First Lady Margareta Timofti, who is the president of honor of “Hospice Angelus” Foundation, has become involved in a project to identify volunteers for providing assistance to persons suffering from cancer and other diseases. The Foundation offers palliative care to persons suffering from diseases at advanced and terminal stages, IPN reports.
“We will initiate a project to identify volunteers, maybe among students, to go to children who cannot read alone to read a tale to them for example,” Margareta Timofti said in an interview for Radio Free Europe. She added that they already acquired books and CVs, with the help of sponsors, and will go to these children to offer them moral support, besides medical assistance.
Margareta Timofti stated she became involved in several projects in education and to promote books and reading. An academic reading room in English will be set up with the support of “Moldova AID” Foundation from North Carolina, the U.S. The hall will be opened at the Municipal Library “Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu”, when the books collected by Moldovans and Americans are delivered.
Another project involving the First Lady is the public library modernization project “Novoteca”. It is supported by the Foundation “Bill and Melinda Gates” that supplies the Moldovan libraries with computers. Margareta Timofti said she wants the library to become a community center, where those who do not have a computer at home will come to read a book, a newspaper or a magazine.
