a little Philanthropy Please

From watching "Oh Yeah", Nino doesn't shake his hips as well as Aiba.

This is what I've been listening to for the past day.

In 1966, the Ceauşescu regime reversed the 1957 Communist Party decree permitting all abortion, and introduced other policies to increase the very low birth rate and fertility rate - including a special tax amounting to between ten and twenty percent on the incomes of men and women who remained childless after the age of twenty-five, whether married or single. The inability to procreate due to medical reasons did not make a difference. Abortion was permitted only in cases where the woman in question was over forty-two, or already the mother of four (later five) children. Mothers of at least five children would be entitled to significant benefits, while mothers of at least ten children were declared heroine mothers by the Romanian State; few women ever sought this status, the average Romanian family during the communist era having two to three children (see Demographics of Romania). Furthermore, a considerable number of women either died or were maimed during clandestine abortions.

Due to Romania's old President, many children were abandoned because their parents lived in poverty. They have been placed in dirty institutions without adequate attention. In the past, the few people who took care of these kids have limited education levels and were encouraged to believe the kids who were handicapped and malnourished were going to stay in that state forever. They didn't believe that any environmental factors could help.

Those babies who were thought to be healthy were sent to orphanages; those babies who were thought to be disabled stayed in institutions with no clean water, no proper care, no clothes, barely any food, no heat, and no windows. These children were living in their own filth.

Only recently, have psychologists and volunteers gone to these institutions to care for and assist mentally and physically. Now they have some of the bare necessities, but there are still so many institutions that aren't helped. There are still thousands and thousands of children suffering in the world.

To have no one play with them, to have no one feed them, and to have no one to love them...



I will see you little ones in the future.