The names of 10 Women of the Year have been announced in Belarus

March 2, Minsk /Elena Prus - BELTA/. The names of 10 women of the year have been announced in Belarus. The solemn ceremony honoring the laureates and winners of the competition took place today in Minsk at the National Academic Grand Opera and Ballet Theatre, BELTA correspondent reports. The jury, headed by the chairperson of the Public Association "Belarusian Women's Union", member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, chairperson of the board of OJSC "ASB "Belarusbank" Nadezhda Yermakova, determined the winners in 10 nominations from 52 finalists of the competition. It is being held in Belarus for the second year in a row. The winner in the nomination "For Leadership and Successful Management" was the General Director of OJSC "Baranovichi Poultry Processing Plant", member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, Natalya Mankо. The enterprise headed by her constantly updates its technological base, improves its investment policy, and the most important production indicators are steadily growing. The leader in the nomination "For Active Public Activity" was the chairperson of the Public Association "Republican Organization of Large Families" Tatyana Kravchenko. She has headed this organization for almost two decades, is the initiator of many ideas to support large families, and the organizer of a creativity festival for such large families. Raisa Shamak, a foster parent of the Osipovichi District Department of Education, became the winner of the competition in the nomination "For Achievement in Child Rearing". Her motto is to create peace within yourself and bring it to people. She became a professional parent 5 years ago and is now raising 9 children in a family-type home. Anna Gorchakova, director of the public charitable organization "Belarusian Children's Hospice", won in the nomination "For Charity and Mercy". According to her, often to live requires more courage than to die. The Belarusian Children's Hospice became the first palliative care center for terminally ill children in our country and in the entire post-Soviet space. Valentina Kritskaya, a mother of many children from the village of Anoshki, Lepel district, Vitebsk region, became the winner in the nomination "For Contribution to the Spiritual and Moral Revival of Society". She gave birth to and raised 9 children. She taught them to improve the land from the corner where a person was born and lives. Valentina Kritskaya preserved the ancient ritual "Zhanicha Tereshka". In the nomination "For High Professionalism", the head of the Dyatlovo Road Repair and Construction Department No. 119, Olga Boshko, was recognized as the best. In the nomination "For Loyalty and Devotion to the Profession" - the head of correctional colony No. 4 of the Department of Execution of Penalties of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Gomel region, Svetlana Pokhodova. Elena Makhnach, director of the republican unitary agricultural enterprise "Experimental Farm "Natalievsk" of the Cherven district, became the winner in the nomination "For Contribution to the Revival of the Village". Elena Vasilevich, a person with a Group 1 disability, was recognized as the winner in the nomination "For Women's Courage". And in the nomination "For Strength of Spirit and Resilience of Character", the winner was Olga Aksentyevna Androsik, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, holder of the Orders of the Red Banner and the Red Star. The most honored winner of the competition is 94 years old, she is convinced that love and labor will overcome everything. Olga Aksentyevna lives in the village of Sokolovo, Zhabinkovsky district, Brest region. Her life is an example for her contemporaries, an embodiment of the courage shown during the war. -0-