One year ago, a single mother with four children approached Salem Social Village for help. This kind-hearted and open woman, who had already been on her own for a number of years, was called Gulzhamal. She had a pretty tough situation – her husband had died, she was left looking after a big family alone, […]
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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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There are around 100 children aged 8 to 14 who take our English for kids courses each semester, but we often have very little contact with their parents. So when we decided to change that and put on a meeting with them, what were we to do? Maybe you remember something like it – the […]
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How do you combine earning money and helping the community? Well, one answer is: social entrepreneurship. The term ‘social entrepreneurship’ is one mostly familiar to those working in the charitable world. Conferences and seminars within the small but steadily growing non-profit sector here are increasingly discussing examples of the development of social entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan […]
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Recently a group of active students from the South Kazakhstan State University in Shymkent took part for the first time in our AIDS Xperience – an installation dedicated to helping in the fight against HIV/AIDS and challenging discrimination against people who have the HIV virus. These young people were very positive about this innovative project. […]
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