Donetsk, June 17, the DNA
Five hundred children left Donetsk today for the sea resort of Saki in the Crimea, reports the DNA correspondent from the scene.
11 buses are to carry the children to the summer camp. Among them – orphans, children of the fallen militiamen and children deprived of parental care.
“Today we are seeing off the first group of children consisting of 500 persons to Saki, to the summer camp “Golubaya volna” (“Blue wave”). They will spend 21 day there. Sports competitions and entertainment program await for the kids – that is, a standard summer-camp schedule”, — Deputy Minister in the Affairs of Youth, Sports and Tourism of the DPR Aleksey Yarosh told the DNA correspondent.
Particularly, children from Dokuchayevsk, the town situated on the front line and regularly shelled by Ukrainian military, are among the group members. As head of the youth, sports and tourism sector of the town administration Larisa Batrakova remarked, “after many nights spent in the basements, the kids are happy to go to the summer camp”.
Soon another group of 500 children will leave for the Black Sea coast. Altogether the camping program is meant for 10 thousands of Donbass children.
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