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sheenianni...and apparently children aren't high on the list.
"Klokánek" (The Kangaroo group) is a non-profit organisation that runs a system of family homes and apartments; it's there for childen whose families suddenly fall into a bad social situation, for kids who lost their parents and are waiting to be adopted or put into foster-care etc. The kids are living in small family-like groups with "Aunts" and "Uncles" who take care of them, usually two adults per three or four kids, and unlike the usual orphanages, siblings almost always remain together even if there is an age difference. All in all, it's a system that tries to make it as easy as possible for the kids, and it works really well ... or it used to, until the government interfered two years ago and passed a new law, cutting their funding, stating that there could be only 28 kids in each home, with absolutely no care about what happens to the kids who are above that count.
The leaders of Klokánek protested, but our so-called "Minister of Social Care" didn't listen. Klokánek then didn't get rid of these "excess" kids, but still kept them there despite the cuts in their funding - which, not surprisingly, left the group in debt. They repeatedly begged the state for more money - money that is just a tiny drop in the country's budget - but today, the government denied them for the last time, which means now they'll have to close eight out of the 28 homes to stabilize their finances.
The really maddening part is that the state doesn't care what happens to the children who will have to leave. Case in point, in April when the first two Klokánek homes were closed, a group of siblings was moved from there to a juvie for boys. Nobody cared that the kids haven't done anything wrong, or that one of them was a girl - the state didn't have free places for all of them in another facility, so they just stuck them to the juvie, problem solved. State knows the best.
But hey, who gives a fuck about some unwanted kids in group homes. Well done, you so-called "socialist" government. Well done indeed.
"Klokánek" (The Kangaroo group) is a non-profit organisation that runs a system of family homes and apartments; it's there for childen whose families suddenly fall into a bad social situation, for kids who lost their parents and are waiting to be adopted or put into foster-care etc. The kids are living in small family-like groups with "Aunts" and "Uncles" who take care of them, usually two adults per three or four kids, and unlike the usual orphanages, siblings almost always remain together even if there is an age difference. All in all, it's a system that tries to make it as easy as possible for the kids, and it works really well ... or it used to, until the government interfered two years ago and passed a new law, cutting their funding, stating that there could be only 28 kids in each home, with absolutely no care about what happens to the kids who are above that count.
The leaders of Klokánek protested, but our so-called "Minister of Social Care" didn't listen. Klokánek then didn't get rid of these "excess" kids, but still kept them there despite the cuts in their funding - which, not surprisingly, left the group in debt. They repeatedly begged the state for more money - money that is just a tiny drop in the country's budget - but today, the government denied them for the last time, which means now they'll have to close eight out of the 28 homes to stabilize their finances.
The really maddening part is that the state doesn't care what happens to the children who will have to leave. Case in point, in April when the first two Klokánek homes were closed, a group of siblings was moved from there to a juvie for boys. Nobody cared that the kids haven't done anything wrong, or that one of them was a girl - the state didn't have free places for all of them in another facility, so they just stuck them to the juvie, problem solved. State knows the best.
But hey, who gives a fuck about some unwanted kids in group homes. Well done, you so-called "socialist" government. Well done indeed.
