Schools don’t receive donations from businesses because of an imperfect legislation which taxes both donors and beneficiaries so that businessmen aren’t motivated to help schools. Director of the “Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra” Lyceum in Chisinau, Ana Ivlev, told Info-Prim Neo that previously it was much easier to initiate partnerships with companies, which were more open to help financially and materially the education institutions. “I remember the times when the school’s community was very important. We had 3 companies in the neighborhood and all the problems regarding furniture, transport or other activities were solved when the director asked the partners and they helped the school”, she said. Ana Ivlev says she sometimes calls the parents of some pupils, who own businesses, to help in various activities. “They tell us they don’t have legal grounds to make donations. For example, we had an international festival of Hispanic theater and in order to rent a theater and costumes, we needed 5000 lei. When we asked someone for financial support, we were told to bring one kind of certificate, then another kind of certificate”. The director thinks the legislation on sponsorship isn’t good enough and must be modified. “We must beg the parents for 10 or 20 or 50 lei. And then others talk about corruption. The parents pay because they want activities for their children”, said Ana Ivlev. She added that previously there was a provision in legislation about donations to schools, but the current legislation doesn’t clearly define charity or a philanthropic action. Everything is bureaucratized and people give up when they see how many papers they need to gather if they want to obtain some help.