A multimedia exhibition called “My Family” was organized on October 7 in the Onisifor Ghibu Library from Chisinau by the ARTIStudio Association. The expo comprises 25 photos and 22 graphic works plus three cartoon premieres filmed by children and youths from aged from 5 to 25 years, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the organizers, the exhibition pursues promote the child's rights, especially the right to have a family. The exhibition is part of a project “My Family” financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Moldova and the “Terre des Hommes” Foundation. It wants to increase the participation of youths in raising the level of awareness of the negative consequences of the migration over whole society, especially over children and youths. 20 children and adolescents will be involved in making a cartoon, 40 youths will make pictures, as 20 of them will edit the material. On October 7, three cartoons were shown as they were produced by the poem “The Baby Birds” by Grigore Vieru. The painters were Arina Colibaba (5), Amanda Farah (9), Vlada Chihai (5), Nichita Suhin (5), by the poem “Nobody's alone” by Ion Hadarca painted by - Victoria Loghin (11), Mihaela Cirja (11), Vasile Scutaru (14), Sanda Zahar (14). “Paper Dream” was painted by Arteom Cebanu, Victor Bivol, Ion Festicanu and others. The youths having participated in the photo workshop of the project selected 25 pictures made at creation camps. “The family should be a foundation for the harmonious growth of the child. The most adequate environment for the development of a child is his own family,” says the director of ARTIStudio, Larisa Glinca. The statistics show that some 177,000 Moldovan children are affected by their parents emigrating to work. The last couple of years, the number of children growing without both parents doubled, and they account for some 30% of the total number of minors.