Many children miss their parents who work abroad, but a part of those whose parents are near them choose to live on the street, far from the family. The specialists of placement centers work with every child separately so as to convince them to return home. Even so, the number of children who run away from home or are driven away remains constant, IPN reports.

Natalia Shevchuk, director of the Balti Center for Receiving Children in Emergency Regime “Evrica”, said that about 80 street children are admitted to the center annually, 40% of them being girls. Most of them do not have elementary knowledge such as how to make a bed or how to wash themselves. The center can accommodate daily up to 10 children. They can stay at the center for 3 to 30 days. There are cases when the children are taken home from the placement center the next day.

”Many of the street children come from the neighboring villages and choose to run away from home to a larger town, where they cannot be found easily. There is a boy who comes monthly to the center, even if our psychologists work with him. A part of the girls accommodated at the center were helped to take courses at a vocational school and are now employed,” said the director.

The eldest child at “Evrica” was eight years, while the youngest was not even three. In 2012, the center accommodated 63 street children. Twenty of them returned to the center 3-4 times during the year.