Chisinau hosts social campaign on women migration from Moldova

Chisinau, 16 December /MOLDPRES/ – There has started a social campaign in Chisinau, on women migration from Moldova, following the scope to change social views and stereotypes of the woman immigrant image.

Campaign "Migratia merita vazuta cu alti ochi" (Migration is worth viewing differently) comes to launch and distribute more video clips, where women have to tell about immigrant life. There will also take place some public discussions and presentation of migrant women stories and their contributions to society.

United Nations (UN) Women Country Representative in Moldova, Ulziisuren Jamsran, said at the event that the initiative came to provide a new vision about work and hardships experienced by migrant women abroad, as to be able to achieve their goals.

"In Moldova there are various stereotypes about migration among women, but nobody analyzes their contributions to the economy or what they are forced to go through abroad. According to statistics, Moldovan migrant women send home annually 700 million lei, representing 10 per cent of Moldova's revenues. About 50 per cent of the money is intended to educate children, which shows that women want better living standards for their families," said Jamsran.

At her part, head of the Office for Relations with Diaspora, Olga Coptu said that currently 2/3 of Moldovan Diaspora consist women, thus "society must change its perceptions about immigrants. This should be done not through remittances only, but also by the fact that many of them are examples to be promoted so as to be motivated to return home ", Coptu said.

Social campaign "Migration is worth viewing differently" is organized within UN Women Programme "Promovarea si protejarea drepturilor femeilor lucratoare emigrante" (Promotion and protection of migrant working women) funded by European Union. The action was launched in the context of the International Day of migrants and will run until 16 February 2017.

(Reporter P. Beregoi, editor L. Alcaza)