While my primary project as a Peace Corps Volunteer is being a school-based Health Education Specialist, some of the brightest parts of service come from being involved in ”secondary projects” - things that have little or nothing to do with my official purpose but are useful to me and my host community all the same. A great one I've been involved in this year is a Stevens Initiative grant-funded project called "My Village through the Lens". This program was initiated by local leader Alexandr Godoroja and is coordinated through our local youth center Centrul Resurse pentru Tineri "UniT", with additional support & donations from a local NGO Tineri și Talentați din Criuleni (young and talented from Criuleni). The main purpose of the project is: Promoting cultural values from each village through the medium of short films made by youth, who will discover and promote the most beautiful places in their village and will increase their sense of pride about their community. A key value/practice of the Stevens Initiative is youth in other countries using technology to share about their lives with American youth. Guess what! For this project, you're some of those American youth! I'll be posting several videos over the next few weeks from the pilot run of this project. I hope that you enjoy the videos and that you interact with our group by commenting on these posts! Our first video is about the village of Cimișeni! (pronounced chee-mee-shen) After watching the video, do you have any questions for us? What did you see that stood out? Was anything familiar to you, looking similar to things from your life? Let us know your questions through comments below!
You can also share with us things that make where you are from beautiful and/or photos or videos about where you live.
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Sara Damon
12/5/2016 04:48:36 am
Comments: There seem to be so many more statues and murals here than we typically see in the U.S. The village featured in this video seemed very unique to us!
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Rebecca Lehman
12/6/2016 09:05:07 am
I am glad that this village appears unique to you all! I still delight in villages that look like this - and I have seen many that look like it in my travels so far throughout Moldova.
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Rebecca LehmanHealth Education volunteer serving at Boris Dînga Middle & High School in Criuleni, Moldova. Archives
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