UNICEF: OneMinutesJr film highlights need for institutionalised child care reform

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/moldova_52017.html

CHISINAU, Moldova , 7 December 2009 Tudor Culeanu, 15, looked on with pride while his short film, The Moscow Train, was presented to delegates attending a high-level Conference on Child Care System Reform in the Moldovan capital.

Home for Tudor is a large institution housing more than 300 children in Straseni
near Chisinau.

In September, he took part in a OneminutesJr filmmaking workshop here. Initiated several years ago by the European Cultural Foundation, the One Minutes Foundation and UNICEF. The OneminutesJr project has held workshops around the globe to develop new tools for youth empowerment and social change.

Tudors one-minute video, as well as others produced by youths at the Moldova workshop, were posted online. Tudors video was also shown on Moldovan television.

This film was a great possibility for me to tell the world that I have a dream for my mother to come back home, and I would like other children to have this possibility to make a film about their lives," said Tudor.

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