Republic of Abandoned Children: Desperate Moldovans Head West without Families

[sysop]

Moldova was a relatively prosperous republic when it was still part of the Soviet Union. But now its ailing economy has driven roughly a quarter of its population abroad in search of better prospects. The victims are the thousands of children growing up back home alone.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...856699,00.html

[yiannaki]

This story is the story of many people of the East European countries. In Greece you also do meet man and woman from Bulgaria, Roemania, Poland doing the same kinds of jobs, leaving children and parents behind and sending money each month so they can survive.