In north-western Croatia, in the inland of the Istrian Peninsula, you can find a small town called Oprtalj on the top of a hill. Here the humanitarian organisation Nadomak Sunca is situated. The aim of the organisation is to offer a warm family-life to children who had previously been deprived of this for whatever reason. The initiative started in 1993 during the war in the former Yugoslavia, when Oprtalj was still largely deserted. Since 1994, six family-houses have been renovated. In every house, foster parent couples receive 3-8 children in care, whom they raise together with their birth-children. They form real families, where children from different origin grow up together, sharing equal treatment and life-standard.
The common ideal of the House Parents is to help the children regain trust in the future and to support them in growing up and becoming physically and mentally healthy human beings. Unitl now, 43 chldren have been received incare by the Nadomak Sunca families.
Since the founding of the organisation 14 years ago, life has returned to the little town of Oprtalj. Thanks to the support of many people from all parts of Europe, ruins have been rebuilt, a small ecological farm has been developed and, most important of all, a large number of children have found a real childhood.
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