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“Know me, Respect me, Support me!”

Every person with disabilities has abilities that deserve to be promoted. It is because of pity, indifference and ignorance that their abilities remain unknown. Persons with disabilities need respect and support to assert themselves as full members of society. In … Continue reading

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Volunteering at Hansca Community Home

This summer Hansca Community Home had a volunteer from Switzerland. She managed to develop beautiful relationships with each one of the guys who live there and to find out what they like. She told us she liked  the atmosphere in … Continue reading

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Volunteering at Keystone Moldova – a great experience for us

Leaving for Moldova, we were a bit nervous, not knowing what to expect from the country and Keystone, the organization we were gonna work for. Two weeks later we can wholeheartedly say that it was an amazing experience. We were … Continue reading

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An Important Event in Hansca Community Home

A major event took place – the hallowing of Community Home in Hansca, Ialoveni. Even though it happened on the same day as the Town Day, the Community Home’s hallowing was the first event to be held by the Town … Continue reading

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Young Entrepreneurs Support Businesses Started by Persons with Disabilities

Thursday, June 13, a group of Moldovan entrepreneurs donated MDL 8,000 for small businesses to be developed by two human services: Hansca Community Home and Orhei Supported Living. The donations were made during the Summer Entrepreneurship School organized by Rural Investment … Continue reading

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Helping Hand Moldova helps families of persons with disabilities start businesses

Busy as a bee, Efimia, a lady from the village of Ciocilteni, Orhei manages to keep a cow, a goat, a pig and different fowl, all by herself. Above that, she is bringing up a boy with an intellectual disability … Continue reading

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With Helping Hand Moldova, dreams can come true

Traditionally, Helping Hand Moldova provides donations for the beneficiaries of the Community for All – Moldova Program implemented by Keystone Moldova. Persons with disabilities, their families and inhabitants of Community Homes and Supported Living Services created with Keystone Moldova support … Continue reading

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Project to support decentralization of human services in Moldova launched in Chisinau

A project entitled “Public-private partnership consolidation for a sustainable development of community-based services for persons with disabilities” was recently launched in Chisinau. The project worth EUR 273,436 is funded by the European Union and implemented by Keystone Moldova  jointly with … Continue reading

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Business ideas presented in public by persons with disabilities and their families

Thirteen  business ideas, all of them developed by persons with intellectual disabilities and their family members within the Small Business Incubator organized by Keystone Moldova with the support of Open Society Foundation / Mental Health Initiative, were presented publicly. Persons … Continue reading

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We Are The Ones Who Can Stop Discrimination!

The auditorium lapses into silence. Actors on the stage freeze in a stop-motion. The audience remains pondering, waiting for something else to happen – How come? Plays usually have a happy ending, don’t they? Someone makes a sign for them … Continue reading

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