicion.
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Hope was reborn after the revolution of 1989, but many Romanians still live in hope for prosperity 20 years on. With accession to the EU, has it finally arrrived?
By 2013, 30 billion Euros in EU assistance will have been poured into Romania. Two years into this process, familiies in rural areas speak of little change to their lives. For their children, office statistics reveal a significant increase in high school enrollement, yet only one out of the four children introduced here attend high school.
What stops the other three?
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The potential of Romania’s agricultural sector is going unrealized, a situation threatening to deny millions of small farmers the prosperity others are realizing since EU membership in 2007.
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Better salaries mean better futures for families except when a better job means leaving the country. Then the children are vulnerable to Home Alone Syndrome.
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As European governments work together during the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005–2015, David Ward's portraits of the Roma in Romania provide an intimate insight to Europe's largest minority group.
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