Special Needs Orphans In Moldova Distraught By Covid Says Irish Medic
‘Burying people makes things very real,’ says Dr Suzanne O’Connell as she reflects on the past twelve months. The Dublin native, who is based in Moldova, is the founder of Outreach Moldova, an Irish charity set up in 2000 to provide services for children with special needs that have been abandoned or orphaned in the Eastern European country. Suzie’s work is largely based in the Outreach Moldova orphanage in Hincesti, home to 248 girls with varying levels of physical and intellectual disabilities, some of whom are terminally ill. In the midst of the pandemic, the team lost three reside...