Drug abuse must be addressed
The huge rise in illegal narcotics into Romania andThe Republic of Moldova along with Republic ofSerbia that has an ongoing problem of youngsterswho consume narcoticsmust be addressed withseriousness and vigor.RCHF has within the past 9months in fact been writing and designing a bookto help advise and educate young people aboutthe dangers of drug abuse and associated healthrisks, plus added dangers posed by organizedcrime operators who take advantage of drug userswho are often trafficked, made to steal or turnedinto forced prostitution by their captors.
The book will be availablein Romanian in January2011, followed by and English version and otherlanguages later in the year ahead, plus a secondbook which will be animated is being designedatthis moment and will help younger childrenunderstand the dangers of narcotics
RCHF only educates children in their national language
Here we are unlike many foreign charities, which prefer to use English or French. In our opinion if you are to be fully understood by the students you teach a foreign Country one must speak in the Countries national language. If you do not then clearly many in the class will not fully understand and the lesson will be of only minimal benefit to the students. It may be an easy option for foreign helpers to use their own language, but it has negative consequences for the students being taught
RCHF was honored to e invited to participate in the 3 day prestigious INSPIR 2010 national Pulmonary Disease conference organized by The Pulmonary Disease University Hospital of Iasi and University of Medicine Gr T Popa Iasi and sponsored by Pfizer, Astra Zenca and Glaxo-Smith-Kline (GSK) held at the historic Iasi central university Ferdinand in October.
Brian Douglas was invited to speak about the work of RCHF in TB prevention to the huge delegation present including international delegates from many European Countries, plus from The Ukraine and Republic of Moldova and Serbia. Brian also made friends with UK specialist Doctor Donal Bradley and spent time discussing aspects and differences between medical care in the UK and Romania.
Street Children Network Conference 2010
Conference in the fall of this year. Included within the conference was a press conference at the Suceava Police Inspectorate where Brian spoke about the urgent need for the Romanian authorities to address the serious drugs problems affecting Romanian young people today including on the subject of Etnobotanic weed shops which remain open after a proposed ban was never effected by the Romanian authorities in February of this year.
In the afternoon a workshop for young people arranged by the 3 participating NGOs in collaboration with Suceava Police Inspectorate was well attended by over 60 young people who all eagerly participated in the workshop themes including a strong anti drug theme.