The Caritas agency in Iasi (Romania), in collaboration with Italian Caritas, will shortly begin a new project entitled “Caritas doors of emigration”, to “seek to reduce the percentage of clandestine emigration of Romanians through the recognition of their rights and duties abroad”. The project will also try to inform potential emigrants of the system of social welfare they will find in their host country, and the consequence of emigration on the unity of the family”. The aims of the new project were presented by a delegation of Italian Caritas at Iasi on 25 June. The project will be launched in September. The delegate for problems linked to migration in the Romanian Episcopal Conference is the bishop of Iasi, Msgr. Petru Gherghel. Meanwhile, in the suburbs of the city of Constanta (on the shores of the Black Sea), 66 street children and adolescents can now find a hot meal and a friendly presence in the new Salesian Centre of Don Bosco, inaugurated on 25 June. The Salesians have been present in Romania since 1996. They are active in Bucharest and Iasi, and especially involved in activities of support and education for poor children and street children. In the new centre, deprived children can eat, take a shower, receive medical assistance and take courses in tailoring. At the end of the course, it will be easier for them to find a job and accommodation, and no longer be forced to live on the street.
