Two family-type children's homes will appear in the Lepel district in 2010

April 5, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Two family-type homes for orphans will be built this year in the Lepel district, the first deputy head of the education department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Leonid Stepanov, told a BELTA correspondent. The construction of facilities designed to accommodate up to 10 children is carried out in accordance with the presidential program "Children of Belarus", subprogram "Orphans". Over Br750 million from the regional and republican budgets will be allocated for their construction. In total, since 2006, 12 homes for families raising orphans have been built in the Vitebsk region, in the Verkhnedvinsk, Miory, Glubokoe, Orsha districts and in Orsha. 72 children have found their families in them. In the future, the construction of family-type orphanages under the presidential program "Children of Belarus", designed for the next five-year period, will continue. One such facility is planned to be built in the Shumilino, Chashniki, Braslav, Ushachi, Tolochin, Beshenkovichi, Sharkovshchina, Rossony, Postavy and Gorodok districts, where there are currently none, the interlocutor noted. There are 4.6 thousand orphans living in the Vitebsk region, more than half of whom are raised in foster families. -0-