A number of 104 children from ten countries were selected to take part in the DOR 2014 program that is designed to build emotional ties between the Moldovan diaspora and the country. In December – March 2014, 118 children applied to take part in the DOR 2014 summer camp. The assessment commission chose 63 girls and 41 boys, IPN reports.

According to a communiqué from the Bureau for Diaspora Relations, 45 of the participants will receive social scholarships from the Bureau, which organizes the summer camp. The children are from socially deprived families or cannot pay the participation tax. Thirty-seven of the scholars are from Russia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Canada, and Greece, while eight of them are from Moldova.

“I’m glad that four times more children will take part in the program this year. This means that the children have a special interest in their country of origin. We will make effort to make their stay interesting and memorable,” said the Bureau for Diaspora Relations’ head Victor Lutenco.

The organizers hope that after the children take part in the DOR summer camp, they will want to come to Moldova more often and will promote Moldova as the children who took part in the first summer camp of the kind.