This year, November 29th was marked as the worldwide day of generosity, Giving Tuesday! This new concept, originating in the US as a way of combatting the post-Thanksgiving consumer indulgences of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, has begun to arrive in the post-Soviet world over the last couple of years. It’s really just a day […]
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In the middle of October, the students of our English Centre project finished their last lessons, took their final tests, and awaited the results from their English courses, at whichever level they’d been studying since early September. Many years have shown us that each semester around 30%, the particularly diligent ones, finish with an ‘excellent’ […]
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A big birthday doesn’t come around very often, but when it does you need to mark it well, with a big celebration planned down to the smallest detail. In September, Salem Social Village, or rather our registered organisation, Salem Union, marked the 20th anniversary of charitable activities in Shymkent. And it was a fitting celebration of […]
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The Almaty-based non-profit organisation ‘Love Kazakhstan’ is an inspiring outfit dedicated to helping the most vulnerable groups in society – whether single mothers, the disabled, or anyone else in significant need. One of their active volunteers is Almaz. Some of the Love Kazakhstan volunteers at work Volunteering isn’t a well-understood concept here – people don’t […]
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Our Training Centre project is all about challenging people’s perceptions and attitudes. We have various simulation games which give people a taste of how some people in this world are forced to live – because the more we understand, the more we can empathise, and when we have empathy towards others, we’re inspired to do […]
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