The cameras and reporters have long since left this place. The children however, remain. With Romania's soaring inflation, and plummeting economy it seems there is no relief in sight for the thousands of orphaned or abandoned children that wander the streets of the capitol city Bucharest. Most of them, wearing nothing more than rags, with hunger evident in their eyes. Those that have a pair of torn tennis shoes on their feet are considered lucky by the others.
Sadness veils their countenance.
A sadness so profound that it shows in everything they do. Children as young as two and three can be seen at almost every street corner begging for loose change, or a crust of bread. Those that are older, flood the streets offering to wash your car windows with damp, wadded up newspapers. The train station and the sewer system is home to these children while the weather is still mild. That, is the question everyone is trying to avoid.