Public association plans to invest €20m in social projects in Moldova

Jesuit priest Georg Sporschill, the founder of the association Concordia – Social Projects, comes to Chisinau on April 9, together with Austria's Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, to implement new social projects. Concordia is ready to invest about €20 million in setting up shelters for street children. Earlier, this organization invested in Moldova a similar amount in building the Childhood's Town and reconstructing a ward for children suffering from tuberculosis, Info-Prim Neo reports. The head of the Moldovan diaspora in Austria Olga Petrovski-Pargaru said priest Georg Sporschill implemented his first social projects in Romania. As he succeeded in changing the fate of thousands of Romanian children, he decided to set up the association Concordia – Social Projects in Moldova in 2004. The Austrian delegation wants to strengthen the cooperation with the new Moldovan Government and continue to socially reintegrate the children. In 2004, Concordia built the Childhood's Town in Parata village, on the bank of the Nistru. 300 abandoned children found a new home there, Olga Petrovski-Pargaru said. The town includes ten houses for children, a medical office, a kindergarten, a house for guests, a community center, a gymnasium and other rooms. 200 more children became residents of the town in 2006. The association also renovated a ward for children of the Chisinau tuberculosis hospital. From January 2007, it has helped the children suffering from tuberculosis who are treated at the Valerie Floor. Georg Sporschill was born in Voralberg, Austria. At the start of the 1980s, he began to erect shelters for homeless persons in Vienna and initiated projects for the unemployed. He implements similar projects in Germany, Romania and Ukraine.