Care & Community Volunteer Stories, Moldova

Care in Moldova - Kate Watkins My daily life as a Care volunteer is a busy life and each day is sure to surprise me with a new experience - no two days are the same! My working week begins on Tuesdays. Every Tuesday and Thursday I volunteer in Bobocel Kindergarten (which is my host’s Grandma’s kindergarten) where I help teach English to children between 5 and 7 years old. I wake up at around 7am and have breakfast which varies every morning, but often I have bread, meat and cheese. I aim to leave the flat at 8:15am and it takes at least 30minutes to get to the kindergarten by maxi taxi, depending on the traffic.

Care & Community in Moldova - Steven Wrench Moldova is one of those countries that not many people know much about and most people may not have even heard of it. But all of that just adds to the mystery and appeal of it. Most people will spend their gap year travelling the world and going to places that everyone goes to, such as Thailand, Australia, Russia, etc. but not many people can actually say they’ve been to Moldova. Personally, I wouldn’t have changed my project for anything. It has been the most rewarding and worthwhile thing I have ever done and would recommend it to anyone that asks about it.

Care & Community in Moldova - Christien de Kruif A warm privjet (welcome) from Chisinau (or Kishinev in Russian), the capital of small and friendly Moldova that's almost on the outskirts of Europe and tries hard to find a balance between its giant former partners (Russia and the Ukraine) and its inevitable future partner, the European Union. Moldova becomes an official border state when Romania joins the European Union next year.