Disabled persons and orphans can sell crafts at special outlet

The persons with disabilities, the orphans and children from socially vulnerable families will be able to sell their handmade works at a specialized shop. The first shop of the kind is located on Vasile Lupu Street in Chisinau and was opened on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities marked on May 5, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting the Invalids Association “Egida”. The shop is a first step made as part of the Association’s project to open a chain of shops to sell things made by invalids and children in need, implemented in concert with Intelcons Prim SRL The sale of souvenirs will constitute a substantial material and moral support for these persons and will offer them the possibility of showing their talents for making things from wood, bone, glass, osier, clay, etc. “The idea of creating a chain of shops to sell our works is an important event because we will be able not only to make money, but also to share creative ideas,” said student Andrei Zorin, who is a first-degree invalid. “This outlet will have one more important social task: now the visitors will make sure that the disabled persons can earn their living through decent work as all the others.” According to the Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child, more than 169,000 persons with disabilities live in Moldova at preset. Out of them, 13,000 are children. Each fifth child benefits from a pension of 580 lei, which is much lower than the minimum subsistence level (1,368.1 lei in 2008). Many of them need to be permanently looked after.