Seven young people with disabilities were awarded at the international festival “Films without Barriers” for activism and prodigious work. Within a public-private partnership project implemented in September – November, the young people stapled informative leaflets on education without violence to electricity bills. About 700,000 families in Moldova were this way informed about the problem of domestic violence and the rights of children to grow and learn in a non-violent environment, IPN reports.
In the award ceremony, Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family Valentina Buliga thanked the Association “Motivatie” for contributing to the social inclusion of persons with disabilities during many years.
UNICEF Representative in Moldova Nune Mangasaryan said that society must offer this category the possibility of asserting themselves as the people can be talented despite health problems. The young people involved in the project showed that they have enormous work capacity, exceeding sometimes even the potential of perfectly healthy people. However, six of them are in wheelchairs, while one of them is hearing-impaired.
The representative of Gas Natural Fenosa Veronica Boaghi said the young people worked alongside the company’s employees. In this period, they showed they can do exactly what the company’s employees do. It already became a tradition for young people with disabilities of the Association “Motivatie” to manually make marthishors or spring amulets for the company’s staff at the beginning of spring.
The young people awarded in the festival are: Olga Fiscun, Anastasia Goreciva, Stefan Ciobanu, Diana Fulga, Boris Scvortsov, Oxana Coracula, and Nadejda Banari. They said that this project was a very nice experience. Though at first they were worried and even had doubts, they managed to quickly integrate into the staff and were supported by the employees.
On December 3, Moldova will celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
