After the pandemic period of 2020-2021, when no camps were organized for children and adolescents, this summer they are expected to reopen. However, the price of a ticket will be 47% higher than in 2019. Under a draft by the Ministry of Education and Research, the daily cost in summer camps has increased from 211 to 310 lei. At the same time, the daily cost in sport schools’ camps has increased from 51 to 370 lei.
The summer camps for children and adolescents will be financed from the state and local budgets, from the fees paid by parents and from the resources allocated by enterprises, organizations and associations, while the authorities of each administrative-territorial unit will set the ticket prices.
The tickets purchased by the National Social Insurance Company will be distributed to the National Confederation of Trade Unions, which will then distribute the tickets to the primary trade unions and companies.
In addition to the tickets distributed by CNAS, the public administration authorities are recommended to give away 25% of the total tickets to children from families receiving social assistance, but also children under guardianship, those placed in family-type services or in temporary placement centers. Some of the tickets will be free for children with remarkable academic achievements.
Local public authorities can sell the rest of the tickets for 20% of their price.
The Ministry of Education will purchase one hundred tickets and will cover the costs of round-trip transportation in Moldova for Romanian students, under a 1992 bilateral governmental agreement. It will also buy a tourist package for one hundred students from Romania to visit tourist attractions in Moldova. Another 300 tickets will be purchased for students from general education institutions in the eastern districts of the Republic of Moldova and the city of Bender, subordinated to MEC. 150 tickets will be offered to children from Ukraine, based on the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of Ukraine on cooperation in the fields of education, science and culture, signed in 1993.
