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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more