Take a look at the lives of street children in Russia.
Russian Street Children – Click to Watch the video.
Misha’s Story
A boy runs away from the orphanage, just to make soup for his mother.
Black rubber shoes, a few sizes too big, dusty feet, gray shorts and t-shirt, skinny body and huge kind eyes – this is our Misha. Two years ago his alcoholic mother was denied parental rights. The 12 year old boy was placed in an orphanage, 60 miles from home. Throughout these 2 years, Misha has run away 20 times from the orphanage and walked home on the highway – just to feed his mother…
Each time the police find him and return him to the orphanage. Sometimes the boy steals or tries to make some money, all for his mother. He says that he loves her very much and cannot live so far away. On the money, somehow earned, he buys groceries and takes it to his mother. To an apartment full of smoke and a mother who is always drunk.
He takes a pot, fills it with water, and peals some potatoes. Makes soup, washes the floor and dishes. Then he sits his mother at the table and helps her eat her dinner. Misha, crying, asks her not to drink anymore. His mother ignores him, just as constantly as he takes care of her.
“It’s all my fault,” the boy says. “I got into the wrong group of friends, started running away from home. That’s why I was taken to an orphanage. It’s great there, we go fishing, swimming. But I want to be close to my mother and I know she wants that too…”
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