Summer Educational and Rehabilitation Camps for
Children from Zones of Environmental Disasters

Such camps have been held annually since 1995.

Locations: health resort camps “Serebryanye klyuchi”, “Cooperator”, “Isloch” and “Neman”, rehabilitation camps “Yubileynyi” and Svitanok“, the children's rehabilitation and health center “Lesnaya Polyana” (1995-2016).

32 sessions were held for that period. 6763 children from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine got:

  • Individual and detailed medical examination before and after a session;
  • A 24-day medical and rehabilitation course;
  • Educational programmes on ecology, culture, history; 
  • Ecological and cultural expeditions and excursions;
  • Sports and game events.

In 2005, the programme of the Green Cross Belarus NGO got the National ecological award “ECOWORLD-2005” in the nomination “Ecology and Health” which was established by the State Duma of Russia and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident on April 23, 2026, a memorable meeting was held at the Swiss Embassy in Minsk with people who were connected to Switzerland as a result of this tragedy.

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