A community center for children and youth will be opened in Iargara town of Leova district on October 3. The project was initiated by the Chisinau-based day center for children with locomotion disabilities “Speranta” with the help of the British organization “Children on the Edge”. Project coordinator Liliana Simcov has told Info-Prim Neo that the community center will provide services for 20-25 permanent beneficiaries aged between 7 and 17 a day. These are mainly children exposed to the risk of being trafficked (children that remained without parental care, that do not receive sufficient attention from parents or live in poor conditions), but also children with physical and mental disabilities. Other children are also expected at the center. According to Liliana Simcov, the children will be helped to prepare their homework for the next day and will have supper. They will also be engaged in inclusion and physical development exercises, will take part in workshops and will learn life habits. The children will be also offered psychological assistance and kinetotherapy. The community center in Iargara will have a social assistant, two psycho-pedagogues, a psycho- speech therapist and a kinetotherapist. The center is located in a four-room house that was purchased, repaired and specially adapted for the purpose. The bathroom, kitchen and dining room are in the annex. The center is a pilot-project in a future network of such centers, the project coordinator said. It was set up in Iargara because there are very few community centers for children in southern Moldova. Leova district has no such center. Also, Iargara is close to the Romanian border and there were cases of trafficking in children, Liliana Simcov said.