The governmental program “Craciun cu DOR de casa” (“Longing for home on Christmas “), which was staged in Moscow on January 13, brought together over 100 Moldovans who live in the capital and other regions of Russia. The program included a concert by singers Geta Burlacu and Aurel Chirtoaca, who were accompanied by instrumentalists Oleg Vitliuc and Mihai Sorocan, IPN reports.
According to the Bureau for Diaspora Relations, the festivity involved a Moldovan delegation that consisted of representatives of the Bureau of the State Chancellery, namely deputy head Gennady Slobodeniuc, senior consultant Valeriu Sajin and the representable of the International Organization for Migration Office in Moldova Adriana Barilov.
In their speeches, the representatives of the delegation underlined the importance of taking part in such events, which offer an additional chance of bringing the diaspora together and of discussing useful subjects with Moldovans who are abroad.
The representatives of the Bureau for Diaspora Relations had a meeting with the team of Moldova’s Embassy in Moscow and meth with Moldovans from the diaspora at a church and with leaders of associations/members of the diaspora at the Center for Migrant Rights Projection to see what their expectations of the Government are and identify the problems they face and find solutions to them in concert.
Among the discussed subjects was the organization of presentations or workshops on the “PARE 1+1” Program and of online training courses on project designing, provision of teaching aids in Romanian, printing of brochures with information about the employment rules for Moldovans who intend to leave for Russia, etc. The members of the diaspora thanked for the support provided by the Bureau for Diaspora Relations in staging the activity.
