10 years of Hope Island

The International Organization for Migration, in cooperation with Moldovan officials responsible for education, unfolds a campaign to raise the youth's interest for vocational schools. Students from the vocational school “Insula Sperantelor” (Hope Island) were invited to an open-air presentation on Wednesday. They competed in hair-dressing and nail-painting, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the schoolmaster, Lyubov Bulah, the event was meant to inform youths on the school and demonstrate what its students are able of. At the same time, they marked their school's 10th anniversary. Although with hearing defficiencies, the future cake-makers demonstrated the cakes they made and distributing to the guests. Among them: the chief of the Moldovan mission of the IOM, Martin Wyss, and Chisinau's deputy mayor, Igor Lupulciuc. An IOM official, Irina Todorov, has said the festivity is part of the multiple actions unfolded in Moldova on the occasion of the Youth Year as 2008 was declared. The IOM allocated 7,000 lei in this respect. The Insula Sperantelor vocational school employs 42 teachers, while it has been graduated by 6,000 people during its 10 years.