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NGOs AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO HELP WOMAN EX-PRISONERS TO REINTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY
Chisinau. Former woman prisoners will be able to reintegrate into the society easier owing to the Project “A new approach to poverty reduction in Moldova - combined efforts of NGOs and Local Authorities”. The project is implemented in Moldova by the International Society for Human Rights (Moldavian Section (Chisinau, Moldova) in partnership with German public organizations: Gustav Stresemann Institut e.V. (GSI) - European Academy, Bonn and Pro NGO! e.V. The project is implemented in 2009 – 2010.
Women prisoners and ex-prisoners will get timely assistance, necessary skills and a profession that will contribute to their speedy reintegration into society and will reduce the poverty risk in the long term. Regular visits of children to their imprisoned mothers will strengthen mother-child relation and prevent the loss of relationship that has already been undermined by separation and will prepare them to live together in future.
At a news conference in Infotag Doctor Lubov Nemcinova (Moldavian Section of the International Society for Human Rights) remarked that the project’s objective consists in urging the local public authorities to cooperate with the non-governmental sector and to help women, who go at large.
“Very often the local administrations have no idea, which non-governmental organizations act in the region and how they can work together. We often make telephone calls to Mayor’s offices and ask them to help women, who have already served their sentence and want to return to their villages and to work there. Very often local administrations refuse to help us, as they have to solve more important problems”, she remarked.
In her words, 100 women out of 300, who are in the Rusca prison, participate in the project.
“We shall help them to meet children, as there were cases, when mothers knew nothing about their children. Forty-eight women will acquire hairdresser’s specialty. We hope to find financial resources to buy instruments and equipment for them and help them to become genuine hairdressers or barbers”, Nemcinova remarked.
Twenty seminars and ten roundtables will be conducted for non-governmental organizations and local public authorities.
Project manager Hans Born (Pro NGO! e.V) is sure that the project will help a part of Moldova’s population to combat poverty and the non-governmental sector – to efficiently cooperate with local public authorities in rendering assistance to vulnerable section of the population.
He remarked that the project budget constitutes 700 thousand euros, 75% of financial resources for the implementation of the project are provided by the EU and 25% - by Germany.
The International Society for Human Rights - Moldavian Section (Chisinau, Moldova) is a non-governmental organization, which was set up 1998 and registered with the Moldovan Ministry of Justice on February 12, 1999. The organization is the national section of International Society for Human Rights.
The project “A new approach to poverty reduction in Moldova - combined efforts of NGOs and Local Authorities” is a partnership project of the Gustav Stresemann Institut e.V. (GSI) - European Academy (Bonn, Germany), Pro NGO! e.V. (Cologne, Germany) and the International Society for Human Rights - Moldavian Section (Chisinau, Moldova). It is co-financed by the European Commission's programme “Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development”. The project started in December 2008 and will last 24 months.
