![]() KitchenĢ50 widows, widowers, orphans as well as homeless receive their daily tasty food with meat waiting at the line with their vessels. Our prayer is that this bread will be the premise for them receive the bread of life. It is so nice seeing so many people who have come in the yard of the church for bread. There are about 20 people who work in the bakery and most of them are pastors and ministers from the church and the region.The bread is distributed through coupons given by the local government. There are hundreds of people who wait daily in order to receive the free daily bread. Bakery – the Ethos bakery is the place where every day 1200 loaves of bread are distributed.Trying to help supplying the basic need – feeding the poor, we try to give them the bread of life. Very few people can realize that the crisis for the bread leads to a spiritual crisis. We trust God that He will provide for His people. Unfortunately we have stopped working on most of them because of shortage of financial means. I would like to share some of the projects that we have worked on in the church in Razlog. “I felt very ashamed about it,” she said.Īccording to the ERRC’s report, Romani orphans are at the greatest risk for trafficking for sexual exploitation between the ages of six and 15.NEWSLETTER “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 ![]() I felt so bad, I cried a lot and started to miss school because I felt that everybody could see what had happened to me. Lacking any social support system, and with little knowledge as to how to live on their own, they’re frequently targeted by adults and forced into prostitution.Īs one young Romani woman who was abducted and later forced into sex work at age 16 explained to ERRC researchers, “I didn’t tell anyone. Research has shown that Romani children are also overrepresented in state care institutions, which increases their vulnerability to trafficking. This means Western clients have increased demand for trafficked children and youth from the Roma community. In addition, the ERRC’s research revealed that 70 percent of all individuals trafficked for sexual exploitation and forced to work along the Czech-German border are Roma. However, these same reports rarely mention that trafficking of non-Romani peoples frequently involves friends or family members. Much of the reporting on the subject has focused on “Roma organized crime groups” or the alleged complicity of adult members of the Roma community in trafficking or abducting children. In fact, just a week before Greek police found Maria, the European Commission together with a number of partner organizations launched a 24-month project entitled “ Countering new forms of Roma children trafficking” to address the high number of Roma children who’ve been abducted across Europe. ![]() Much of the discussion has focused on Roma as perpetrators while the experience of Roma as victims has been mostly ignored,” she said. “For many years, information has circulated linking trafficking in human beings and Roma, but it doesn’t give the complete picture. Ostalinda Maya of the ERRC explained the rationale for such research, which looked at trafficking of Roma in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. ![]() These are staggering numbers, considering Roma constitute just 4.9 percent of Bulgaria’s total population. In Bulgaria, police estimate that 70 percent of all illegal adoptions are of Roma children, and more than 80 percent of all children and young adults trafficked for sexual exploitation are Roma. The Roma community is “disproportionately affected by trafficking”, according to a study conducted by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and People in Need (PiN) in 2011. They’ve since been arrested and charged with child abduction.Īs investigators search for Maria’s biological parents (her Roma caretakers claim they adopted her from a Bulgarian mother) and a full-scale moral panic about “gypsy kidnappers” erupts across Europe, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of children living in European cities who’ve been abducted or trafficked but will never make international headlines because they themselves are Roma. Authorities found the girl to be suspiciously fair-skinned, and subjected her to a DNA test which revealed that the couple who’d been caring for her were not her biological parents. Earlier this month, the blue-eyed five- or six-year-old girl now known to the world as “Maria” was discovered living in the Farsala Roma community in the Larissa region of central Greece. She’s been called “the blond angel without an identity”. ![]()
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