Children
Placing Orphans With Families Meets Resistance in Moldova
June 02, 2009By Elena Moldoveanu CHISINAU -- Thirty-seven children live in the run-down state orphanage in the village of Cupcui, some 80 kilometers south of Moldova's capital, Chisinau. Surprisingly, only one of them is actually an orphan. Many children in Moldovan...
- Moldova's Cupcui Orphanage: orphans whose parents are alive
June 01, 2009Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty features photos from a state orphanage in Moldova. Thirty-seven children live in the run-down state orphanage in the Moldovan village of Cupcui. But only one of them is actually an orphan. Many children in Moldovan...
Commission set up to monitor adoptions
January 22, 2009A special commission for adoptions was created under the Government to examine the accuracy of the adoption cases and their compliance with the international adoption procedure. The decision to set up the commission was approved by the Government on...
Moldovan children launch first report on observance of their rights
August 12, 2008The situation of children’s rights in Moldova has improved, but not well enough. This is one of the conclusions contained in the first report launched by Moldovan children on August 12. According to the report “Life in the Child&rsquo...
- July 09, 2008
Approximately 20 million lei has been allocated from the state budget this year for sending children from socially-vulnerable families to summer camps. This money was used to purchase 20,107 tickets to summer camps. Viorica Dumbraveanu, the head of...
Children with hearing deficiencies on visit to Ministry of Defense
May 28, 2008Fifty children hard of hearing from Cahul town are paying a visit to Chisinau at the initiative of the Ministry of Defense. The children study at the Cahul-based school for children with hearing deficiencies that has been under the patronage of the Ministry...
About one hundred Moldovan children adopted abroad, in 2007
May 02, 2008About one hundred Moldovan children were adopted abroad, in 2007, Adoption Section Head Eugenia Goncear from the Ministry of Social Protection has said to BASA-press. Only 15 children of those adopted abroad were somatically healthy, in 2007. &ldquo...
A Parliament solicitor will be busy just with children’s defense rights
March 21, 2008The Parliament has taken the decision, according to which, one Parliament solicitor will be busy just with children’s defense rights, DECA-press Agency transmits. The deputies hope that only in such a way it is possible to create a high level...
Most famous names in Ungheni district: Bianca, Crinu, Mirela, Daria, Alexei, Toprak, Fadi, Karian…
January 14, 2008In 2007, mother and fathers from the district of Ungheni preferred more to give their children Romanian names, names of some kings, according to the local General Register Office (GRO). According to the chief of GRO from Ungheni, Svetlana Andries, last...
Ski resorts raise prices, woo families
December 14, 2007U.S. skiing experts said higher lift ticket prices and increasing amounts of programs aimed at children are among the most recent changes facing the sport. Derek Taylor, the editor of Powder magazine, told USA Today that resorts including Aspen and...