Victims of abuse and trafficking find refuge at Psychosocial Center in Vulcanesti

The victims of family abuse and trafficking and persons from socially underprivileged families from Vulcanesti are able to take refuge at the local day Psychosocial Center, where they are offered financial, psychological and legal assistance, psychologist and coordinator of the project Nadejda Mocanu said during a press tour organized by the Association of Independent Press, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Our beneficiaries encounter different kinds of problems. They include abused women, who endure the husbands’ beatings because they do not have where to go, children beaten by the parents, minor girls who remained pregnant, persons who do not have a place to live and even two persons suffering from AIDS. Only in Vulcanesti alone, there are 350 socially deprived families, 37 of which are very poor,” said Nadejda Mocanu. She also said that most of the beneficiaries did not know where to go to look for help. The Center provided legal assistance to many women who risked remaining without a home and without the children as a result of divorce. It also helped many persons to find a new home or a job. The Center was opened with the financial assistance of the UNDP within the Support to Victims of Violence and Trafficking Project. The allocated financial resources were used up by August, but the Center will continue work. Local individuals and economic entities will provide financing. “My first husband died. I remained alone with a small child. I lived in Ukraine, but my husband’s relatives did not want to see me there and I returned home. I went to my mother’s house, where there lived my sister and her husband, but they told me to leave. I had to get married the second time. My new husband started to drink alcohol. He came home under the influence and beat me and terrorized my son from the first marriage. He sold property and bought drink with the obtained money. I gave birth to two more boys. At first, he did not allow me to take the second son home from the maternity hospital,” said one of the beneficiaries of the Center. Another woman confessed that her husband broke her leg and she became invalid. She could not even go out to cry for help. But those from the Center helped her. According to the Center’s jurist Roman Tiutin, more than 700 persons have benefited from legal aid at the Center. The beneficiaries are taught to use the computer and can attend bookkeeping courses. The victims of abuse are helped to integrate into society. The day Psychosocial Center in Vulcanesti started work three years ago.