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Romania:
MAKING UP FOR LOST DECADES
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"We
have lost two generations. We do not want to lose another."
~
CRIPS staff member
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During
his twenty-four years of dictatorship (1965-1989), Nicolae
Ceausescu's policies caused severe foodshortages and poverty.
He also established a pronatalist population policy that
severely restricted contraception and, as in other communist
countries, social work was declared an unnecessary profession.
In Romania, one of USAID's
strategic objectives
is to tackle the legacy and long term problems created
by these policies, including a high rate of material mortality,
abortion, unintended pregnancies, and abandoned children.USAID
is working with Romania to establish a community-based,
family-focused system of child welfare that will reduce
reliance on institutionalization. LearnLink and World
Learning are co-piloting a project to experiment with
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for
reinforcing and expanding skills among a cadre of social
workers. [more]
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