“Corruption: the virus of the democratic society is the problem of each of us”.
“Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. This thought of the Lord Acton, the English historian of the XIX century run all through all events of the Summer School “Corruption is the virus of the democratic society” and promoted that each participant understood that this was the problem of each of us, helped to reach the high level of knowledge and skills in the opposition to the corruption spread in the society.
The activity has taken place in the period from August 17 till August 22, 2009 at the recreation center “La popas”. The aim of the summer school was the training of 20 young leaders of NGOs, initiative groups, young journalists and the students from Transnistrain region to the democratic society grounds and the promotion of the anti-corrupting actions, to the consequences of the corruption and methods of its prevention through the population informing bout it phenomenon.
The Summer School program was oriented on the training of the group of participants in the struggle against corruption, the methods of reduction of the corruption level in different fields (education, heath law-enforcement authorities) and the promotion of the democratic values among young people by means of the preparation of the active group of leaders, who form the public opinion.
During the activity the Summer School participants had the possibility to show themselves and to be the audience, to ask the questions, which worry them, in the frames of the improvised talk-show on the theme “Anti-corrupting policy in the Republic of Moldova – progress and failures”. These events were carried out with the participation of the coordinator of the Campaign for the struggle against the corruption “Corruption influences your freedom” from the Group “Youth’s Voice” at the World Bank and the President of the Association “Promo-Lex”, stating this position from the point of view of human rights and the influence of this phenomenon on it.
Also the work in the groups was realized with the purpose to elaborate own plans on the monitoring and the creation of the public servant’s Ethic Code that favored to deeper understanding of the theoretical definitions of the monitoring and the ethics in the state institutions.
The facultative actions were carried out for the broader perception of the corruption in the society as the problem, such as the team game “What? Where? When?” on the theme of corruption; the movie about the corrupted society was shown. During the Summer School the participants developed not only the team spirit but also the communication skills, the public speech and the critical thinking. In the majority’s opinion this event revealed in them the responsibility and the desire in future to develop the ideas for the public opinion forming in the struggle against the corruption.
The Summer School was carried out in the frames of the project “Corruption influence all us” at the financial support of the Fund Eurasia at the expense of means of SIDA and USAID.
Olga Gordila
Project Director
Association Promo-LEX