Belarusian Children to Come for Recovery Stay
To forget, at least for a while, the sad life they lead in their homeland, where they have to live in very difficult and for us unimaginable life conditions – this is the goal of the nine-day-long recovery stay which was prepared for the Belarusian children. These children are going to arrive from Prague on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at the main train station in České Budějovice at 9:56 a.m.
This recovery stay is organised by the Diocesan Charity in České Budějovice and 14 children, accompanied with two adult female workers from their local Belarusian charity, are going to participate in this program. “Ten of these fourteen children are going to participate in the programme which was prepared for them and the other four, which had visited České Budějovice before, are going to spend their time with their adoptive families,” added Taťána Šeráková, co-ordinator of the Cross-Border Adoption project.
There is a huge variety of activities prepared for the children. On the second day of their stay, they are going to sail from České Budějovice to the town of Hluboká nad Vltavou, where they are going to visit the ZOO and the castle.
In the following days, they are going to visit the most beautiful places in the South Bohemian Region – they are going to Kleť mountain, to the towns of Český Krumlov, Třeboň, Písek, Prachatice and to the castles Orlík and Zvíkov. There is a sporting event in one of the afternoons organised by Ká-Servis and also traditional Czech small sausage barbecue at St. Francis House in Veselí nad Lužnicí.
This recovery stay is one of the forms of help the children from the poorest Belarusian families. “There is a girl in this project, she has another sibling, and their mother is a single mother, who earns only 4000 CZK per month, but the Belarusian prices are very similar to the Czech ones,” points out Šeráková.
The social situation in Belarus is very difficult, as the country has been dealing with grave economic problems since the previous year. According to experts, these problems were caused by the authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko who regardless the tragic conditions of the state budged decided just before the elections in December 2010 to raise significantly the salaries of the public sector workers. As the result of this, there is a high inflation which devaluates remunerations and savings of the Belarusians. This is clearly reflected for example in the foodstuff prices which were increased by 225% during 2011.
Contact:
Taťjana Šeráková, co-ordinator of the Cross-Border Adoption
