LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER PARTICIPATED IN THE PRESENTATION OF CAPS FOR AFGHANISTAN’S CHILDREN
On 5 October, Lithuania’s Foreign Vice-Minister Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė took part in a ceremony, during which caps for the children of Afghanistan were presented.
The collected caps were knitted by the Lithuanian people, when implementing a project “Warm caps for Afghan children”. The project was financed from the funds of the Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Programme of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the ceremony, the caps were handed over to the tenth Lithuanian shift of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) of the Ghor Province in Afghanistan.
During the ceremony at the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania, Vice-Minister A.Skaisgirytė Liauškienė thanked the volunteers of Caritas in Lithuania for their genuine effort to contribute to the goal of Lithuania and international community to guarantee peace, security, social and economic development of the Ghor Province.
The Vice-Minister invited the Lithuanian people to launch new initiatives, which would bring the societies of Lithuania and Afghanistan closer and would be dedicated to support the neediest inhabitants of Afghanistan.
Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė, General Director of Caritas in Lithuania, priest Robertas Grigas, Chief of the tenth shift of Provincial Reconstruction Team, Lt Col Gediminas Macijauskas were also present at the ceremony of donation of the caps.
The goal of the campaign “Warm caps for Afghan children” was to involve the volunteers of Caritas in Lithuania and the Lithuanian people into this campaign of support and to have 500 caps knitted for the children of the Ghor Province, as well as to get the society better acquainted with Lithuania’s mission in Afghanistan. The result has surpassed all the expectations of the initiators of the project and its implementers, because from July to September the Lithuanian people knitted over 3 thousand caps for the children of Ghor.
Groups of elderly ladies from communities in Krekenava, Palemonas, Tauragė, Kaunas Panemunė nursing home and the nursing home of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Marijampolė were especially active in knitting and donating the caps.
This winter, the tenth shift of Provincial Reconstruction Team will distribute caps with patterns of the national flags of Afghanistan and Lithuania to children.
For more information on the Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Projects of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs please visit here.
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