The children's club with the sweet name "Karamelka" has opened its doors

The family of Alyaksandr Lyanchyk and Iryna Arlova (the woman decided to keep her maiden name after marriage) is very remarkable. Primarily, because they took a step that not everyone dares to take – they adopted two children.

Now the family has three children. First, adopted Anya and Vasya arrived, and a little later, Zakhar was born.

Anya and Vasya are biological siblings whose biological mother was deprived of parental rights. We will not describe the harsh conditions in which the children were when they were taken by the guardianship authorities. We will only say that the two-year-old girl could barely utter a single word and had no communication or relationship skills. The first year of living and raising them together became a real test for the family. Much attention and care had to be given to the adopted children, and then Zakhar was born. It was only through the joint efforts of Iryna and Alyaksandr that they managed to preserve, and in fact, rebuild their family. But now the children are inseparable, although each has their own personality. Anya is lively and restless, unable to sit still. Vasya is the opposite: calm and thoughtful. Zakhar successfully combines the traits of his older sister and brother. How did they manage to form a happy family from children with such different temperaments? Firstly, undoubtedly, it is the love and hard work of the parents, their strong desire. Secondly, Iryna's profession helped. By education, she is a psychologist, so she approaches various situations and problems not only from the perspective of life wisdom but also draws on scientific achievements.

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The idea of a children's club is seen not as a business project; significant money cannot be earned from it, and there is no substantial solvent demand for such services in Lepel. It is more of a social project within which Iryna realises her idea of self-fulfilment and self-employment, and at the same time, tries to give dozens of other mothers and children the opportunity not to sit at home for months, occasionally going out for a walk in the street or park, but also to achieve self-fulfilment in small groups and large collectives.

And in this new endeavour, a kind of socially oriented business, Iryna does not forget about charity. True, she has less and less time for it. However, recently she found a convenient way.

The children's club required a settlement account to be opened and a plastic electronic card to be issued for transactions. We traditionally use the services of the Lepel settlement and cash center of Belagroprombank for a long time, so we turned to them again. They recommended the "Dotknennya" card. Its peculiarity is that 0.3 percent of the amount is deducted with each payment, and the money goes to charitable purposes. The bank also directs another 0.3 percent to the same cause. 0.6 percent is not a very large sum, but drops form streams that merge into mighty rivers. Perhaps, for someone's salvation, just a few kopecks are missing...

The social project of the children's club "Karamelka" has successfully launched, classes are being held, the opening ceremony has been organized and conducted, and the youth-popular Halloween, in which 35 children with their mothers participated, and some even brought their fathers. Anya, Vasya, and Zakhar help their mother as much as they can. Zakhar, as a true expert, helped choose and purchase toys, and the older children decorated the walls with drawings. And in the near future, Irina plans to hold a pirate party.

Vasily MATYRKA.