Children and parents make puppets together

Fifteen children of preschool age, parents and educators of the kindergarten in Panasesti village of Straseni district participated Friday in a workshop and made hand puppets. They also watched a puppet show called “The Best Father”, Aurelia Guzun, specialist in community mobilization and communication at the Education for All – Fast Track Initiative Project, has told Info-Prim Neo. The workshop and the performance were held as part of the campaign “Help them Grow Great Persons through Theater”, which is conducted by the Ministry of Education and Youth in partnership with the Education for All – Fast Track Initiative Project. According to Aurelia Guzun, the aim of the activities organized in Panasesti was to contribute to the development of the children through theater and to engage the parents in this process. The children together with their parents made about 20 puppets for three tales: “The Goat with Three Kids”, “The Radish” and “Three Pigs”, while the show “The Best Father” was presented by the Madan dynasty of puppeteers: Maria, Andrei and Cozmin – the grandmother, the son and the grandchildren, together with actresses Irina Boiarchina and Ludmila Sorocean. The Education for All – Fast Track Initiative Project is implemented with a grant offered to Moldova by the Catalytic Fiduciary Fund. The grant is administered by the World Bank, while the activities of the project are carried out by the Ministry of Education and Youth with the assistance of UNICEF. The kindergarten in Panasesti is one of the 76 preschool education institutions in Moldova that are repaired and outfitted as part of the given project. Mobile phone carrier Moldcell is the partner of the campaign “Help them Grow Great Persons!”