{"id":438046,"date":"2015-11-18T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/?p=438046"},"modified":"2015-11-18T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T07:00:43","slug":"the-hidden-heroes-of-moldova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-hidden-heroes-of-moldova\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden heroes of Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>This week we celebrate the vital role played by British charities and NGOs and their Moldovan partners in protecting and improving the quality of life of vulnerable people in the Republic of Moldova.\u00a0 Around a dozen of the most active will participate in the third annual forum for UK charities at the British Embassy on 18 November.\u00a0 This year the focus is on increasing the dialogue between the charities and Moldovan policy makers and the donor community.<\/p>\n<p>We have a saying that \u2018charity begins at home\u2019 i.e. you look after your family and friends first.\u00a0 So why are there so many British charities working in Moldova?\u00a0 There around 40 British charitable organisations or individuals working in Moldova.\u00a0 Some, like Help Age International or the Salvation Army, work in scores of countries and have done so for years.\u00a0 Other medium sized organisations such as Lumos, ChildAid, Link to Hope and Hope and Homes for Children\/Copil Communitatea Familia (CCF) work in a handful of countries or a region.\u00a0 These type of organisations not only work in the field targeting vulnerable individuals or groups of people, but they also work at a policy level with the national and municipal authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Some organisations are faith-based (Salvation Army, Christian Response to Eastern Europe (CR2EE), Blythswood Care) which have close links to local churches.\u00a0 Blythswood is an amazing story of church-to-church assistance over the last decade between a small community in the island of Stornoway in the far north of Scotland and Nisporeni.\u00a0 But it is a link that has also benefited road safety in Moldova as a whole with the provision of 12 fire engines from Scotland equipped with vehicle cutting equipment and 6 ambulances too.\u00a0 \u00a0 When you put this alongside the 8 fire engines with cutting equipment provided by Fire Aid and EASST, nearly 1 in 10 of Moldova\u2019s fire engines come from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been dedicated missionaries such as Chris and Helen Ducker in Dancu and Sarata Razesi who left Moldova last year after 7 years and Matthew and Helen Skirton who earlier this year left Moldova after 20 years.\u00a0 \u00a0 Their dedication helped revitalise their communities and provided essential \u2018life support\u2019 in the form of hot meals and warm clothes for the elderly.\u00a0 They also encouraged small enterprises by securing start-up funds because people couldn\u2019t get small loans from Moldovan banks. \u00a0 Only one British missionary is left here now, I think, and that is Sharon Eason in Balti who has done some amazing work protecting young women and the elderly in Riscani and Risipeni respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ambasador-anglia.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ambasador-anglia.jpg\" alt=\"ambasador anglia\" width=\"960\" height=\"657\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others specialise in providing support to particular groups of vulnerable people such as children at risk (CCF, Lumos, ChildAid) who are working to close down children\u2019s institutions and provide alternative family-based care systems so that children can grow up in a loving family. \u00a0 MAD-Aid\u2019s Phoenix Centre in Riscani and the Tony Hawks Centre in Chisinau work with children with disabilities and are the only two modern day-care centres in the country that offer services along Western standards.\u00a0 And Hospice Angelus, whose UK partner is Hospices of Hope, is the main provider of palliative care and support in Moldova for children and adults with life-limiting diseases.\u00a0 Other charities such as CR2EE and The Moldova Project target individual families that often fall through the cracks of social support provided by local social services.<\/p>\n<p>There are other voluntary organisations (including schools) who do not have a permanent presence here, but who come back year after year to deliver aid or support a local community. \u00a0 For example, TEECH have been coming to Moldova since 2008 to dig latrines for schools and kindergartens and build indoor, modern toilets and showers in neglected villages. \u00a0 There are two schools Willink in Berkshire and Abingdon in Oxfordshire who, with their Moldovan partner AGAPE,\u00a0 bring around 20 sixth formers\u00a0 (17-18 year olds) here every July to look after children in the local school in Tintereni and\u00a0 Ialoveni and teach them English and supervise other activities for a week in the long summer holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Last Christmas at least five charities (Salvation Army, CR2EE, TEECH, Link to Hope and Blythswood Care) delivered between them over 25,0000 Christmas presents to children and adults across Moldova who would otherwise not receive anything at Christmas.\u00a0 These presents are shoe-boxes filled with small presents and essentials (including soap, toothbrush and toothpaste) that have been donated and prepared by hand by ordinary British people. \u00a0 So that\u2019s around 10,000 people all across Britain put thought and care into preparing such presents for Moldovan people who they have never met, including my own family in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Why do Brits prepare Christmas gifts for people they\u2019ve never met, or give up their fortnight summer holiday building toilets in the heat of summer, or spend every day raising money for the underprivileged for people 2,000 km from the UK? \u00a0 Why did members of the UK\u2019s postal workers\u2019 union drive lorries packed with specialist equipment from the UK all the way from the UK to the Tony Hawks Centre in Chisinau and the Phoenix Centre in Riscani?\u00a0 Why do they give so generously?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ambasador-anglia-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ambasador-anglia-1.jpg\" alt=\"ambasador anglia 1\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s in our nature, or in our values such as tolerance of others and participating in community life.\u00a0 Certainly many people who give up their time to come to Moldova and help those less fortunate than themselves do so because they want to give something back to society.\u00a0 But there is also a tradition in British culture: charities such as the Salvation Army and Barnardo\u2019s date back to the 1860s as does the Trades Union Congress which started to lobby for improvements in working conditions during the Industrial Revolution. \u00a0 In the mid and late Victorian era, whilst social commentators such as Charles Dickens and the German philosopher Friedrich Engels shone a light on the shocking conditions of Britain\u2019s working classes, altruistic entrepreneurs such as the chocolatiers Joseph Rowntree and George Cadbury and\u00a0 Unilever&#8217;s British founder Lord Leverhulme, built model villages for their workers and initiated social improvements.<\/p>\n<p>And so when I see the continued cycle of corruption in this country , the lack of political will to reform and I contrast it with the children in villages that I\u2019ve met who can\u2019t afford shoes or live in hovels, it makes me angry for two main reasons.\u00a0 First, because thousands of ordinary (not wealthy) British citizens are trying to make this country good. \u00a0 Second, because this country is not short of money.\u00a0 I just have to look at the luxury cars in the car park of my local gym to know that.\u00a0 The problem is that it is concentrated in the hands of the few and there is not enough money for social or infrastructure programmes. \u00a0 The introduction of a much fairer and equitable tax system coupled with more accountability and transparency in Government departments and agencies would go some way to alleviating the situation.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s one more problem.\u00a0 Whilst I\u2019m immensely proud of the role of ordinary Britons in the development of Moldova, I do feel that a dependency culture is developing here that is worrying. \u00a0 It\u2019s at a local level: poverty-stricken villages who hope that someone will come and make things right for them.\u00a0 And it\u2019s at a national government level: which asks for even more money from the international community, instead of reforming the institutions to deliver more efficient and better services to the public.\u00a0 So may be charity does begin at home after all, that is that Moldovans can play just as an important role as the charities \u2013 its hidden heroes &#8211;\u00a0 do in improving this country.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like more details of UK charities and their Moldovan partner organisations please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charities4moldova.com\">www.charities4moldova.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>This week we celebrate the vital role played by British charities and NGOs and their Moldovan partners in protecting and improving the quality of life of vulnerable people in the Republic of Moldova.\u00a0 Around a dozen of the most active will participate in the third annual forum for UK charities at the British Embassy on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":438049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>This week we celebrate the vital role played by British charities and NGOs and their Moldovan partners in protecting and improving the quality of life of vulnerable people in the Republic of Moldova.\u00a0 Around a dozen of the most active will participate in the third annual forum for UK charities at the British Embassy on 18 November.\u00a0 This year the focus is on increasing the dialogue between the charities and Moldovan policy makers and the donor community.<\/p>\n<p>We have a saying that \u2018charity begins at home\u2019 i.e. you look after your family and friends first.\u00a0 So why are there so many British charities working in Moldova?\u00a0 There around 40 British charitable organisations or individuals working in Moldova.\u00a0 Some, like Help Age International or the Salvation Army, work in scores of countries and have done so for years.\u00a0 Other medium sized organisations such as Lumos, ChildAid, Link to Hope and Hope and Homes for Children\/Copil Communitatea Familia (CCF) work in a handful of countries or a region.\u00a0 These type of organisations not only work in the field targeting vulnerable individuals or groups of people, but they also work at a policy level with the national and municipal authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Some organisations are faith-based (Salvation Army, Christian Response to Eastern Europe (CR2EE), Blythswood Care) which have close links to local churches.\u00a0 Blythswood is an amazing story of church-to-church assistance over the last decade between a small community in the island of Stornoway in the far north of Scotland and Nisporeni.\u00a0 But it is a link that has also benefited road safety in Moldova as a whole with the provision of 12 fire engines from Scotland equipped with vehicle cutting equipment and 6 ambulances too.\u00a0 \u00a0 When you put this alongside the 8 fire engines with cutting equipment provided by Fire Aid and EASST, nearly 1 in 10 of Moldova\u2019s fire engines come from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been dedicated missionaries such as Chris and Helen Ducker in Dancu and Sarata Razesi who left Moldova last year after 7 years and Matthew and Helen Skirton who earlier this year left Moldova after 20 years.\u00a0 \u00a0 Their dedication helped revitalise their communities and provided essential \u2018life support\u2019 in the form of hot meals and warm clothes for the elderly.\u00a0 They also encouraged small enterprises by securing start-up funds because people couldn\u2019t get small loans from Moldovan banks. \u00a0 Only one British missionary is left here now, I think, and that is Sharon Eason in Balti who has done some amazing work protecting young women and the elderly in Riscani and Risipeni respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ambasador-anglia.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ambasador-anglia.jpg\" alt=\"ambasador anglia\" width=\"960\" height=\"657\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others specialise in providing support to particular groups of vulnerable people such as children at risk (CCF, Lumos, ChildAid) who are working to close down children\u2019s institutions and provide alternative family-based care systems so that children can grow up in a loving family. \u00a0 MAD-Aid\u2019s Phoenix Centre in Riscani and the Tony Hawks Centre in Chisinau work with children with disabilities and are the only two modern day-care centres in the country that offer services along Western standards.\u00a0 And Hospice Angelus, whose UK partner is Hospices of Hope, is the main provider of palliative care and support in Moldova for children and adults with life-limiting diseases.\u00a0 Other charities such as CR2EE and The Moldova Project target individual families that often fall through the cracks of social support provided by local social services.<\/p>\n<p>There are other voluntary organisations (including schools) who do not have a permanent presence here, but who come back year after year to deliver aid or support a local community. \u00a0 For example, TEECH have been coming to Moldova since 2008 to dig latrines for schools and kindergartens and build indoor, modern toilets and showers in neglected villages. \u00a0 There are two schools Willink in Berkshire and Abingdon in Oxfordshire who, with their Moldovan partner AGAPE,\u00a0 bring around 20 sixth formers\u00a0 (17-18 year olds) here every July to look after children in the local school in Tintereni and\u00a0 Ialoveni and teach them English and supervise other activities for a week in the long summer holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Last Christmas at least five charities (Salvation Army, CR2EE, TEECH, Link to Hope and Blythswood Care) delivered between them over 25,0000 Christmas presents to children and adults across Moldova who would otherwise not receive anything at Christmas.\u00a0 These presents are shoe-boxes filled with small presents and essentials (including soap, toothbrush and toothpaste) that have been donated and prepared by hand by ordinary British people. \u00a0 So that\u2019s around 10,000 people all across Britain put thought and care into preparing such presents for Moldovan people who they have never met, including my own family in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Why do Brits prepare Christmas gifts for people they\u2019ve never met, or give up their fortnight summer holiday building toilets in the heat of summer, or spend every day raising money for the underprivileged for people 2,000 km from the UK? \u00a0 Why did members of the UK\u2019s postal workers\u2019 union drive lorries packed with specialist equipment from the UK all the way from the UK to the Tony Hawks Centre in Chisinau and the Phoenix Centre in Riscani?\u00a0 Why do they give so generously?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ambasador-anglia-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ambasador-anglia-1.jpg\" alt=\"ambasador anglia 1\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s in our nature, or in our values such as tolerance of others and participating in community life.\u00a0 Certainly many people who give up their time to come to Moldova and help those less fortunate than themselves do so because they want to give something back to society.\u00a0 But there is also a tradition in British culture: charities such as the Salvation Army and Barnardo\u2019s date back to the 1860s as does the Trades Union Congress which started to lobby for improvements in working conditions during the Industrial Revolution. \u00a0 In the mid and late Victorian era, whilst social commentators such as Charles Dickens and the German philosopher Friedrich Engels shone a light on the shocking conditions of Britain\u2019s working classes, altruistic entrepreneurs such as the chocolatiers Joseph Rowntree and George Cadbury and\u00a0 Unilever&#8217;s British founder Lord Leverhulme, built model villages for their workers and initiated social improvements.<\/p>\n<p>And so when I see the continued cycle of corruption in this country , the lack of political will to reform and I contrast it with the children in villages that I\u2019ve met who can\u2019t afford shoes or live in hovels, it makes me angry for two main reasons.\u00a0 First, because thousands of ordinary (not wealthy) British citizens are trying to make this country good. \u00a0 Second, because this country is not short of money.\u00a0 I just have to look at the luxury cars in the car park of my local gym to know that.\u00a0 The problem is that it is concentrated in the hands of the few and there is not enough money for social or infrastructure programmes. \u00a0 The introduction of a much fairer and equitable tax system coupled with more accountability and transparency in Government departments and agencies would go some way to alleviating the situation.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s one more problem.\u00a0 Whilst I\u2019m immensely proud of the role of ordinary Britons in the development of Moldova, I do feel that a dependency culture is developing here that is worrying. \u00a0 It\u2019s at a local level: poverty-stricken villages who hope that someone will come and make things right for them.\u00a0 And it\u2019s at a national government level: which asks for even more money from the international community, instead of reforming the institutions to deliver more efficient and better services to the public.\u00a0 So may be charity does begin at home after all, that is that Moldovans can play just as an important role as the charities \u2013 its hidden heroes &#8211;\u00a0 do in improving this country.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like more details of UK charities and their Moldovan partner organisations please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charities4moldova.com\">www.charities4moldova.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div 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