Meeting-Dialogue “Family – the National Wealth of Belarus” within the Family Week Program

On September 16, 2025, Vitebsk State Medical University hosted a meeting-dialogue between university students and Inna Kostyukovich, head of the Vitebsk Diocesan Center for Maternity, Childhood, and Family Values “Umilenie.”

The main topic of the meeting with first-year students was the important role of the family in the development of the individual, society, and the state. During the discussion, issues such as love for relatives and close ones, marital fidelity, the value of human life, as well as the moral education of future doctors, were addressed.

The meeting took place as part of the educational campaign “Family Week” organized by the cooperation program of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, the Vitebsk and Polotsk dioceses of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, and was dedicated to Saint Alexander Nevsky and his family.

Currently, the state, church, society, and youth are united in efforts aimed at promoting traditional spiritual and moral values focused on strong families, childbirth and child-rearing, and generational continuity. Such events generate interest, foster an active civic and life position among young people, and engage students’ potential in addressing socially significant issues of modern society.