As Salem Social Village grows in its role of helping the development of other non-profits, charities and NGOs in the city, we make lots of friends. One of our partners, who are also working to inspire young people towards greater things, is ’13th Legion’. It’s an unusual name, but they are a bunch of guys […]
It’s always great when we get to welcome guests to Salem, and in April two of our friends from Almaty came by. The former lead singers of the popular Almaty groups “Skillz Band” and “Remark” held a bit of a concert in the Salem Social Cafe. Together, Amal and Ruslan now form a duo called […]
International Women’s Day isn’t, it seems, observed quite as uniformly around the world as some might think. In many countries it’s a massive event; in others, primarily in the West, many simply haven’t heard of it, whilst those who do can often respond with some incredulity. But for this part of the world, the 8th of […]
One of the key things we do, and love doing, here at Salem Social Village, is to help people help other people – bringing change to communities by equipping those who can themselves bring change, or who are already doing it. In the Autumn/Fall of 2014, our Humanitarian Aid project was contacted by the chairman […]
You’ve probably heard us talk about our volunteers a lot already, but here’s a chance to actually watch some of what they get up to. You don’t need to understand any Russian to enjoy this one, and, just for the record, we don’t generally get them to actually do all this in just one day!
