Socially disfavored young people will be helped to socially and professionally integrate through a project that is jointly implemented by civil society organizations from both banks of the Nistru River. Director of the Public Association “Demos” Liliana Samcov, in a news conference at IPN, said the project covers 11 districts from the right bank of the Nistru and the whole Transnistrian region.
“We want to create a network of six providers of social-professional integration services for socially disfavored people, who will work concurrently on the left and right banks of the Nistru. These providers will work very intensely with 275 beneficiaries, young people from socially vulnerable categories, to integrate them socially and professionally and make a change for the better in life, from vulnerability to a decent life,” stated Liliana Samcov.
The social-professional integration service represents a set of services and activities designed to support socially disadvantaged people aged between 18 and 30 in the process of transition to independent life. The service lays emphasis on the development of social skills. “The target group includes the orphans, young people who lack family support and those who served time in jail,” said the director of “Demos”.
Jarek Domanski, project manager at the EU Delegation to Moldova, said the project launched by “Demos” is one of the six projects implemented within the broad Support to Confidence Building Measures Program. Starting with 2009, the European Union has made effort to build confidence between the people living on both banks of the Nistru so as to break stereotypes and build invisible bridges.
The project “Joint initiatives of civil society organizations on both banks of the Nistru to socially and professionally integrate disfavored young people from the Republic of Moldova” is implemented by the Public Association “Demos” in partnership with the associations “Amici dei Bambini Moldova” and “SERDTE” of Bender, with the financial support of the EU and Caritas Vienna.
The project will last for 28 months (November 2016 – February 2018) and has a budget of €738,000. Of this sum, €590,000 is a grant provided by the European Union, while the other part of the financing is covered by Caritas Vienna.
