On December 23, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 470 on awarding the Order of Mother. This was reported to BELTA by the press service of the Head of State.
The award is granted to employees from various fields of activity for the birth and upbringing of five or more children. Among them are representatives of industrial and agro-industrial enterprises, organizations in the construction, petrochemical, and social sectors, the banking sector, pharmaceuticals, trade and communications, educational, healthcare, culture, and sports institutions, as well as individual entrepreneurs and housewives.
Among those awarded are Yulia Dukhovich, a teacher at the Voronovo Secondary School of the Vitebsk District named after I.E. Beskhlebny; Daria Vasilyuk, a confectioner at the confectionery shop of Brest OJSC "Prod'tovary"; Yulia Micyuk, Chairperson of the Board of Housing Consumer Cooperative No. 148 in Brest; Olga Evseeva, a specialist in retail banking services at the retail banking products and services sales department of the retail business center of the Vitebsk Regional Directorate No. 200 of OJSC "Belarusbank" Savings Bank; Natalia Vasilenko, Chief Curator of the Funds of the Center for History and Culture of the Oktyabrsky District; Ekaterina Pikuza, a plasterer at OJSC "Mozyrsky Domostroitelny Kombinat"; Natalia Vecher, a pediatrician and rehabilitation physician at the children's polyclinic of the Volkovysk Central District Hospital; Elena Zhukovskaya, a cook at the Yanovichi Kindergarten of the Kletsk District; and Liliya Panchenko, a plastic moulder at OJSC "Berezinskoye" of the Molodechno District.
A total of 77 residents from the Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, and Minsk regions have been awarded the Order of Mother.