Orphans thrown on streets

He is one of six young people who were thrown on the streets after the end of the academic year.

“I have nowhere to go. I will stay at the benches. Sometimes the neighbors give me food, other times I don’t eat at all”, he says.

The 16 year old says that he doesn’t know his family. He has stayed for five years at the “David Brown Center ” and then at “Zyber Hallulli Orphanage”. Today he sleeps on the streets, because he has not received the “orphan” status.

“I have not received the ‘orphan’ status. The neighbors help me sometimes, but they cannot do it all the time, because they have their own children”, Kujtim says.

The residents of this building who have the “orphan” status say that they have been living without drinking water and electric energy for the past week.

“We continue to live without electricity. They tell us to pay it, but I take only 3000 ALL per month. It’s not enough even for food”, one resident says.

Although in difficult conditions, some of them have tried to help the young orphans, among which a young mother of a 10 months old girl.

“There’s a 16 year old mother of a 10 months old baby that was thrown in the streets. The state doesn’t think about us. Everything could happen to us”, one of the residents says.

The Ministry of Labor explained that they are verifying the young people who have this status, while the directory of dormitories has given no answer.

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