Deva Warnings Or Dangers

While traveling throughout Romania you will be accosted regularly by beggers, both from the Roma / Gypsy people and Romanian street people.

I am not being a Rascist here but the Roma or Gypsy have a full time job begging.
Points to note: Children from Gypsy familys are taken into towns and villages to beg all day long, I know of family gangs who travel into Deva everyday just to beg. They are very persistent and any requests for money should be meet with a firm "NU!" that means No in Romanian, if they persist try calling "A J I T O R" that means help, most Romanians are very annoyed and embarresed that a torist should be accosted by beggers and will usualy shout at them to leave you in peace or the police will come.

Mains locations the beggers can be found; On trains, train stations, outside supermarkets, bus stations, outside Churches. Cripples and maimed are often left by the family to beg outside shops and churches for the day, often displaying the stumps of limbs for sympathy.
Also remember that, the dirty looking child begging for money and acting out a charade miming hunger, wants the money to give to the parents, adult family members can be seen beating the younger ones if they dont perform well, also beware that many of them are accomplished pickpockets.

The second class of beggers are Street children & Alcoholics, street children are children who were turned out of the State sponsered Orphanages when funding ran out, after the collapse of the communist regime, and they still are underfunded today, many are young teenagers, lots of them have been sexually abused since moving to live on the streets and there is a high incidence of solvent abuse. They tend to haunt the outside of some of the larger train stations, Again if approched for money firmly repond with NU! till they realise they will get nothing and leave, if persistent you may call out "A J I T O R" for help, most train stations have a Police office.