Belarus

This year quite some schools in Belarus joined the ZOOM Campaign – great to have them on board!

The start for the activity weeks in Belarus was given during European Mobility Week.

In Polotsk and Novopolotsk 19 schools were zooming in from 16. September -19. October.  Minsk joined in for the first time with Gymnasium No19 and the Belarusian Music Academy College as participants from 22. September- 19. October.

In total there were 1097 pupils involved and together they collected 29717 зеленых следа or Green footprints.

Many wonderful pictures as well as reports from the activites can be found on a website they extra made for us in English: polotskmob.tilda.ws/kids-on-the-move 

Of course there is a Russian one as well: polotskmob.tilda.ws/page373736.html 

This year the official opening took place at School No6 and Gymnasium No1, where Sergei Leichenko, Deputy Chairman of Polotsk District Executive Committee, and Andrei Borovik, representative of the Citizen Working Group on development of city mobility, were present. They both stressed the importance of the children´s voices and suggestions to be heard.  

In Minsk students' ecological endeavours were encouraged by the director and manager of Interakcia Foundation, Ivan Shchadranok and Anton Radniankou. Interakcia has been the initiator and coordinator of the campaign in Belarus for two years.