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With a team of 9 we went last week to Deva and Petrojeni in Transsylvania, Romania to visit two orphanages that are run by the ethnic Hungarian minority. We performed a series of Christmas shows, that included clown acts, magic tricks, dance performances, a puppet theatre, lots of music and a pantomime. We brought personally shoes and clothing to the teenage and children orphans and spent individual time with many of them.
Many of the children have been saved out of heart-wrenching situations by the initiative of those that run the network of these specialized orphanages. There is e.g. the Albino-child Kato (see picture bottom left), who was born in Romania and living a few years in adoption with foster parents in Hungary: Because of the law changing she was suddenly being deported back to Romania and haplessly put in an orphanage, where she didn’t understand the language and quickly developed behavioural problems. Finally she found a loving place within the safety of the orphanage in Deva, where she has been the “love-bug” of the community ever since, smiling and cheering up all that are crossing her path. Gheorgina (on the picture next to Kato) also was being found in the slums of Deva, left alone by her parents and is now taken care of by loving caretakers.
