Cadea 1995

The situation at Cadea. As described in one of the newsletters from 1995.

Cadea

Even though the boarding house is not liveable, many new youth have moved to Cadea during the fall. Approximately 70 teenagers live there now, 15 of which are girls. It’s very hard to describe their situation and even harder to understand how their lives really are. They are abandoned by their families and by authorities, and they have started to understand how impossible it will be to manage in society. In some strange way they put up with not being able to have private belongings, not having any amenities, no meaningful leisure time or anything fun to look forward to and not even proper school education. They don’t seem to have a right to anything. For some, the contact with the Swedish volunteers is the only ray of hope. Our workers are renovating, but the building is big, the work takes a lot of time and it will cost a lot of money. Even now there is still no heat in the ice cold stone house.