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Update the main picture display with a larger version of the some of the people that we meet on our trips to Belarus. All of the projects are funded through fundraising and our Trading Company activities.Update the main picture display with a larger version of a magnificent building in Minsk
Update the main picture display with a larger version of a some of the children of Belarus putting on a show for the Programmes staff during a recent visit.Bath YMCA have close links with Belarus and we help fund the National Office in Lida, plus the Lida YMCA. The activities are run by dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers.
Update the main picture display with a larger version of some examples of objects made from straw, The Straw club is a traditional Belarussain activity. magnificent building in MinskSchool 9 is an English School funded by Bath YMCA which gives pupils from Lida the opportunity to learn English to a standard that enables them to enter University.

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Main picture display for showing the main way in which the Bath YMCA maintains its International Links. We have Links with Belarus and Madrid who send volunteers to the Bath YMCA to work in our Programmes department

Belarus is slightly larger than Ireland and has a population of over 10 million, over 1 ½ million live in the capital Minsk, which is some 2 ¾ hours from London by Belavia the National Airline.

In 1986 a reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant exploded, 12 kms south of the Belarussian border. Some 70% of radiation fall-out fell on Belarussian land. Gamma radiation exceeded natural value by 25 times in Minsk, and 1,500 times on the town of Bragin, 23% of the country was heavily contaminated and still is. It is expected some 40% of children exposed to the radiation will develop thyroid cancer over the next 30 years.

In 1996 Bath YMCA visited Lida, Belarus to create links with the YMCA there. The Lida YMCA was being run (as all the Belarussian YMCA’s) from an apartment. This visit was a result of a talk on the Chernobyl meltdown given at the Bath YMCA.

Bath YMCA have close links with Belarus and we help fund the National Office in Lida, plus the Lida YMCA. The activities are run by dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers.

The projects include :

  TenSing - (singing, drama, dance, band, public speaking and technical :     lighting and sound).

  Straw club – a traditional Belarussain activity.

  Model Club – making model aeroplanes.

  HIV / AIDS awareness.

  School 9 – an English School funded by Bath YMCA. The School gives    pupils from Lida the opportunity to learn English to a standard that    enables them to enter University.

  An International volunteer programme with Bath YMCA and Belarus    programme, allowing a young person to work within our Programme    department for a year.

For more information on Belarus YMCA visit www.ymcabelarus.narod.ru

We have other international links with Madrid YMCA who have sent volunteers over for 3 – 12 months to work in our Programme department.

All of the projects are funded through fundraising and our Trading Company activities.

For more information on Belarus YMCA visit there website