Another group of pupils from Ungheni district arrived on Tuesday at the "Arcul de Triumf" National Sports Complex in Bucharest, at one of the ARC camps run by the Romanian state. It is the second batch of children from the district to leave this summer through the programme, after the group of about 100 children that set off, at the end of June, for Padiș and Oglinzi.
The children's team „Viitorul” of Ungheni says it has started in the 2026 edition of the national beach soccer championship, on the arena in Chișinău. It is not a first for Ungheni on the sand: in 2023, the district sports school of the same name took a squad of youngsters to third place in the country. The results of the opening round have not yet been made public.
Ungheni District Council opened the second session of the “Prietenia” (Friendship) camp on 6 July — a “day camp” for children, in Ungheni and Măcărești. Behind the ceremony lie concrete figures that matter to parents: 1.26 million lei from the district budget, 400 places spread across four 10-day sessions, free for children from vulnerable families and a 15% fee for everyone else. The programme has become the district's main form of organised holiday after the “Codreanca” camp was liquidated in February.
Around 100 children from Ungheni district have set off for the ARC camps in Romania — at Padiș, Cluj county, and Oglinzi, Neamț county — organised by the Department for Romanians Everywhere. For many families it is already a tradition: the children spend holiday days across the Prut free of charge, and for some it is the third summer in a row.
A donation of children's books, made by writer Elena Vizir to a library in Ungheni, looks like a small gesture. Set against the official figures, it touches a nerve: over two decades, the book stock of the district's libraries has thinned by a quarter — and yet people use them more than fifteen years ago. In a district losing its young people, a library full of children is no longer a banality, but news.
A workshop run by CCF Moldova trained 20 teachers from ten schools in the Ungheni and Călărași districts to work better with parents and with children who have special educational needs. They, in turn, will train more than 120 colleagues. Beyond the event, Ungheni is one of the country's two pilot regions for inclusive education — and the road from the orphanage to the classroom next door has changed radically in recent years.
