[https://m.dw.com/en/as-romania-votes-millions-still-live-in-poverty/a-55835510](https://m.dw.com/en/as-romania-votes-millions-still-live-in-poverty/a-55835510) Cristina, 19, who is addicted to huffing Aurolac paint like many other Romanian homeless youth, climbs out of the underground canals where she lives with her cousins and other youth. "It's hard to live down here," she said. "We don't have water to wash ourselves and sometimes we have nothing to eat." Of Bucharest's 6,000 homeless, some 1,000 are children.