National Center for Children and Youth opens doors after renovation

The Chisinau-based National Center for Children and Youth was inaugurated after renovation. On Saturday, two hours before the arrival of the officials, works on the façade of the central building were still going on. The center’s director Aurelia Hancu has told Info-Prim Neo that the reconstructed building located at 169 Stephan the Great Boulevard will provide services for more than 2,500 children that will do choreography, music, theater, ballet, decorative-applicative arts, technical creation, tourism, naturalism and other activities. The center is open to children and youth aged between 3 and 32, including disabled ones. “Our renovated center is the only one in Europe. There is no other such center. The restoration has lasted for less than a year. During this period, there were created extraordinary rooms: conference halls, computer rooms, the Hall of the Senate, an electronic library, workshops for international activities. The center also has rooms adapted for children with disabilities, special toilets, ballet halls, showers for dancers, etc,” Aurelia Hancu said. The studies for children at the center are free of charge. The informative center and timetable of the classes will be situated in the institution’s hall, where the children will choose the activities they like. The National Center for Children and Youth had been reconstructed during 2008, which was declared the Year of Youth on the initiative of President Vladimir Voronin, who attended the inauguration ceremony. Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanai, First Deputy Prime Minister Victor Stepaniuc and Minister of Education Larisa Savga were also among those attending. The center is a member of the European Association for Leisure Time Institutions of Children and Youth (EAICY). During the National Youth Forum held in November this year, the center was granted the status of methodological and logistic center for youth.