MOLDOVA - THE OUTSIDERS

Tomas Van Houtryve

Panos Pictures

A boy cleans his room in on graduation day at the Gymnasia-Internat Number 2 boarding school in Chisinau, Moldova on 29 May 2009. The school has over 500 children living on the campus. Around 80% are social orphans – children whose parents are still alive, but were turned over to institutional care by the parents. The facility has not been reformed since Soviet times.

Tomas Van Houtryve, "MOLDOVA - THE OUTSIDERS," in POYi Archive, Item #43800, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/43800 (accessed June 17, 2025).