[rottenflesh]

Yeah I know, I just did a thread on the Youth of Odessa in the Ukraine, but I thought these would be more easily seen in a separate thread instead of just adding them to the original.




On Odessa streets, children from all over Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia coexist.

"According to…official statistics about three thousand children live in the streets of Odessa.
According to the words of the specialists it is just a top of the iceberg”, says Tatiana Semikop, Chief of Criminal Militia on Youth Affairs.
No one has real data on the number of homeless children in Ukraine, but the country is overflowing with a third wave of child homelessness.
During the first two waves of the Civil War and Second World War, children became orphans when their parents died. The majority of modern homeless childrens’ parents are alive.
An awful concept has appeared in Ukraine: “social orphans,” children who in theory have somewhere to go, but who will go never there.

In the streets, children find refuge from parents’ aggression and violence or alcohol and drug abuse.
The street is a complex environment where survival is an every day goal.

Uniting into groups and searching for deserted basements, garrets and hatches, children create their own niches and tough rules.
The cost of a mistake is life. In order to live one must eat.
In order to get food one must have money.
This chain of logic is acquired by homeless children from their fist day on the street.
Some of them wash machines, work as loaders, do casual repair work.
Others beg, becoming professional “homeless children,” and some steal.
Kind “uncles” and “aunts” turn handsome boys and beautiful girls into sex-toys.
Payment comes as a bottle or a dose.
Obstinate children are beaten.
Juvenile homeless children brighten up their uneasy lives however they can – cigarettes picked up from asphalt or a passers-by’s alcohol, drugs, glue…

What fruits will bear these plantlets, tremulously grown by deflected morals and severe distortion of normal human values?
The street means illnesses, from “harmless” bronchitis and lice, to tuberculosis, infectious hepatitis and HIV.
According to “The Way Home,” an organization working with Odessa street children, two thirds of street children are HIV positive.
They die with AIDS in crude cellars and miasma hatches.
Street children do not go to school, but not because they are dumb (though the glue does work its magic over time, and the intelligence of the child sustains irremediable losses).
Homeless children do not go to school because they have nothing to put on, no books to take with them. But mostly they simply have no time, they have to earn a living.

[The Last Nephilim]

Seriously fucked up society.

[NEVERBACKZ]

A most excellent post thank you, what an amazing collection so young yet so full of despair and captured wonderfully, strangely beautiful yet so terribly sad - amazing collection.

[Faline]

Such a shame

[zadfrackglutz]

[dotaku]

that has got to be THE shittiest place on earth. only mcdonalds would take advantage of those poor fucks

[johnleeknoefler]

I don't know a word ugly enough to describe what I just saw. I would use an expletive vulgar word but there are none I know of that are strong enough. Dammit. I could not look at all of it. I had to stop. To see children destroyed in such a horrendous fashion before they ever have a chance is too much for me. There is no rescue for children whose minds are already ruined.

[rottenflesh]

I've noticed people checking out The Homeless. The Hopeless. Drugs, Hookers, and Children in St. Petersburg, Russia, , so I thought I would bump the second edition to it.

[LuckiiDevil21]

These poor kids. So dopesick so young. They probably want to die half the time because they feel so bad. Arghh. Made my stomach fucking hurt

[S. Michael Simms]

Originally Posted by LuckiiDevil21 ↗

These poor kids. So dopesick so young. They probably want to die half the time because they feel so bad. Arghh. Made my stomach fucking hurt

Considering this was several years ago, they're probably all dead by now. Offers a little different perspective on the Russian invasion though -- hard to feel too bad for a country where shit like this is going on.