Adopta Un Talent; Hope For Institutionalised Children

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 These are just some of the thousands of children left behind. The ones that reached out their hands and begged to be adopted. The ones that, no matter how hard we all tried all those years ago; co-ordinating seminars, meetings with government departments and media interviews etc. nothing changed. So, here they are. Nearly ready to leave the Romanian Child Protection system at aged eighteen with no money, no life skills and no family to support them. You can help. You can sponsor a child through this program- Adopta Un Talent, in conjunction with the program; Desenam Viitorul Tau, which means ” Build Your Future”.
Give these children a chance so they don’t end up on the streets, unemployed and unemployable. Don’t let the girls fall into prostitution, either in Romania or overseas in countries like Spain, just so they can put food in their mouths.
Visinel Balan, pictured, was himself an institutionalised child. Enduring untold hardships. He doesn’t want these children to suffer like he did and has established these programs with the support of the trusted children’s charity; ”Hope and Homes For Children”. You can read about Visinel and his life in another post on this website; Ceausescu’s Children; Eastern Europe’s Troubled Past.










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Where are you coming from, child, and where are you up to? Dear visitor, before you read these lines, I kindly invite you to join me on an imaginary tour. Close your eyes and think back to your days as a child. How were they when you were 7, 12, 17 years old? Who were the people around you who backed you up and helped you grow? Now try to imagine how the beginning of your life would have been without any parents, without any grandparents. You were left alone in the picture, weren’t you? Look at the bright side: this was just an imaginary tour that has ended. For us it did end. But let me introduce you to Andrei, a teenager whom this bleak picture represents the reality of his whole life. Andrei is a kid in Satu Mare, he is a pupil in a highschool of Arts, he is a child full of life and full of color who takes slow but firm steps into adulthood. Behind his honest warm conquering disarming smile, there lies an unbelievable story. Starting off in life as if from nowhere, discovering his limits and his qualities, Andrei would be able to stand tall before any kind of public because the days he was through rewarded him with a medal hard to come by: the medal of courage and fight for life. Unfortunately, the burden on his shoulders is still heavy and constantly weighing him down. I would gladly tell you about his parents, but according to his legal documents, they do not exist. As he saw sunshine on a bright day of June, Andrei was welcome with rejection: his father refused to acknowledge him as a son. His mother brought him into this world, then aborted her mission as a mother and left him in the hospital she had born him. The numerous efforts the State institutions made to reintegrate the child into his biological family failed as the one whom we generically previously called mother demonstrated in court that she was not the one who bore Andrei. A court order coldly states that „the probability of being a mother for the named is zero, therefore she is exempted from being considered Andrei’s mother.”. His first days in life came along with the first knocks at the doors of the placements centers and of maternal assistants. At the end of a 17 years long journey of migrating through the protection system in Romania, Andrei finally found a home in the family of a maternal assistant in Satu Mare. This peaceful home did help Andrei grow up beautifully. All the beauty of his peaceful heart that managed to remain so throughout the many storms is reflected in the works of art Andrei creates. Andrei protected his sensibility and penchant to beauty and esthetics and masterfully transferred them onto canvas. Most of the times though, the canvas is missing, the colors are over, the brushes wear out. Andrei bears inside images and messages that despite not having what to outline and color them with, he still hopes to show them to the world as soon as the situation will allow it. When life gives you one single possible way of hoping and living, yet a few hundreds lei prevent you from putting your dreams on canvas, what other option are you left with? You choose to go towards those around you and tell them about yourself. You tell them you don’t ask for much, just for some canvas, some boards, an un-improvised easel and some oil colors. These are the things Andrei needs for his outer smile to reflect the inner joy of creation and self-expression. Bringing back someone’s stolen childhood may be impossible, however few efforts are required in order to give them a chance to dream and grow on. In Andrei’s case, an ounce of empathy and generosity can make a difference between dream and reality. Should you wish to provide Andrei with the necessary material for painting or with the money to buy the material, you are invited to access the link Adopă talentul. [Adopt the talent] Adoptă un talent is a campaign by which the Association Desenăm Viitorul Tău supports gifted abandoned children and youngsters. Romania scores the greatest number of gifted children among other top countries. Thousands of children fail in Romania’s orphanages due to a lack of support. Now you can adopt a talent. The „Adoptă un talent” / Adopt a talent campaign allows every person or family to adopt a talent by the means of modestly investing into a child’s talent. The person who adopts a talent (an abandoned child) may contribute on a monthly basis (or for as along as he or she wishes) with a modest amount that is meant to provide for an education that is suitable to the development of the talent. The campaign will climax with the „ADOPT A TALENT’’ Gala, an event where we are going to award talents. More is to come. Purpose of the project Provide for the gifted children in placement centers and foster care. Whom do I donate to? To children in placement centers and foster care. Why should I donate? As a team of Desenăm Viitorul Tău / We paint your future, we identify the talent, and the money that is collected will go straightly to the child’s need. We shall buy the necessary material for the talent to develop or we shall directly pay for the corresponding classes or courses. Thousands of children fail based on the lack of self trust. We set our goal to give them wings, and with your help, we shall support each talent.