The organizers of ‘May I help? –MOL – talent seeking program’are facing too many applications. There have arrived 30 % more applications to this year‘s competition than that of last year. In the program created for the talented children and young people 223 applications were handed in for the sports category and 75 in the art category. The jury will have more work to do but we can reassure every applicant that the judging will be as professional as in the last years’, declared Árpád Gazda, Chairman of the Community Foundation.
’Within the ’May I help?’ program, the art category is in the running in stage, that’s why I am glad that it has arisen the interest of talented young people. Even if this is the 4th year, that we are part of the program as initiators and supporters, we are looking forward to the decision of the jury as well and we hope that through our financial support the best chosen ones will manage to obtain remarkable results’ – emphasized Zsolt Szalay, coutry chairman of MOL Romania.
The staff consisting of Violeta Beclea – Székely, European champion athlete, Simona Amânar – Tabără, Olympic champion gymnast, Mihai Covaliu, Olympic champion fencer, Doina Sava, swimming coach and Florentin Marinescu, martial art association chairman are ranking the applications of the sportsmen. The order of the art applications is drawn by the jury consisting of Erich Turk, organ player, Daniel Goiti, pianist, Timotei Nadasan, graphic artist and Zsuzsa Selyem, essay writer. In the sports category, the most of the applications came from the field of fighting sports, in arts from that of music. Many applicants attached photos, CDs, DVDs, besides the documents in order to convince the jury. It can be seen that they dealt much time with the putting together of the files, which shows that they feel it very important to obtain the support of MOL Romania with the help of the program‘ – declared Árpád Gazda.
With the program, MOL Romania and the Community Foundation gives a support worth 40,000Eu for the talented young sportsmen, and 20,000Eu for the ones remarkable in arts. The support could be applied by young people aged between 8 – 18, who have already had results in national or international competitions. The list of teh winners will be published by the organizers until July 31, on the www.pentrucomunitate.ro and on the www.molromania.ro websites.