In 2006, award-winning ITN journalist Chris Rogers, armed with hidden cameras, smuggled himself in the State-run orphanages of Romania and discovered the heartbreaking truth - that the conditions that so shocked the world after the fall of Ceausescu had not, in many cases, improved. Children were still being abandoned: unloved, uncared for, and left to rot. In their poverty, some families were prepared to sell their children to wealthy Westerners. The resulting film on ITN sparked a global debate over the ban on international adoption from Romania, and led to further trips - including one to Turkey, to see the plight of children with special needs. Gathering support from aid workers, doctors, politicians and finally a Duchess and two princesses, Chris Rogers would uncover the truth about more than a million children held in inhumane conditions.
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Chris Rogers is an award-winning television journalist and producer (he recently picked up the Amnesty International Media Award, and also won the One World Award for his investigations into Romanian child care), and his film on the treatment of Palestinian children by both the Israelis and the Palestinians won the Royal Television Society Award for Programme of the Year. He has posed as a human trafficker for an undercover investigation into East European sex traffickers for News at Ten, and his journey to Romania and Turkey to expose the shocking conditions inside state-run institutions, using hidden cameras, resulted in both a superb programme and this book. Marshall Corwin is an Emmy award-winning BBC TV series producer, with twenty years experience of filming documentaries across the world. Specialising in children's issues, science, conservation and adventure, he has made films in many extreme and dangerous environments. He has won fifteen major awards, and spent ten years in BBC Radio before moving to BBC TV, where he created the Serious Adventure, in which a team of teenagers go to extremes to help the planet, taking on environmental projects in some of the world's toughest places.. He is also the author of Serious Survival and co-wrote The Newsround Book of Space, and both were short-listed for the Royal Society Junior Science Books Prize.
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By D. Mance
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I bought this book because I have always found Chris Rogers to be a great journalist. I was profoundly shocked and deeply troubled by the sheer scope of human suffering undercovered by Mr. Rogers in this book. It is a rollercoaster ride of sensational highs and gut-wrenching lows as Mr. Rogers exposes a terrible cycle of neglect and abuse suffered by many in institutionalized care in Romania and Turkey. I found myself inspired by the audacity of Mr. Rogers and his team to make so many undercover journeys to these bleak institutions in order to tell such an important story. Even in the face of threats and intimidation, Mr. Rogers and his team paint a picture of both the best and worst of humanity: those trying to improve the lives of others and those antagonistic to anything that hinders their own agenda. This book is a snapshot of what can be achieved for the greater public good by solid, forthright journalism. I highly recommend this book.
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30 Jun 2011
By Lisa A. Mundy
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I enjoyed this book highly. I saw the documentary and it was so sad to watch those children suffering. I hope that things change for the orphanages .
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