I decided to keep a mark of all these faces through a collection of portraits and interviews which echos my own questionings. Family portrait.
Samira, 20 years old, Germany (Baden Baden), 11 month Weltwärst
Can you explain me what you were doing before Moldova?
I just finished High school.
Why did you decide to do a voluntary service and why in Moldova?
It's a long story. I've always wanted to go abroad and I really loved French when I was at school. So I first applied for Tunisia, but I couldn't find any project. So finally, last summer I participated to a work camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina for three weeks. I really liked it and I realized that Eastern Europe is interesting. Then I started to search and found Moldova, where they speak Romanian, which I thought was good because I learned Italian and French in school.
What was your project in Moldova?
I've been working in an orphanage, but not a real orphanage: it's called "casa de plasament", where live children from difficult situations who stay there for around one year. Twenty children are living in this house, and they do everything together, like a family. My first task was to accompany children to the school on the morning, to help with different tasks in the centre, and then pick them up at school. And because they go to five different schools, it was a lot of work, a lot of walking. In the afternoon, I helped children with their homework, or did other things with them.
What will you do when you will be back? This experience changed something about your plans for the future?
I applied for university and want to study social work. This idea came during the year: first I thought I will study something with languages because I liked it a lot at school, but now I realize that I want to work concretely, I don't want to study so much, I want to do something more practical and also work with children. I think that it gives you a lot back, and also it gives you the feeling to do something more concrete, instead of just translating some books, or anything else. After this year, I'm quite sure with my choices.
What are your dreams for your future?
I still want to travel. I want to do an Erasmus, or an EVS, maybe in Romania or Turkey. Maybe I can't live a long time in the same place, I get tired about living all the time in the same place. With Chisinau, in one hand I really like to live here, but in the other hand, there are so many other places to discover. It's such a chance that we can travel!
What will you remember from this experience?
I will remember all the people. I appreciated so many things… I liked the markets for example, the fact that you only buy fruits and vegetables from here during the right season. To have a cold long winter was an interesting experience.
I will remember all the villages in Moldova, where it's beautiful, and where people are very hospitable. What else? I don't know, there are so many things. I will remember a lot and I will miss the people, my host family, everyone.
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