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CIS
Moldova
Management of Children's Day-Care Center
Outline: 30% of the population work abroad for money because of unstable
economic conditions, while grandparents or relatives take care of the
children. However, as there is no system or institution that protects the
children, there have been many cases in the farming areas, of the foster
families selling these children when they became desperate for money.
Children whose parents are working abroad cannot enter orphanages because
the parents are alive, nor can they go to school because there is no money
to buy school materials, clothing or food. In order to save children from
becoming victims of human traffic, WFWP felt the need to build a facility to
protect them, which became the Children's Day-Care Center.
It was opened in Cazanesti village, Telenesti district in 2001. WFWP rents a part
of a public elementary school building as the center, gives clothes and
underwear to needy children or those whose parents are abroad, sends them to
school, feeds them after classes, and provides them with a place to rest and
study. Some 30-40 students come to the center daily where counselors take
care of them. The village is taking an interest because of the notable
improvement in the attitude of children, who are taken care of by the
center.
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