The Youth Public Union Healthy Choice is a registered, non-government, non-for-profit public association established on the basis of free-will association of young citizens. Our goal is to assist in creating favorable conditions for intellectual, moral and physical development of needy children and young people.

Healthy Choice was registered on October 4, 2002 by the Justice Department of the Minsk Municipal Executive Committee. The registration certificate No. 05/0351. The initiators of creation of the organization were citizens of the Republic of Belarus - highly qualified pedagogues, psychologists, lawyers and social workers.

The areas of concern of our organization:

 - training children and youth from high-risk groups in vitally important skills;

 - promotion healthy lifestyle and responsible behavior;

 - rendering of social and psychological assistance to single mothers and their children, including from boarding school;

 - training children and youth in conflict resolution and leadership 
skills;

 - helping institutionalized children in their independent live.

The principal aim is to improve the process of socialization aimed at
equipping the child with the knowledge and skills required to live an
individual life in society.

We work with three boarding institutions for orphan children, including one for mentally disabled children.

Our methods of work include:

 1. Drama school where children play different social roles and specific life situations, discuss and develop certain social skills.

 2. Trainings. Group work in small groups on given themes, such as
 "personality; feelings; self-appraisal; confidence; communication; choice and responsibility", etc.

 3. Individual work. These include a series of consultations rendered by a psychologist, a social pedagogue, a legal expert.

 4. Workshops for pedagogical staff. They for the most part are to be devoted to the issue of alcohol and drug abuse prevention among at risk adolescents and institutionalized children.

 5. Actions. They include different concerts, olympiads, thematic events, competitions, sporting events which aim is to unite a group or disseminate information.

 6. Self-support group. We are trying to organize a self-support group for graduates of institutions (i.e. state boarding schools and children's homes). In the very group children can share their life experiences, speak out their feelings, openly discuss their problems and learn how to bridge over them.

The cardinal principle we use in our work is open communication with children and establishment of mutually responsible partnership relations.

We are interested to establish partnership relations with our NGO for exchanging experiences of work with needy children and carrying out activity  for orphans (including mentally disabled) placed into the institutional care.