Andrei Fursenko met heads of the Russian and foreign centers for children

On October, 19, before the Foundation conference of the "Community of organizers of child recreation" the Minister of education and science Andrei Fursenko met the heads of the leading child centers of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Bulgaria.

In the Minister's opinion, "the interaction of child centers will not only help to better organize recreation and health improvement for children but will also let thousands of children from different countries to get closer, to understand how much in common we all have". All the more that the new public organization is created from "below", by the initiative of child centers and with state support.

The participants of the meeting unanimously accepted the idea of unification as actual. The exchange of experience, accumulated during tens of years, coordination of actions, realization of joint projects will be useful for both participants of the organization and children themselves.

By the estimation of Andrei Fursenko, it is very important that the cooperation among child centers will serve purposes of development of good-neighborly relations among our countries and peoples.

On October, 20, at the Foundation conference by the initiative of state and public figures of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries with the support of the Ministry of education and science of Russia of the leading child centers it is supposed to create a public association the "Community of organizers of child recreation".

The child centers of the former USSR will be included into it, such as "Artek" (Ukraine), "Orlyonok", "Ocean", "Smena" (Russia), and also large national child centers of the CIS countries - "Zubryonok" (Belarus), "Baldauren" (Kazakhstan), and Bulgaria - "Camchia".