Recently the young people from our new club SalemYouth took part in Salem’s AIDS Xperience simulation. This project develops empathy and compassion towards people suffering with HIV/AIDS, and enables a deeper understanding of the experience of someone at risk of contracting this virus. Along with the SalemYouth guys, a journalist from the newspaper ‘South Kazakhstan’, […]
Back in April, our friends at MISK took over the Salem cafe for a day and ran their very first April Fest. MISK (which stands for The Young People’s Information Service of Kazakhstan) is a partner NGO who we work with and who rent office space on our site. Their activities include various projects designed […]
This little video of the World Without Limits social club was put together when our good friends from Almaty, the talented and popular musicians Amal Tokhtabakiev, Ruslan Kupobaev and Tomas Tomasov (known together here as the group ‘Synthbat’), recently visited Shymkent. They dropped in at the social club to give the guys another great little […]
Here we went again – Nauryz (Kazakh New Year) at Salem: 400 portions of plov 30 litres of tea 20 litres of kvass Over 50 cups of coffee On 20th March, Salem Social Village once more hosted the traditional party to welcome Spring and enjoy the normal fun and food of this ancient local festival. […]
To raise the qualifications of English teachers in Shymkent – that was always Tanya Zaikova’s dream. Finishing university with a Batchelors degree in education, and then getting a Masters in Educational Science, Tanya then began trying to find a way to help young teachers in the areas of professional and personal development, methodologies for working […]
