„Guguță in Diaspora”, project implemented with the financial support of the DEH program

A great celebration was recently organized in the village of Trei Iezi. In a warm and friendly atmosphere, the children of our compatriots from Geneva had an imaginary journey in the world of tales, teleporting in time to meet the most beloved character - Guguță - the whole generations of children grew up with him.

A literary evening, which highlighted the work of the great writer Spiridon Vangheli, a pylon of children's literature, who this year celebrates the honorable age of 90 years, transformed the headquarters of the diplomatic mission into a village of celebration, where the memories have been debugged, and Cușma lui Guguță constituted a reading space, becoming overcrowded of children's smiles and giggles. To complete the festive atmosphere, the organizers also included a puppet show performed by the actress Snejana Rudenco. Also, our colleague Diana Cucoș was present online with a congratulatory message from the Bureau of  Diaspora Relations (BRD) addressed to the participants of the festivity. 

The activity was realized in the project „Guguță in Diaspora”, initiated by the DIALOG Association from Switzerland, which obtained financial support within the thematic grants program Diaspora Engagement Hub, the sub-programme to support cultural and educational actions in the diaspora, implemented by BRD.

The team of the Diaspora Relations Bureau expresses its gratitude to the representatives of our diaspora in Switzerland, Inga Savin, Lidia Piaget, as well as to other people involved, for their wholehearted complicity in the realization of this project, the purpose of which was to encourage and promote reading in Romanian among children from the diaspora, to maintain their cultural and linguistic identity, as well as to familiarize them with the characters from the works of Vangheli: „Guguță and his friends”, „The feat of Guguță”, „The boy from the blue hut” etc.