The public association “Solitary Parents” reiterated their call to reopen the kindergartens in a protest mounted in front of the Government Building under the theme “Children die, but Government keeps silent” on July 1, IPN reports.
In the protest, the association’s executive director Ala Revenco said those from the Government didn’t undertake to take care of the children who were sent home after the kindergartens were closed. “We have social institutions in this state and they should enable us to work, to leave the children in safe conditions and to keep them busy while we are at work,” she stated.
According to Ala Revenco, not even the two cases of death of children of preschool age made the Government look for solutions for the parents, but these could have been avoided if the kindergartens had worked. Ala Revenco referred to the five-year-old girl who died crushed under a wardrobe while at home alone and the six-year-old boy from Hâncești who was found dead in the outhouse. In both of the cases, the parents were at work.
“Regrettably, the Government didn’t respond to the petition we filed on June 2, by which we asked to come up with emergency measures within 15 days. Today it is the 30th day and we got only an answer from the Ministry of Education, which said that a set of sanitary epidemiological measures and norms are being worked out for reopening the kindergartens,” stated Ala Revenco, noting the state shows not the care for children, but the reopening of markets, malls and public eating places is among its priorities.
By the petition, the activists also asked to arrange a special work program for parents in correlation with the working program of kindergartens during the pandemic.
The preschool education institutions stopped work on March 11 owing to the epidemiological situation. About 150,000 children haven’t attended kindergartens since then.
