Tuesday, May 13, 2008
{ 9:33 PM }
I just saw the most disgusting show ever.
Cutting Edge
Bulgaria's Abandoned Children
Bulgaria has more institutionalised mentally and physically disabled children than anywhere else in Europe. This film is a heart-rending look into the life of one such institution. Director Kate Blewett visits a children's care home in Bulgaria where 75 unwanted children are growing up, and investigates the conditions in which the children live. The care home is the main employer in the small village of Mogilino, over an hour from the nearest town. Few of the children can talk, not necessarily because they are unable to, but rather because no one has ever taught them how.
It was so heart wrenching that I couldnt stop crying. The kids were so malnurished that they were like skeletons and most of them just stopped walking, communicating and they just sat there going crazy. 10 kids died in the last 2 years mostly due to malnutrition and yet the director of the place still thinks that the food's good and that she's a good director, it's the staff that failed her. The government even maintained that all institutes in the country were going in accordance to the law and all's good. What is so wrong with this world? They even cut off a kid's thumb coz he was always sucking on it and they couldn't even say if it's due to gangerne or not. It's so bloody sick that words just fail me.
