Vlad Placinta, president of the "Save a Heart" Association, was awarded the "Moldovan Cross", the highest distinction awarded to the laity by His Eminence Teofan, Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina. The recognition comes for his support and involvement, together with Father Stefan, in the construction of the social-educational Settlement "Saint Ephraim the New" in the village of Oneaga, Cristesti commune, Botoșani county