“In Chisinau municipality the situation of the children in difficulty tends to improve and I want to thank people for not being indifferent toward these kids. I call on everyone to support to the extent of their possibilities the charity activities in Chisinau and help these children”, Svetlana Chifa, the head of the municipal Child Protection Division, has stated for Info-Prim Neo. According to Svetlana Chifa, the Division succeeded lately in improving cooperation with all the relevant stakeholders. “In the first half of this year we managed to discover 361 children in difficulty, as compared to 530 during the whole last year. Also, to the best of my knowledge, we managed to considerably reduce the number of cases of child abandonment at birth”. The official further said that the Division put an emphasis on promoting the service of family placement, when children are placed in family-type care. “This year we facilitated 19 national adoptions, and 6 other children were placed in family-type care. For six months in a row, none of the orphan children has left the municipal Placement Home back to the orphanage, because we manage to find everyone a family”, said Svetlana Chifa. She added that the Division, helped by specialized organizations and the City Council, was also able to pilot several new services. “In particular I'm talking about the day care for the children with special needs, which helps the parents get a job and go to work while being sure that their children are in safe care during the day. In August we developed a placement service for children aged six to thirty months, and thanks to the help of a donor, we also started to implement a very important service, and namely mobile teams providing at-home services to children with special needs”. According Svetlana Chifa, future objectives include increasing benefits for children with special needs and, in general, financing for child protection activities.