Children from Donbass want to get to know Belarus better after holidays in Vitebsk

We would like to get to know Belarus better, the children from Donbass, who holidayed in Vitebsk Oblast, told journalists at the railway station in Gomel during a train layover on 24 August, BelTA has learned.

The children underwent health improvement and rehabilitation in the children's health camp Raduga in Liozno District, Vitebsk Oblast under the program of the Aleksei Talai Charitable Foundation. More than 40 boys and girls holidayed in Belarus for almost three weeks, improved their health, recharged and learned more about Belarus. After all, in addition to the health improvement course, they enjoyed a packed cultural and entertainment program.

At the Gomel railway station, children and their chaperones shared their impressions of the holidays. The group's chaperone Irina Titova was grateful for the warm welcome on Belarusian soil. "We are all in Belarus for the first time. We had a great time. We are very grateful for the excursions. Everything was organized very well. We got a lot of impressions, enough for a year ahead. We went to the ice arena, the Veterinary Academy, the swimming pool, even visited the Slavianski Bazaar festival, the Lode island and a zoo. We, children and adults, were very impressed by nature," she stressed.

Ekaterina from Donetsk was grateful for this summer and her trip to Belarus, for new friends and a whirlpool of emotions. "Everything was very fun and interesting. We had a great number of excursions! If there is an opportunity, we would like to come to Belarus again. We would like to see new places," she said.

According to Yulia Malova, a representative of the Aleksei Talai Charitable Foundation in Gomel and Gomel Oblast, public organizations and enterprises of Gomel Oblast prepared gifts for children from Donbass. Every kid was given a backpack with school supplies. The region is also actively collecting humanitarian aid for the cities of Kursk and Belgorod, the frontline regions of Russia and Donbass.