“Before we came to Moldova, we spent a month under shelling. The city risked being isolated. We rushed to save the children. Some people we knew from Odessa rented a car, took us to the border. Then, in March, it thought that everything would end quickly. Leaving with an infant, not knowing where you will be accommodated and what to expect on this journey, is very difficult. Varvara was three months old when I came here,” Anastasia recalls.

Anastasia thinks that the digital education program is very important. “I used to work in Excel and Word, it was familiar to me, but I improved my skills. I learned that I could work much more efficiently. In my thoughts, I go home every day. My husband wanted a daughter very much, and it's painful to know that he doesn't see the child grow up. We are the hostages of this situation, but no one asks us if we like it or not,” says Anastasia.

After graduation, women are helped to develop their resume and find a job. “We have a database of business companies. Based on the skills and knowledge the women have, we refer them to the employers from out database and many of them find a job. So far, we've managed to employ five women who came from Ukraine,” says Svetlana Georgieva.

The qualitative research report on “Digital skills of women in Găgăuzia and their impact on the competitiveness of the labor market in the region”, produced with UNDP support, notes that digital literacy is one of the factors favoring the employment of women in the labor market.

Domestic violence and women's digital skills are interconnected, as digital skills contribute to women's competitiveness in the labour market. If a woman works, it improves her financial status, the study finds. Thus, she no longer depends entirely on her partner and can separate from him if he becomes abusive and violent.