This past Monday we were invited to a special event in Chisinau. It was the expostion of community development projects accomplished by 28 young Moldovan women who participated for the past year in FETE (Moldovan word for girls) or Future Empowerment through Experience. The program was funded through a grant from the US Embassy and staffed by many Peace Corps volunteers as mentors in the many villages that the young women come from. The projects included everything from cleaning up a river, to starting a program to care for the elderly at home, and things as practical as creating a place to play in the park, or promoting reusable shopping bags. The event included information stations where FETE participants could explain how they planned and fundraised money to complete their community projects. It was an awesome event and very inspirational. If you want to find out more about this great project, here are a few links: https://sites.google.com/site/fetemoldova or https://www.facebook.com/pages/FETE-Moldova
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