The "Child of Peace" certificate will be awarded to all babies born today in the Vitebsk region

September 21, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. All babies born today in the Vitebsk region will receive the "Child of Peace" certificate, the acting chairperson of the Vitebsk regional branch of the Belarusian Peace Foundation told a BELTA correspondent. Within a month, parents of every baby born on September 21 will be solemnly presented with certificates conferring the honorary title "Child of Peace" and good wishes, as well as souvenirs in honor of the International Day of Peace. The event is being organized in the region for the first time, but this kind tradition will become permanent, the interlocutor noted. Not only newborns will be honored on Peace Day in the Vitebsk region. Also for the first time in the region, the "Parental Valor" campaign has been launched, during which employees of the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian Peace Foundation, together with activists of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM), representatives of the regional military commissariat and the education department, will identify parents with the richest experience in patriotic and moral upbringing of children throughout the year. The winners will be awarded on September 21, 2010. A series of events dedicated to the International Day of Peace will also be held by BRSM committees. As reported in the regional committee of the organization, in Dokshitsy, all students born on September 21 will be congratulated. In Polotsk, a children's playground will be opened. This will be the second courtyard landscaped for children by the city's youth. In the Verkhnedvinsk central district hospital, young mothers are planned to be honored. -0-