Over 100 Moldovan kindergartens, community centres restored within Global Partnership for Education project

Four rehabilitation centres for children with special education requirements were created and endowed with special equipment within the same project. At the same time, over 550 kindergartens were equipped with furniture, teaching materials were brought to about 1,500 pre-school institutions, play grounds and sport fields were built in about 90 kindergartens and 8,000 educators benefited from training. 

Deputy Education Minister Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei has said that, under the project, the villages having no kindergartens and the ones with a larger number of children with no access to early education had been selected as beneficiaries. The deputy minister also said there were presently about 70 settlements where a kindergarten was to be established. 

A senior project manager at the Bucharest-based World Bank Office, leader of the team of the Global Partnership for Education project Mariana Doina Moarcaş said the project had been implemented in three stages, with 4.4 million dollars invested in each of the phases. Thus, the total cost of the project is 13.2 million dollars. 

The project is implemented by the Education Ministry and managed by the World Bank Office in Moldova. The activities within the project are coordinated with the Representative Office of United Nations Children’s Fund in Moldova and are carried out in partnership with the local public administration.