27 May, Minsk /BELTA/. The Republican campaign "Gift a Child a Football!" will be held in Belarus on 30 and 31 May, the press centre of the Ministry of Education informed BELTA.
This year, as part of the campaign, about 22.5 thousand first-graders from more than 2 thousand educational institutions of the country will receive a football as a gift before the start of the summer school holidays and will be able to get involved in the world's most popular sport.
Representatives of the Ministry of Education, the Football Federation of Belarus and OJSC "Belagroprombank" will take part in the official events and present the football equipment to the children. The official opening ceremony of the campaign will take place on 30 May. On this day, first-graders of the Ozeritsko-Slobodskaya secondary school in the agro-town of Sloboda, Smolevichi district, Minsk region, will receive gifts from the Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Football Federation of Belarus, Sergey Rumasa, Minister of Education, Sergey Maskevich, and Chairman of the Board of OJSC "Belagroprombank", Vladimir Podkovyrov.
The project is organised by the Football Federation of Belarus, the Ministry of Education and OJSC "Belagroprombank".-0-