An orphanage in Bucharest, 1991: charity workers found starving children crammed into cots

What happened to Romania’s abandoned children?

Our founder, Jane Nicholson, spoke about the necessity for FARA Charity

Our founder, Jane Nicholson, spoke about the necessity for FARA Charity in the Mail on Sunday’s YOU magazine.

“It was the smell Jane noticed first. A putrid, eye-watering stench. Then the unimaginable sights. Rows of metal cots filled with emaciated, semi-naked children, smeared in their own faeces. Three to a cot, they stared out from behind the bars, hollow-eyed. Even in the midst of this visceral horror, there was no noise. The silence was eerie. The dimly lit room was filled with children and not one of them was crying. What’s the point? No one will come.”

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