The Forgotten Youth
After the fall of communism in 1991, as a country Romania had one of the highest number of orphans. Adding to this hardship a large number of the orphans had disabilities. After the age of 18, most of the orphanages were either run by nonprofits or a very few by the government. Most of these orphanages did not have enough space to house the disabled orphans or even access to basic hygienic things. As one of the first projects within Romania that RMC had started was The Forgotten Youth project. Here we supported numerus orphanages that housed disabled orphans. With each orphanage we took them out to various locations to where they were taught about the Bible, the various surrounding location and also provided them with clothes, personal hygienic things and books for reading. RMC also created a foster care system for the disabled orphans and the first implementation saw 200 children find housing and families to care for them.