Moldova celebrates International Children's Day

Chisinau, June 1 / MOLDPRES /- International Children's Day is marked today in the Republic of Moldova.

"A happy childhood is a life lived safely with your family. Without poverty, violence and fear. It means mom and dad who know how to listen to you when you are in trouble and know how to encourage you when the obstacle seems insurmountable. A happy childhood is when you have time for both school and play, and your right to education is guaranteed. In this way - with kindness, warmth and equal opportunities for development - honest, good-natured, happy people grow up, learn and train. And these people will have happy children ", a congratulatory message by President Maia Sandu reads.

Minister of Education and Research Anatolie Topală also came with a congratulatory message saying: "Our children deserve the best, that's why we, adults, parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters, educators and teachers, psychologists , doctors and police officers, state dignitaries, we must unite our efforts to offer them all our love and help, but especially quality education, medical care, safety ".

The Chisinau government has developed the National Child Protection Program 2022-2026, which will be launched today, June 1.

The program provides measures to reduce poverty, zero tolerance for violence, integrate children into institutionalized families, and mitigate the effects of parental migration on children.

International Children's Day is marked in the Republic of Moldova annually on June 1. The event is celebrated in accordance with the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1959.

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