Children have been also greatly affected by the transition processes. The quality of school education has decreased. It happened due to many reasons, like change in the political system resultijg in continuous educational reform, insufficient funding from State and authorities, lack of technical equipment, low qualification of teachers and outflow of qualified staff, etc. The costs of education have dramatically increased compared to the past, when State secured education. Private institutions began to cover niches in education in the urban areas, however families at and below the average income level cannot afford paid service.

Many factors do not allow parents to devote to their children the time their own parents used to spend with them. It is much easier to loose a job now and it is that much harder to find one. The purely paid school teachers cannot replace the parents, neither they have the motivation. Few have passed any training since they started this so special and responsible job. Badly paid and little respected, the social status of the teacher has changed from being one of the most important persons in the communities to just another civil servant.

The graduates in rural areas face the hardship of finding a job, many have no idea about their own future. This is how migration starts, village to town, town to capital, capital to another country. Lack of perspectives and vision on the future among youth are main factors that made migration and its degenerate appearance-trafficking of human beings so scary and large scale phenomena.

Threats are facing children in the cities and villages: drugs, sometimes sold next to school, alcoholism (urban and rural), trafficking (urban and rural), risky sexual behavior and threat of sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS and others (mostly urban), general corruption of values, are often setting the path to criminal behavior.

One of the most horrible experiences is too see youth and childrenpassive, not interested, demotivated and noncreative. A very bad sign of the life of those children and youth is to find out that they do not dream of anything better, or that they cannot dream of anything because their only life experience is limited within the frames of their own very vulnerable community. It is a very bad sign of the community status.

Still, children and youth are the most proactive members of the communities. They are the unifying factor that can unite all other people in the communities no matter what internal duisturbanices they experience. They are keen to learn, they are curious and active by nature. By involving the youth and children in all activities, by providing the space for creativeness, by taking their opinions seriously and by equal respect towards them as they were adults, children and youth become the power that moves the community on. They should be involved in shaping the future of those vulnerable communities. Because it is their future. And because there are no limits to what they are capable of.

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