Targets and goals
THE SUBJECT, GOALS, TASKS AND METHODS OF ACTIVITY OF THE FUND FOR PEACE
The subject of the activities of the Fund of Peace is to mobilize funds and public efforts for the implementation of programs aimed at peacekeeping, charitable and other humanitarian activities.
The goals of the Fund of Peace are to strengthen peace, friendship, mutual understanding and harmony between people and the nations, to promote and implement the ideas of charity and humanism.
In order to achieve these goals the Fund of Peace performs the following tasks:
- establishes and maintains friendly relations with progressive foreign non-governmental organizations and individual citizens, as well as with Belarusians who live abroad;
- содействует воспитанию граждан на принципах мира, дружбы, взаимопонимания и согласия, преодолению социальной разобщенности и национальной розни между людьми, укреплению единства белорусского общества;
- promotes upbringing of citizens on the principles of peace, friendship, mutual understanding and harmony, overcoming of social dissent and national discord between people, strengthening of unity of the Belarusian society;
- participates in work on perpetuating of memory of defenders of the Fatherland and victims of wars, and also veterans of work who made the big contribution to development of the republic; as well as taking part in construction, reconstruction and repair of monuments and obelisks, the maintenance of burial places of the dead;
- takes care of improving the material living conditions of war and labor veterans, families of fallen soldiers and guerrillas, some other categories of citizens who need help;
- supports citizens who have been victims of accidents, natural disasters, catastrophes and other emergencies, refugees and displaced persons; helps to minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster;
- provides assistance to orphans, children left without parents, children with disabilities, the poor, large and single-parent families; supports activities aimed at enhancing the role of the family in the upbringing of the younger generation;
- participates in realization of the most important educational and cultural programs, in development of national culture, national creativity and national crafts, preservation of historical and cultural heritage;
- promotes development of the Olympic and Paralympic movements, sports and improving and sports work, and also veteran, children’s and youth tourism;
- participates in the activities of public health protection and promotion of healthy lifestyles, recovery of victims of the Chernobyl accident and other emergencies;
- supports gifted children and young talents;
- takes part in financing of campaigns and events, held in conjunction with veterans’, children’s, women’s and youth organizations, organizations of disabled persons, and other organizations whose activities are not contrary to the activities of the peace Foundation;
The Fund of Peace uses the following methods to achieve its statutory goals and objectives:
- carries out promotion of the purposes, tasks and methods of the activity, forms wide asset of the Fund of Peace in the cities, areas, labor collectives, organizations, educational institutions and in the residence of citizens;
- attracts from physical persons and legal entities of the Republic voluntary donations in cash and material form, including from foreign organizations and citizens, to finance its statutory activities;
- keeps on their account, distributes, and consumes incoming cash, dispose of other material values which are in his possession;
- distributes and gives out the arriving humanitarian aid, accepts from the population clothes and footwear suitable for further use and gives them to needy citizens;
- organizes rehabilitation of children in the territory of the Republic of Belarus and in foreign countries, sends delegations to participate in international events;
- involves in its work representatives of political parties, scientific and cultural figures, representatives of other public associations, representatives of religious organizations and other segments of the population;
- in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, engages in publishing activities;
- forms and contains the necessary workforce, attracting individuals to perform work under civil contracts;
- directs to official business trips the employees of the Fund of Peace to perform tasks on the territory of the Republic of Belarus and in foreign countries;
- carries out in accordance with the established procedure business activity if it is necessary for the authorized purposes for the sake of which the Fund of Peace is created, corresponds to these purposes and corresponds to a subject of activity of the Fund of Peace. Such activities may be carried out by the peace Fund through the formation and (or) participation in commercial organizations, unless otherwise provided by legislative acts of the Republic of Belarus;
- acquires and leases the property necessary for the implementation of statutory activities.