Moldova is an emerging country in Eastern Europe. It is located between Romania and the Ukraine, on the Black Sea. The average monthly income is $100, and there, even a doctor or a lawyer will average only $200 per month.The population is slightly more than 5 million. Even with that small number, there are over 11,600 children institutionalized in orphanages. Many have no relatives, no family, and no hope. Some are there because their families simply cannot afford to keep them.
At age 16, they leave the orphanage and enter the world, either as students at University, or into the workforce. Moldovan women are particularly known for their beauty, and unfortunately, many young girls are lured away from Moldova under the pretense of getting work, only to wind up as prisoners in the sex trade from the Balkans to Western Europe. Many of the young men wind up involved in low paying work or petty crime.
