Events

MINSK, 27 December (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will attend the New Year charity event “Our Children” which will take place in the Palace of the Republic on 27 December, BelTA learned from the presidential press service.

The New Year reception will gather 2,370 children aged 8-14 from various parts of Belarus. They are orphans and children left without parental care, foster children, children with disabilities, kids from low-income families and families with many children, kids whose parents serve in the Armed Forces or law enforcement bodies, children whose fathers died or became disabled in the line of duty, children from the Chernobyl-hit regions, winners of international, national and regional academic excellence competitions, creative contests, festivals and sports competitions, students of the Francysk Skaryna Belarusian secondary school in Vilnius.