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2022 Rev. Universitara Sociologie 46 (2022)
Child Care through the Involvement of NGOs - An International Perspective

handle is hein.journals/rvusoclge2022 and id is 624 raw text is: Revista Universitara de Sociologie - Year XVIII, Issue 3/2022 CHILD CARE THROUGH THE INVOLVEMENT OF NGOs - AN INTERNAL PERSPECTIVE Elena-Monica MIHALCEA1, Lavinia Elisabeta POPP2 1Ph.DStudent, West University of Timisoara (Romania), E-mail: monica.mihalcea9 tagmaihcom 2Professor, PhD, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) E-mail: laviniaxpp ubbcluixo Abstract: Child protection is a major point of interest not only for the competent institutions in the field, but also for the NGOs that have extended their activity, embracing this category of beneficiaries, too. The vulnerability of the children coming from underprivileged environments, often caused by the precarious conditions existing in the natural families, is the object of several NGOs, which evolved after the 1990s. Democracy restored the civil societies'freedom and courage to pool their resources for non-profit purposes, aiming at increasing the quality of the lives of the children who are in risk situations. This paper grasps, from an internal perspective, the manner in which an association intervenes for preventing situations of child abuse, neglect and even abandoning. The research methodology used a qualitative method, i.e. the interview, in order to observe the impact of the provided social services, from a triple perspective (the associations' president, the association's beneficiaries and the association's volunteers). Keywords: child protection, social services, risk situations, prevention, NGO. 1. Introduction The concepts ,civil society or ,tertiary sector widely refer to the totality of the volunteer associations (whether it be district committees or philanthropic institutions), which operated independently from government and were considered an essential ingredient in the democracy welfare by some authors (Foley and Edwards, 1996: 38). Friedrich Hegel considers that the civil society is the historical product of economic modernization and comprises all the social actors who are not dependent on the state apparatus (Spurk, 2010: 7). According to Fukyama (2001: 7), the content of the civil society can be described as an interest group trying to direct the public sources to their favorite causes. In detail, the civil society includes the non-governmental organizations, the private volunteer organizations, the community organizations, the civic clubs, the unions, the cultural and religious groups, charity centers, sports and social clubs, professional associations, academies, consumers and media organizations (Essia and Yearoo, 2009: 368). Thus, it is important to make the distinction between civil society and non- governmental organizations, as an integral part thereof, although many times these terms are mistaken for each other. According to (2010: 186), non-governmental organizations are ~institutionalized, apolitical and non-profit private structures, independent of any public authority, which carry out activities of public interest. They can be active in any field, such as science, education, social protection, economy, environment, child protection, etc. The subject of this paper is the non-governmental organizations acting in the field of child protection. In Sparleanu's opinion (2010: 186), they expanded after the fall of communism, adhering to the international model. This field aroused the interest of that time because of the large number of unwanted and abandoned children and the poor conditions in orphanages. The neo-protestant organizations had a special involvement in the social service system centered on the children's welfare, intensely financing this field. The international media campaigns presented the desolating situation of the Romanian institutionalized children, 46

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