Divorces increase number of orphans

Social Service Director Kozeta Mesiti declared that this tendency is creating social problems.

“Childcare residential institutions shelter 119 children, 95 in public institutions and 24 in non-public institutions. Recently we have had an increased number of social orphans, children coming from broken families with divorced parents.

The cost for an orphan is 70000 ALL per month. UNICEF representative, Detlef Palm declared that if these children would live in houses, the money would go to the parents and the children would grow up with love and a lower cost. Palm underlined that the support coming from biological families is very important and it would mean closing the orphanage for children under 3 years of age.

“Most of the social reform is the transformation of residential institutions into a child care system that is based on the family and community. Children belong to families and not institutions, and this is not the best for the children. The average cost is 70000 ALL and only with some of this money you can find families that can take care of them. I was told that Kosovo doesn’t have orphanages for children under three years old, and we can do the same here. This doesn’t mean that your job will be closed, but you’ll just have different duties”, Palm declared.

The difference between rich and poor people is getting bigger in Albania, and this is helping with the increased number of abused children and violated women, growing this way the number of people who need social workers.

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