GET CONNECTEDAccess Bender

Who are we?

a group of 20 students who study in Access Microscholarship Program, Bender, Moldova. Students from different schools, most of us being from Theoretical Lyceum "Alexandru cel Bun", that is a Romanian school. We study in different grades: from 8th to 11th. We have different hobbies, interests, but something common for us is English and the willingness to study it.

Where are we? We live in Bender, Moldova. It is

located in Transnistria, an unrecognized republic on the territory of Moldova. It is not only a local, national, but even an international problem. People here have issues finding common language. Most of the people living here are Russian speakers.

Our Access group is diverse, because we have students from both sides: some who speak only Russian, some who speak only Romanian, and thankfully we have students who speak both languages. So, we actually work in three languages: English, Romanian, and Russian.

What is the problem?

What happened is that people are closed to what they are used to do, and nobody is trying to change anything. Everybody is going to their school, and they forget about the possibility to connect with others.

What is our solution? We live in multinational republic, so we must

interact more. Friendly relations must be established between students from different schools.

First step for us solving this issue on a local vision starts right here, at our Access class. Here we found something common and we became friends.

So, to make people forget their misunderstandings, they should find their common interests. Because we are students from different schools, we started this process from discussions with our friends who are not involved here. Telling them about possibilities to make new friends , they liked our ideas.

Now we have a plan… We want to organize more events where all of us will come and

participate.

Ideas of events:

*football, basketball, volleyball games- for sports lovers *What? Where? When?; Mafia games- for intellectual games lovers *concerts and thematic party (Halloween, Sf. Valentine, 80's style)-

for everyone who loves to have fun etc. A great opportunity for connecting them and at the same time

teaching everybody about social responsibility is the Youth Bank Varnita. A person can come there and apply for being member, or volunteer, or apply with a project to be financed whenever he wants. They also organize events as we mentioned above, where we can participate.

The main idea is to make them get connected after this events through social network and meet again after all.

What is the result we are looking for?

We are looking for creating new relationships with people that are around us. We are looking to get connected along with them and teach each other to think out of the box, and to actually get out of the box we are used to, because with few simple steps we can achieve more.

Now we want to see how you spend your time together to get

connected…