They are the children who stay in the “unsuspecting” of institutions, those who have disabilities or are older and are not “preferred” for admonition, despite the increased need to leave institutions and acquire a family environment.

Despite the new law on the admonition and childbirth (4538/2018) and the operation of the platform https://www.anynet.gr/, where anyone and everyone can request a family to offer children in need, Applications for children with disabilities and older- over 8 years of age- remain minimal.

On the occasion of World Children’s Day on May 31, the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, with the help of the Parents’ Network for Social Protection of Minors, spoke with two women-single women, who overturned the child.

Sofia Kazakou has been hosting Maria in recent months, a 4 -year -old quadriplegic little girl With micro -head, he met in the institution where he has been working for a few years as a nursery. “I had been trying to have a child for years, I had miscarriages and failed IVF. When I started working at the foundation and saw the kids, I felt very bad because I saw that there were so many kids you can get, instead of birth, and all they want is love. ” Knowing Maria, who is from a baby at the institution, she decided to put her in her life: she rented a house that could be accessible to a child with disabilities and proceeded with the relevant procedures as a singleogeneic.

“My concern is to be able to serve it and every time I get it is great. She kills me when I leave her, “says the 48 -year -old, stressing that Most who want to proceed with underpinning are based on the child to be healthy and young, and they also affect their origin..

“They enter a “lifeless” platform to apply. But if these children knew they would change opinion“, He notes and urges interested parties to prefer reconstruction rather than childbirth.

“The child is selfish while the foster is a bid, just give love,” he says.

Accept and security ask all children

The 45 -year -old Dina (not wanting to be published her surname) became a 11 -year -old girl’s contractor last year, after a large internal meditation process, having never tried to have a child.

“My start was my need to do something beyond myself,” he says. As a monogony too, but having the emotional support of her environment, she applied for the platform, setting a wide age range in a child search and for almost a year, came the same “match” with a one. 11 -year -old girlwhich has been housed in an institution since its 5 years.

“The first meetings at the Foundation with the child were difficult because then I realized that the most important was to overcome the Foundation the suspensions that a child had to leave. Of course there is a concept that the contractor is appropriate but beyond that, there are other obstacles. ” Despite this, she talks about a very beautiful first encounter with the child who predicted what will happen in the future and her will to stand at a distance, with an open heart, to listen to the needs of the girl.

‘My girl has developmental problems And you need special treatment, which follows her unknowingly, because she knows she needs it. The development of speech was delayed, not from mental problems but from experiences and then lacking substantial care and intervention, ”he explains.

The 11 -year -old has contact with her biological parents and remains the foster in Dina, which, however, says this is something she does not concern. “I didn’t get into the process to get a child of mine. I wanted to help a child orthodox, work his wounds and make his life. It is our daily struggle to build a relationship of trust. At Mother’s Day, I was very pleased when she gave me a card that read: “Happy Birthday Dina”. I told her that now you have two people who fit in your heart, your biological mother and me. “

As for her decision to become a contractor at an older child than they are “preferred” because there is a fear of the abuse they have suffered or the years they left in the institutions, her answer is disarming: “They don’t matter because they don’t matter because All children need security and acceptance“

In the “unshakable” children with disabilities

Undressed from the electronic system of impersonal links between candidates and children with disabilities or older children, the president of the Network of Contractor Parents for the Social Protection of Juvenile Eleni Georgarou is seeking.

“The system is now clearer and more immediate because in the past the person concerned should knock on institutions. With the electronic platform there are several parameters and the similar match is quickly made but for children with disabilities there is an almost absolute failure, ”says Ms. Georgarou. He expresses the view that they should not be on the same platform as healthy children, but to follow another way.

“Our proposal is to have a parallel system that will bring together bodies and candidates to know children with disabilities, to establish relationships and to unblock this process from the impersonal connection of the platform.” In addition, the network’s proposal is for the institutions to communicate their needs for recessions to express interest and the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family to publicize information on children who are in institutions, such as how much they are disabled and in general, their ages.

“Finally, it must also be corrected that the adolescence is not promoted immediately but the child first enters the institution and then a contractor is sought,” he says.

Members of the network will be on Saturday 11am-2pm on the pedestrian street of Hagia Sophia, in the park in front of the “Red House” to raise awareness and inform about children.