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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It’s just over a year since we began the campaign to raise funds to replace the roof of our unique charitable project Salem Social Cafe – a place which has become like a second home to many. Over the years its roof reached a dangerous situation and needed some significant capital expense to fix it. […]
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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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