The staff at the facility in Baicoi had limited experience caring for children with disabilities before the group arrived. UNICEF, neighboring centers and the community stepped up to help. Children's ...

Vulnerable children under the care of the Romanian state are up to 15 times more likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, than other Romanian children, sparking ...

Life doesn’t wait for these children…. We understand that this country has problems but we are one of the problems and we need a share of the attention. We need them to listen to us. —Ioana A. (not ...

Mioara stands on her doorstep in rural Romania, an infant clinging tightly to her neck and a toddler attached to each leg. The 36-year-old Roma woman is the mother of eight. Her two oldest children ...

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania -Soldiers from Task Force 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment hosted Romanian school-children with a display of military equipment and vehicles in a Children's ...

A Romanian girl, former sex slave, looks out in a shelter in Romania in this 2006 file picture. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel BUCHAREST, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maria was only nine when her ...

Lina Jammal knew her son Sam was musical. When he was a small boy, he would jump up on the sofa and sing along with the celebrities on the radio or television, using a hairbrush as a microphone. Now ...

NUCSOARA — Sometimes, one simple test can change a life. Dozens of Romanian children had their eyes examined for the first time in a remote area of the southern Carpathian Mountains. The humanitarian ...

BALACIU, Romania (Reuters) - Desperate parents are fleeing the poverty of Romania's countryside in search of work elsewhere in the European Union, leaving their children behind to be cared for by ...

When Ukrainian refugee children arrived in Prahova, Romania, local kids organized a welcome party to help them feel at home. Local children in Prahova, Romania, visited a refugee reception center to ...

Mioara stands on her doorstep in rural Romania, an infant clinging tightly to her neck and a toddler attached to each leg. The 36-year-old Roma woman is the mother of eight. Her two oldest children ...