The best volunteers and voluntary groups of the Kind Hearts Movement were awarded in Minsk

On January 22, 2025, the National Children’s Technopark held a ceremony to honor the winners of the national contest “Volunteer of the Year – Kind Heart” according to the results of 2024.

The main task of the contest is to popularize and develop the volunteer movement in Belarus, to raise the status of a volunteer, to identify and encourage leaders of the movement who carry out public and socially significant activities.

The contest “Volunteer of the Year – Kind Heart” ran from October 1 through December 5, 2024.  In total, 76 works took part in the final of the contest. Winners were named in five categories: “Personal Contribution”, “Best Volunteer Unit”, “Best Development”, “Peer to Peer”, and “Good on Camera”. The main criteria for winning were uniqueness of experience, demand and contribution to the development of youth volunteer movement, as well as professional features of each nomination.

During the ceremony the winners of the republican contest “Youth for Clean Cities and Villages” were also awarded. The contest is held annually among youth volunteer groups with the aim to educate young people to take care of nature and to involve them in activities to improve the territories of settlements.

In total, more than 500 applications from volunteer groups of Belarus were submitted to the contest “Youth for Clean Cities and Villages”. The winners of the contest were:

• in the nomination “The best volunteer group (camp) among students” – volunteer group “Varty” (PO PA “BRSM” State Educational Institution “Moshkanskaya secondary school named after A.K. Gorovets of Senno district”);
• in the nomination “Best volunteer group (camp) among student youth” – volunteer group “Empire of Goodness” (PO PA “BRSM” with the rights of the RK EE “Gomel State University named after F. Skaryna”). F. Skaryna”);
• in the nomination “Best volunteer group (camp) among working youth” – volunteer group “Energy of Life” (PO PA “BRSM” of Orshanskaya CHPP branch of Vitebskenergo RUE);
• in the nomination “Best landscape composition” – volunteer group “Kind Heart” (PO PA “BRSM” State Educational Institution “Borisov Ecology and Tourism Center”);
• in the nomination “Innovative forms and methods of work in the organization of environmental activities” – the project “Environmental Patrol” (PO PO “BRSM” State Educational Institution “Secondary School №78 of Minsk”).

Creation of conditions for popularization and development of volunteer activities contributes to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the Republic of Belarus.