VITEBSK, 3 October (BelTA) – The practice of training volunteers the basics of care for vulnerable needs to be further developed. The statement was made in the office of the Belarusian Red Cross Society for Vitebsk Oblast during the review of the progress made under the project, Improvement of the System of Volunteer Care for Vulnerable in Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus as part of the Cross Border Cooperation Program, BelTA has learned.

Volunteers have been trained the fundamentals of first-aid treatment and kinesthetic senses. The project was launched in December 2013. Volunteers started working in May 2014. The main objective of the project is to help vulnerable and establish cooperation between the national societies of the Red Cross in three countries.

Glubokoe and Braslavy Districts were chosen in Vitebsk Oblast. Due to their farm yard-type settlement it is more difficult to provide assistance to everyone who needs it here. The project has also been launched in a number of districts in Minsk and Grodno Oblasts, border territories of Lithuania and Latvia.

Volunteers pay visits to the persons under care twice a week. They bring personal hygiene and house cleaning products, wound and cut management materials, other things.

Consumable materials, office and other equipment, training events were financed by the European Union.

The project will complete in November. However, every its participant is confident that this volunteering practice should be continued. It is likely the project will be extended.