Children’s ombudswoman demands thoroughly selecting educators for summer camps

The Ministry of Education, at the suggestion of children’s ombudswoman Tamara Plamadeala, worked out a plan of action for more rigorously selecting educations for summer camps, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a communiqué from the Center for Human Rights, most of the current educators are second- and third-year students who are by only 4-5 years older than the children resting in the camps. Tamara Plamadeala proposed organizing training courses for all the camp workers at the start of summer so as to prevent cases of abuse and use of violence and ensure the children’s security in the camps. While visiting a number of camps in Soroca district, the ombudswoman established that the administrators of summer camps supervise the children more attentively following the case of sexual abuse at the camp “Andries” in Orhei. In some of them, like the camp “Victoria” in Soroca town, the inspection is exaggerated. Three police officers visit the children there every day. The psychological state of the children is affected as the police officers walk through the camp and discuss with them, Tamara Plamadeala said. By the end of this month, the ombudswoman will monitor the summer camps in other districts so as to see how children’s rights to rest and security are observed and how the Ministry of Education’s plan of action is implemented.