“Change doesn’t come overnight,” says Mihai Pascovschi. “But we have to be patient and believe in the things that we are doing.” The twenty two year old is an optimist in a country full of pessimists. “Our generation wants immediate change, or they give up. But we come from a really bad situation, and there is a long way to go.”
Since the age of 16 Pascovschi has been involved in politics. He talks full of passion about it. For a long period he was vice-president of the youth organization of the Liberal Party in Moldova. Now he’s trying to get his way into the political arena.
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It’s a warm Saturday morning in May. The twenty two year old Gheorghe Lozovanu is working in the yard of his parents house. There are rows after rows of strawberries. The fields are still green, but in some spots the red fruit is popping out.
Strawberries are everything for Lozovanu. “You cannot have too many of them,” he smiles. “Everybody wants to eat our strawberries. In our village, we are famous.” He takes a small plate and finds the biggest and the best.
But the love for strawberries is not the most interesting thing about Gheorghe Lozovanu. In a country where a quarter of the workforce is abroad, it’s hard to find someone who has made a clear decision to stay in Moldova.
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