The boarding school from Carpineni village, Hancesti district, is the first Moldovan institution of this kind which started to be transformed due to the Reform of the Child Care Residential System. A Day Center was set up in the institution, while the residential part has been reorganized, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the master of the boarding school, Tudor Tenu, the Day Center was set up by re-arranging a part of the entity. The Center is attended by 40 children daily, who returned into their biological or extended families, but need material backup. There they are assisted to do their homework, are fed and provided life skills. To make those children feel “at home”, the residential part was reorganized. The number of children in bed rooms decreased from 4-11 to 3-7. The pupils do their homework in residential rooms, not in class rooms as they used to. The authorities and the administration of the boarding school plan to separate education (school) from social services (the residential part of the Day Center). The school is to be transformed into a community entity and will merge with school 2 from the locality. The number of accommodated children has already been considerably reduced. Now there are 239 children, compared with 347 in 2006 and 415 in 2005. During 2007, 62 children were reintegrated into their biological or extended families, 45 finished the school, and 10 were sent to family-type orphanages. Since the beginning of 2008, 9 children came to the school, and 117 are to leave the institution till the end of the study year. The Carpineni boarding school was set up in 1961 and is one of those 19 in Moldova. The institution can host as many as 420 children. They come mostly from socially vulnerable families or are orphans. The Government adopted a Strategy and an Action Plan in 2007 on the Reform of the child care system from 2007 to 2012, pursuing to decrease the number of children growing up separately from their families till 2012 by 50 %, by integrating them into natural or extended families, instead of keeping them in boarding schools and orphanages. The Government also seeks to reorganize all the residential institutions for children. According to a last evaluation of residential institutions performed by UNICEF and the EU in 2006, 11,500 children grew up in those 67 residential institutions from Moldova. 10,000 of them had one or both parents alive. Most of the children cared for by the state – 5,300 – were lodging in those 19 boarding schools in the country.