It's been a good week so far working with Forget-Me-Not Ministries. Every morning we walk/ride our bikes/ or get a ride to the Isaiah Center which is just about a mile down the road from where we are living. We ride in the van to the gypsy part of Tinca. It's amazing how in just a few blocks you can go from nice houses to extreme poverty. It's the norm for little kids to just run around naked and by themselves. When we picked up the kids on Tuesday you could tell they had a long weekend. Sweet little Simona just sat there and sucked her thumb. It really just makes you want to walk up to their parents and smack them in the face for all of the physical and sexual abuse that these kids go through, but you can't.
It's been a fun few days getting to know the kids' different personalities. They are a crazy, rowdy bunch. Friday and Saturday people are coming to the Center to talk to the staff about how to deal with these kids since they are all special needs. They all pretty much have reactive attachment disorder and they look for you to get angry and hit them because that's what it's like at home and that's what comforts them. It's really sad but it is amazing how every year the kids have improved. It just gives hope that maybe one day they will be the ones to end the cycle of abuse in the gypsy community.
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