"12 years ago, as a child, shy and hopeful, I was passing into a new house ... this was Casa Ray. Here I made many friends I considered my brothers and sisters, but here I met also those who took care of us, who were the first people I really thought as my mom and dad.
"Casa Ray" formed me as a person and here I learned how to behave in society, to make the difference between good and evil and what is most important, to respect my neighbor.
Dodita Ioan swas born on February 12th, 2001, Dodita Florin was born on September 13th, 2002 and Dodita Vasilica was born on August 9th, 2004 after a cohabiting relationship between Dodita Ioan and Birzu Vasilica, the three being recognized by the father.
Mother sadly died in 2007 (suffering from TB) and the father is unable to nurturing and educating three children, because he is bedridden (paralyzed for 8 years) and the paternal grandmother is in the care of minors, a 80-year-old woman.
They live in a building consisting of two shabby furnished rooms, their only income being the grandmother's pension and the father's pension. In the family they had no access to education, because they did not attend any form of preschool education.
After this, it was established the measure of protection for the three, in emergency and then they were institutionalized in Casa Ray placement center - Dobreni, Neamt county.
Misaila Ionut was born on August 25th, 2003, and Misaila Cristina was born on March 18th, 2005 in Piatra-Neamt city.
The children come from a cohabiting relationship, being recognized by the father, but the parents showed a total lack of interest in the growth and education of children, living in inadequate conditions, in a building consisting of two unfurnished, unhealthy rooms, which did not ensure a minimum for decent living conditions for both parents and children.
When establishing protection measure for the two children, the mother left home, implicitly also the children, and the father was admitted to hospital emergency in Bisericani, being diagnosed with disabling TB and chronic alcoholism.
The children's parents are called Guguianu Ovidiu and Guguianu Ramona Elena, and it all started from a divorce.
Ana and Constantin stayed up to 7 and 5 years at their mother, and they were taken to Elena Doamna Home, together with the other brothers, since their mother went to Italy. After one year thet were taken from the home by their maternal grandparents.
The children lived with their grandparents for a while, in an apartment with 4 rooms, with another 6 people (two grandparents, an uncle, an aunt and two brothers), a total of 8 people. Grandfather, Gheorghe Lazar is the natural father of the girl's mother. Grandmother, Elena Lazar Alisa is the second wife of the girl's grandfather, stepmother to her mother. Together they have a daughter, Iuliana Lazar, a student in ninth grade. With them Cristi Lazar is also living, the grandfather's son from his first marriage. At these grandparents the children could not feel like a family. We have some of the testimony of Ana's teacher:
Elena Tutu was born on May 10th, 2005, in Roman, and she comes from a relationship outside marriage, and was not recognized by the father. Unfortunately life did not smile to her, being abandoned by her mother in hospital immediately after birth.
Elena has been in the care of a professional caregiver until the age of 7, when she became ill and could no longer handle the growth and education of the minor. Over time, this "mother" for Elena died, the received diagnosis being of lung cancer.
Again a soul tormented because of parental irresponsibility.
Ciprian Vantoaia was born on 14th of January 2003, in Piatra-Neamt. He comes from a family legally constituted but curtailed by the separation of parents. His mother left home and has another four children of a cohabiting relationship and thus Ciprian was left in the care of the father.
He worked as a shepherd and lived in an annex unplastered, equipped with an iron stove, a bed and a table, annex owned by the boss of Ciprian' father. Living in the sheepfold, Ciprian's father could not handle his son's education.
Constantin was born on the 19th of June 2001 in Piatra Neamt, county Neamt.
His father didn't recognize him and he was care of by a person from Ruseni village who was cashing his allowance and other benefits from the Maire House. After this person died, Constantin's sister Ghiurca Ana Maria took care of him until 2003 when she died of AIDS. After his sister's death, Constantin ended up in his mother's care who wasn't very interested in taking care of Constantin. She had 8 other children, some of them left in foreign countries and some were in Foster Care.
His mother didn't have a place of her own , any income and she used to live in different men houses.
Vacaru Laurentiu, the father in this family is a well known unemployed alcoholic and the mother has been diagnosed with a mental deficiency with relational dysfunctions.
Because of this situation , the children have been neglected and left unsupervised. The living conditions were inhuman , they all lived in one room so the space was not enough for 6 people and that room was far from clean. The only income was the mother's illness pension of 370 ron and the children allowances.
In the same yard , there was the house of the maternal grand parents Damian Toader and Damian Didina who didn't want to get involved in the raising of the children under the reason that they are old and sick.
Vacaru Antonio was born on the 4th of May 2001, Doinita on the 8th of January 2003 , Nicu on the 19th of December 2004 and Laura on the 27th of September 2010. They had one more brother, but by negligence he was run over by a car and died.
Ciorhan Vlad was born on the 7th of May 1998 and Cristian was born on the 7th of January 2000 in Piatra Neamt. Their family had a lot of social problems - alcoholism, violence, poverty.
The family was constituted in 1991 and had over the time 5 children. This family had big problems even from the start with violence and different conflicts so 3 of the children were given away to foster home, one child was placed in a center called Romanita and the oldest daughter stayed at home with the parents.
The Ciorhan's house had 2 rooms without furniture and very dirty with no electricity.
On the 12th of August 2003 the mother was killed by the father when he was under the influence of alcohol.
Madalin was brought in Dobreni village, Neamt county, at a relative who promised to raise Madalin and take him to the local school. He comes from a family with 6 children ( one is dead ) and the father died in 2007. Madalin remembers how his father was feeling very bad, he went to the hospital and came back dead.
The relative that was supposed to take care of Madalin contacted us to accept Madalin in our Day Care Center. His mother agreed.
