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The promotional project "Choosing a Student Squad" brought together over 150 participants in Vitebsk.
The start of the republican promotional project in the northern region was given at the regional institute for the development of education. University and college students who can join student squads in the summer gathered here. Young people were invited to interactive platforms where fighters, commissars, and commanders of the squads that worked in 2023 presented their activities. Those interested filled out application forms for employment and familiarized themselves with an exhibition of achievements.
"Not only students of Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov (VSU) can join our 'From Dawn Till Dusk' squad. We welcome anyone who is 18 years old to join. There are currently 18 people in the squad, and we plan to recruit up to 10 more guys," said Valeria Krot, a third-year student at VSU. "Young people who are interested in summer work have gathered here at the meeting. They come up and ask about the camps where we work. Perhaps they themselves attended this camp as campers in childhood, and now they have the opportunity to work as counselors. This evokes nostalgia and pleasant memories for them."
Potential student squad members joined the activities offered at the interactive platforms. In particular, students from Vitebsk State Medical University named after the Order of Friendship of Peoples (VSMU) conducted several master classes. They demonstrated to interested individuals how to properly apply bandages, measure blood pressure, showed surgical instruments, and much more.
Everyone shared their personal experience in the student squad movement. Last year, Dmitry Kurets, now a fourth-year student at VSMU, joined it for the first time as part of the medical squad "Heroes of Our Time." "We were in Novopolotsk for the republican medical labor project 'Medicus,' working in a hospital. I would like to go this summer as well. In general, student squad life offers many new acquaintances and opportunities not only within the country but also abroad. For example, students from Voronezh State Medical University named after N.N. Burdenko also worked with us," shared the student of the general medicine faculty.
Last year, about 6,000 young people from the Vitebsk region worked in student squads. This figure changes annually depending on the number of facilities and positions offered by employers. "Close joint work is being carried out by the regional headquarters and executive authorities with employers and host organizations. If we are talking about rural
The head of the BRSM regional committee explained that today medical university students can go to work as part of a service student squad in a health resort. And teachers can go to construction sites as auxiliary workers and engage in landscaping, gardening, and so on. "Individual cases include students of Polotsk State University who are studying to be engineers and builders, representing our region in republican projects where specific professional skills are required (these are "Gomselmash", MAZ, construction in Ostrovets). There are projects like Khatyn or the patriotic center in Brest, where students from absolutely any university, regardless of their field of study, can go and work as auxiliary workers," explained Vladimir Babichev.
Meetings within the framework of the promotional project "We Choose a Student Squad" will be held throughout the Vitebsk region from February to June.
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