Dörthe Hagenguth - photography

Euro-Orphans in Romania

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To be considered as flexible and leave your home country to find a job is taken for granted nowadays. But what happen if parents go out for years without being able to take their children along? In many East-European countries so-called Euro-orphans grow up with their grandparents, relatives or neighbours. 
 
In Romania - as one of the poorest nation of the EU - UNICEF counts 125.000 children who live without parents, because both, father and mother, left home as migrant workers. Especially in Lipovu, a village in the poor South West of Romania, live quite a few.