The National Children’s Library “Ion Creangă” develops and diversifies its offer of services and programs, especially those based on information technology. This is possible thanks to a cross-border project intended for children and adolescents affected by the war in Ukraine, which was launched at the library, IPN reports.

Through the cross-border project “Ukraine-Moldova: A multisectoral approach for children and adolescents affected by war”, carried out with support from and in cooperation with WeWorld Moldova, the library received six laptops equipped with the necessary software, headphones and other accessories, a color printer, a router for Internet connection. Thanks to this donation, refugee children and adolescents, as well as those from the local community, will benefit from robotics programs, media education, digital literacy, design and quiz creation, Romanian language courses, the library informed.

Andrei Kistol, secretary of state at the Ministry of Culture, said that this project comes to support children, especially refugee children.

The project’s partners noted that this library was chosen for this project because it already has a wide range of educational services for children and professional librarians.

The launch was attended by students from grade 1 “A” of the Theoretical Lyceum “Mikhail Kotsiubynsky”.