Thermal station built from US resources will provide heat for orphans in Leova

A new autonomous gas-powered station will supply the Boarding School in Leova town with hot water and with thermal energy in winter. Until present, the school was being heated with coal and there was no hot water. The project was implemented by the Global Fund for Children in Moldova in concert with the authorities of the American state of North Carolina, in partnership with the Boston-based organisation Broad Horizons. The investment amounts to about MDL 1.2 million (about USD 100,000). Iuliana Gospodin, director of the school, said during the inauguration on Tuesday, May 22, that the Boarding School is the last education institutions in the town to be connected to the natural gas network. The thermal station will enable to maintain a recommended constant temperature in the classrooms and living rooms during the cold season, reducing the heating expenses. “The construction of the station is an important milestone in the relations of friendship and cooperation between Moldova and North Carolina,” said US Ambassador Michael Kirby. Ray West of the Global Fund for Children in Moldova says that he invests in the children’s future for selfish reasons. “Ten years ago, I came to Moldova for a project and I fell in love with this country and with its people. I knew that I would be able to return to this country only by initiating and implementing projects of this kind here,” Ray West said. A number of 421 children study in the Leova Boarding School at present. Most of them are orphans.