Pastor Lucas Rahanar, center, leads bible study at Victory Outreach, a soup kitchen and shelter for the homeless in Bucharest. Photo: Jodi...
Twenty five years after the fall of Communism, many thousands of young people and children live on the streets of Bucharest or in the underground...
"Macarena," left, with her friend Nicoletta, who is pregnant with her third child. Macarena was the Aurolac-addicted subject of a 2001 documentary...
Christina is a 19 year-old homeless youth in Bucharest. She and several young family members shelter in the underground sewer and heating system and...
Maddalena Ilie with her dog and her mother, 38 year-old Flori Ilie. Both are homeless and addicted to huffing Aurolac paint. They survive by begging...
Remus Paraschiv says that he prefers to live alone rather than in the crowded underground canal near Gara de Nord. His living quarters are a room...
Mora, 19 who is pregnant with her second child with her boyfriend. They are living with other youth in Bucharest's vast system of underground canals...
Park near Gara de Nord from where drug addicted and homeless youth climb into the underground system of canals, heating pipes and sewage system where...
Year-old who goes by the nickname "Gum" says he's a runaway and prefers to live "on the streets where I am more free." Photo: Jodi Hilton/NurPhoto
Maria lives with her cousins and other homeless youth in an underground space that makes up Bucharest's vast system of heating and sewage canals....
Heroine addicted woman at a park near Gara de Nord train station in Bucharest, crying because it was her birthday and she had no candy to offer her...
Signs of skin decomposition due to drug use by an a Romanian addict in Bucharest's Gara de Nord area. Photo: Jodi Hilton/NurPhoto
Year-old drug user has the tell-tale paint covered fingers of an Aurolac paint addict. He also says he injects drugs. Photo: Jodi Hilton/NurPhoto
Man reaches to bring his bag underground, through the entrance at a park next to Gara de Nord train station in Bucharest. The park is a gathering...
Drug users gather around the entrance to the underground sewage and heating system near Gara de Nord train station where many drug addicted and...
"Bruce Lee" who is usually surrounded by a pack of stray dogs, is the leader of the drug addicted youth who gather at a park near Gara de Nord train...
Many of the thousands of minors and young adults living in Bucharest's vast system of underground canals are addicted to huffing a metallic paint...
Man at the entrance to the underground sewer and heating system in Bucharest where drug addicted and homeless youth shelter during winter months....
Nineteen year-old Mora is pregnant with her second child and lives underground in the "canals" of Bucharest, a series of tunnels meant for heating...
Sergiiu Stelian Bogdan, a 24 year-old homeless youth lives under a bridge. He is finishing his degree at a technical high school and is trying to get...
Four year-old girl watches as her older cousin huffs Aurolac paint. Of approximately 6000 homeless people living in Bucharest, about 1000 are...
Dana outside the home where she rents a room with her 2 year old daughter. Like many of her generation, Dana was abandoned as a child, raised in an...
Homeless youth begging for money in traffic stopped at Piata Victoriei in central Bucharest. Photo: Jodi Hilton/NurPhoto
Drug den destroyed by fire in a middle class Bucharest neighborhood is littered with debris, including needles used for drug injections. Photo: Jodi...
The entrance to the underground at Gara de Nord, a gathering point for homeless youth and drug addicts near Bucharest's train station. Photo: Jodi...
Gara de Nord is the main train station and gathering point for homeless and drug addicted youth and prostitutes in Bucharest. Photo: Jodi...
Discarded needles at a park near Gara de Nord train station. The park is a meeting point for drug addicts and homeless youth. Photo: Jodi...
Year-old drug user says he injects drugs and huffs Aurolac paint, which is silver and has covered his fingers. Photo: Jodi Hilton/NurPhoto
Year old homeless and drug-addicted youth huffing Aurolac paint in Bucharest. Photo: Jodi Hilton/NurPhoto
Drug-addicted youth at a park near Gara de Nord which is a meeting point for addicts who purchase and inject drugs in the area near the entrance to...
Remus Paraschiv, a homeless youth in his early 20s, lives alone in an underground space he found near Piata Victoriei, an important square in the...
Remus Paraschiv says that he prefers to live alone rather than in the crowded underground canal near Gara de Nord. His living quarters are a room...
Thousands of minors and young adults live in Bucharest's vast system of underground canals used for heating, water and sewage pipes. Many were raised...
Alex, an impoverished child, receives new pants from Victory Outreach, a shelter and soup kitchen for the homeless in Bucharest. Photo: Jodi...
Adriana is a Roma child living on the streets of Bucharest. Thousands of minors and young adults live in Bucharest's vast system of underground...
Nicoletta, 32 and pregnant with her third child, lives with her boyfriend in an encampment near the city's train station. Although her first two...
Street lights penetrate a deep fog in Bucharest, where winter is harsh for thousands of minors and young adults living in Bucharest's vast system of...
