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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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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