Partnership for the future
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A group of children of the Cahul boarding school visited the news agency Info-Prim Neo on Friday. On the occasion of the Ester holidays, the children brought a small gift to the editorial staff in gratitude for the support in holding the fundraising campaign “You Build the Future”.
The girls brought a basket with crocheted things, red eggs and greetings with thanks. The children shared such gifts to the major partners of the campaign. “We wanted to make a small surprise for the kindhearted persons that help us transform the boarding school into social apartments for the children that cannot stay with their parents,” said Larisa Platon aged 15.
“The sun touches gently every flower making it fresh and alive, while God makes the people feel love and be kind. Value the light in your life,” Ecaterina Basarab wished us.
Most of the children of the boarding school will go home for the holidays. Ana Leovchina told us she is waiting anxiously for the holidays as she will visit her aunt and sister. After blessing the Easter cake and red eggs at the church, the family will go for a picnic in the forest.
This year, the teachers of the school decided to take the children that have no relatives to celebrate the holidays with them at their home, said Galina Niculiseanu, deputy director for education. So, this year all the 100 children of the boarding school will observe Easter in the family.
“You Build the Future” campaign is conducted by the public organization EveryChild Moldova in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child. Anatol Mamaliga, PR manager for EveryChild Moldova, said that about 130,000 lei have been collected so far. The money was donated mainly by private individuals through the boxes placed in the Green Hills, Metro, Fourchette-M and N1 stores, and by Union Fenosa.
Boxes remained in stores in Chisinau, Balti and Soroca. “We are also looking for possibilities of diversifying the methods of collecting funds and the campaign was extended until January 2010. We cordially thank all the kindhearted people that donated money and call on other companies to express willingness and trust in us,” Anatol Mamaliga said.
The boarding school in Cahul started to be reorganized in the summer of 2007. The school is transformed into a complex of social services aimed at creating an environment close to the family and the community for the development of the children. It will be a temporary placement center consisting of five family modules for children younger than 16, orphans or children that remained temporarily without parental care, and eight social apartments for orphan graduates of the school. The block of study is being transformed into placement center from the funds obtained by EveryChild from foreign donors. It will be opened on June 1. The construction of the social apartments will start in May.
EveryChild together with the administration of the school and the General Division of Education and Youth and the Social Assistance Division in Cahul take steps to integrate the children living in the boarding school into other schools in the community and reintegrate them into the biological or extended families. From September 1, all the 103 children of the boarding school have gone to community schools.
