In my opinion, actual period it’s a decisional step for the future of Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) in Moldova. Nowadays, “Voinicel” Center is a Centre of Reference in Early intervention, with hundreds of beneficiaries children with developmental disorders and their parents, with practical research done in this field (I mean our dissertation “Elaboration of the Model of Early intervention service for children with disabilities in Moldova” –www.cnaa.md/en/thesis/8655/), with good experience in the field, with a nice and very professional team. Additionally, during last 5-6 years, we have done a lot of efforts for convincing Moldavian Ministry of Health, Ministry of Trade, Family and Social Protection, UNICEF, Mental Health Initiative Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation and other institutions in the need of ECI; there is also an impact on other institutions, like Medical University and Medical Colleges from Moldova, where we facilitated the implementation of a new Curriculum, containing topics on “Child with disabilities” and “Early Childhood Intervention” – in general, we are participating very active in creation of the positive attitudes in our society for implementation of early intervention services network in all the country.

More and more people understand now the need of changes in the approach on disabled people, more and more institutions are accepting the idea of collective efforts need in building the Network of ECI, supported by the State.

Now, I have a strong feeling that we need just 1 or 2 year more, a period of big collective efforts, for achieving something very important on the level of entire country in this domain, for enjoying first extensive results in Early Intervention in many regions of Moldova.

In this context, Voinicel team are very thankfull to all Norwegian people and Norwegian institutions for all kind of support in achieving this goal.