A CHILD ASKS SANTA CLAUS FOR FOOD DURING CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION AMONG ROMANIAN STREET CHILDREN

A child asks Santa Claus for food in front of a line of Romanian street children waiting for a free warm meal and Christmas presents offered December 24, 2001 by a charity organization for more than 150 of Bucharest's street children and homeless people. Twelve years after the collapse of the Communist regime thousands of street children remain in desperate need of the necessities of life. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti