Mother and Child Centre Chisinau

Mother and Child Centre ChisinauDuring the day, our centre looks after infants aged between 0 and 3 whose mothers would otherwise have abandoned them as they have neither a job nor a place to stay. Many of the infants arrive at our centre in a pitiful state and need to be nursed back to health. During the day, the children slowly settle in with our loving team of staff.

National adoption and foster care programme

National adoption and foster family programmeTogether with the national child protection commission in Chisinau, we set up a foster family programme until 2015 to train and support Moldovan foster families so that they could take in abandoned children from state homes. As there were virtually no foster families in Moldova at that time, it was a major task for us to provide this service...

Community care in the villages

Community care in the villagesTogether with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, we launched this pilot project in Moldova in 2010 and are currently working on its sustainable implementation in the Moldovan health and social care system. 13 outreach carers and 3 project coordinators from 13 remote villages in the Republic of Moldova have been trained to look after old, sick and often completely...