🏢 About the local organisation
The GENDERDOC-M Information Centre was founded on 8 May 1998 and is the only nongovernmental
organisation actively advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people (LGBT) in the Republic of Moldova. During its existence, GENDERDOC-M
has implemented more than fifty projects of different scale. They aimed at the realisation of
organisation's strategic objectives in various periods of its developments. The achievement of
results was carried out by raising society's awareness about sexual orientation and gender
identity, lobbying interests and rights of LGBT in the state structures and international
organisations, strategic litigation, HIV/AIDS and STI prevention, promoting healthy lifestyle,
carrying out social and cultural events, providing psychological and legal counselling to
community members, maintaining support groups (for transgender individuals, HIV-positive gay
men, elderly gay men, and family and friends of LGBT), working with professional groups
(psychologists, sociologists, journalists, police, medical workers), etc. Currently, GENDERDOC-M
manages four programmes:
Organisational Capacity Building Programme, LGBT Rights Lobby and Advocacy Programme,
LGBT Community Development Programme, and LGBT Health Programme, as well as a
volunteers' movement.
GENDERDOC-M carries out a number of activities in the areas of information dissemination,
service provision, culture, social work, charity, and LGBT community development. In particular,
the most recent activities that have been carried out by the organisation include environmental,
social, cultural, and charity events that target LGBT people and Moldovan society more broadly.
💼 What the programme involves
The typical tasks for the volunteers that will be involved may include (but are not limited to)
providing assistance in organising and carrying out activities for the LGBT community in and
outside the office, editing/proofreading texts in English, providing assistance in maintaining and
coordinating the LGBT youth website egali.md (the official affiliate of It Gets Better Project in
Moldova), providing assistance in organising and carrying out of the two biggest events (Moldova
Pride and Coming Out Days), as well as participation in other volunteer-run activities organised
by the local LGBT volunteers.
GENDERDOC-M can offer a volunteer the opportunity to gain experience in organising and
carrying out events for LGBT people and other target groups, to work in Moldova's only LGBT
community-based and advocacy organisation and be part of a friendly, open and professional
team.
From GENDERDOC-M the volunteer can expect an induction training course on the situation of
LGBT people in Moldova, possibility for personal and professional growth, and decent working
conditions (a desk with a computer, access to necessary office supplies, etc).
📍 About the location
Project is situated in the suburb area of the capital of Moldova Chisinau. Chisinau is the main administrative, economic, scientific and cultural centre of Moldova. The city has just over 700,000 inhabitants and the whole metropolitan area is roughly one million inhabitants. In terms of number of inhabitants, Chisinau is the largest city of the country. Chisinau is divided in five administrative sectors; Botanica, Buiucani, Center, Ciocana and Riscani. It is often referred to as the greenest city in Europe due to the high proportion of well maintained green spaces.