...ed States when she was 14, joining her father and a brother, who had arrived six years earlier. Her mother, who is divorced from her father, only recently immigrated, and another brother remains in Mo...

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Originally from small town Ungheni in western Moldova, Silvia found herself a single mother at 19, with no hope to find work. A neighbour put her in touch with two men from capital Chis...

...vegetables and goat meat; cabbage leaves stuffed with rice and carrots; and mamaligia, much like my mother's Dixie corn bread, only denser. We drank the homemade wine that many Moldovans make.
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...tly over them.

But as we celebrate this Father's Day, there is reason to call this a mother's day in Moldova.

This is because a special group of men and women, whether mo...

... Federation representative for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. ‘As many people of working age - mothers and fathers - have left the country, the onus is on grandparents to care for children, or fo...

...hour north of the capitol, Orhei. I currently live in a soviet-style apartment building with a host mother and sister who routinely make me smile, laugh and uplift my life in general. I teach English ...