Dear Partners and Friends,
May your Easter be blessed with health, longevity, love and a lot of happiness!

On March 27, 2012, at the "Moldovan Christian Aid" office was held the annual meeting. At the meeting were present MCA international partners – Aarno Lahtinen from Finn Church Aid, Per Soderberg from Church of Sweden, Gre Kornelius and Mieke Labots from Kierke in Actie, MCA chairperson and staff, board members, Alla Kulicovscaia - audit expert.
List of the approved projects within Spring 2012 call for proposals in the project "Mobilizing Church Networks to Prevent Domestic Violence in Moldova":
Christian churches and related organizations from Moldova are invited to submit applications for the small grants under “Prevention of Domestic Violence” Program.
All applications should include activities under following topics:
The study visit was organized within the MCA Domestic Violence program from 14th to 22nd of November and aimed at visiting Italian non-governmental organizations working in the field of prevention and combating domestic violence, learning new working approaches and share best practices from Italy and Moldova.
During the program, two representatives of MCA, Lilia Bulat and Veaceslav Luca, had the opportunity to visit relevant institutions and to familiarize themselves with activities, projects and programs of various NGOs in Rome and Milan. At the same time, MCA delegation have participated at the World Conference “Science for Piece” in Milan in which have been also addressed the issue of violence against women.

Interdiac and Eurodiaconia together with interdiac founder Slezská Diakonie and the local organizer Community centre DEN warmly organized, in the period of 10th – 15th October, in Český Těšín (Czech Republic), the second study visit and workshop: From local action to engagement with the wider society “Input to wider society from local engagement by young people in the neighbourhoods”.

On October 21-25, 5 representatives from 3 protestant church communities in Holland visited Moldova and Moldovan Christian Aid (MCA).
According to the members of the delegation, their trip to Moldova aimed to get to know better the local environment and problems we face; learn about the MCA activities in communities and to meet beneficiaries from projects that are running at the moment. The delegates, also expressed a special interest in participating at the Liturgy and other activities organized by the Orthodox Church of Moldova.
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