Press release
On September 1, the international radio Belarus announces the start of a new action called Motherland Calls With Tenderness!. The project is designed to intensify communication with the Belarusians abroad, to increase their interest in their native country and recall historical roots, to emphasize the role of Belarusian diasporas. Every Belarusian abroad can send greetings to fellow countrymen in the form of a video message or photo with an attached letter. The most active participants of the action will receive gifts.
Around three million our compatriots and their descendants in the second and third generations live in different parts of the world. There are a lot of Belarusians among famous people: Israeli political figures Chaim Weizmann and Shimon Peres, researcher and national hero of Chile Ignat Domeyko, Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov, artist Marc Chagall, and many famous Hollywood stars.
Main director of the international radio Belarus Naum Galperovich notes that all of us have our own special places: the places where we were born and grew up, where our relatives and close people live. Radio Belarus will enable compatriots not to lose contact with their native land and send greetings to their small homeland, relatives, friends, countrymen.
Listeners with Belarusian roots from around the world can send online greetings to their small homeland using the email box hellobelarus@gmail.com. One can send a photo of the current place of residence, a photo from the family archive, photos with children and grandchildren, with parents and friends. Greetings in the form of a selfie or a video should be accompanied by a text message. All online greetings will be posted on the official website of the international radio Belarus. The most active and creative participants of the action will receive prizes.
In order to attract attention to the action, information resources of radio Belarus will be used in eight languages: the official website radiobelarus.by, satellite and FM broadcasting, the pages of the radio channel in social networks Facebook and WeChat (for Chinese-speaking participants). In order to establish close contacts with the Belarusian diasporas abroad, the information management resources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus will be used.