Alem – support of young talents

We have shared our news about creative trips of employees of the “Saby” Foundation to regions of our country with the aim to develop the “Alem” Programme to support young talents. And now we want to show you some video materials containing performance of children who wish greatly to participate in our project.

A young singer Akkenzhe from Aiteke bi village of Kyzylorda oblast has won several times top places in regional and republican vocal competitions and she wishes to connect her life with music. Akkenzhe sings Kazakh folk songs.

Alpamys, a tenth-form pupil from Beibars village of Atyrau oblast reads a poem of Mukhtar Shakhanov. During the performance he got deserved applause of all attendees. Alpamys shared his plans for the future – he is going to become a philologist, and nobody doubted his success in this field.

We are looking forward to meet new participants of the “Alem” Programme. Guys, send us your CVs!

The “Alem” Programme, the purpose of which is to support young talents, continues searching for talented children throughout the whole territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This time the west region is the center of events.

For this responsible mission a regular creative business trip of an employee of the “Saby” Charitable Foundation was organized to Atyrau oblast.

The familiarization with the “Alem” Program took place in seven educational institutions of Atyrau oblast. During the first day of the trip discussion were held with pupils and teachers from 2 schools of the Makhambet village.

The third day and the fourth one were geographically vaster. Children from Beibarys, Sarytogai, Saraichik and Aktogai were waiting for a meeting with our representative and showed high activity in their intention to participate in the Programme.

The main purpose of the trip was to find talented children from the depth of our country and, in our opinion, we have achieved that purpose: we are very interested in some potential participants of the “Alem” Programme and we do hope that experts of the “Alem” Programme will be able to confirm and develop their abilities.

According to the existing tradition of such trips, our representative has also visited the Mugedek Alemi Public Association – an organization sponsored by the “Saby” Charitable Foundation under the Project “Decent Life to Disabled Persons”. A briefing with Chairman of the society of the disabled persons has also been attended by an employee of the City Department of Employment and Social Protection of Population.

The trilateral discussion of functioning of the Invataxi Service included matters related to improvement of conditions for provision of social taxi services to disabled persons, including a matter regarding the necessity for increase in financing of the service from the municipal budget next year.

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The stars of Russian cinema and show business such as Gosha Kutsenko, Yevgeniy Stychkin and Dmitriy Nagiev answer the questions of Foundation “Saby” about the “Alem” Program to support young talents, about the necessity to render assistance to the talented young people, about the principles of charity.

On November 10 a children’s chess club “SABY-CHESS” started its functioning in the Almaty Towers building, whose opening has become possible due to the support of our Foundation, which has paid full equipment of the club (see details).

A junior qualifying tournament dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan and organized by the Almaty Association of Chess Players was held from 10 till 13 of November in the club. As we promised, we present you its results.

More than 40 schoolboys, including apprentices of Almaty trainers and children from Atyrau took participation in the contest of minds. The game was held on the basis of a controlled Swiss system in 7 rounds. In the hard competition, based on scores, three children from Almaty have got a second level, and a fourth level have surrendered to five athletes from southern capital.

In addition, the Chief Referee, Master of Sports and chess trainer, S.N. Kim, noted among the participants several other young, but promising chess players.

We sincerely wish the guys great victories and do believe that the future of chess sport of Kazakhstan is in safe hands!

Dear friends!
We are pleased to inform you that the “Saby” Charitable Foundation is currently preparing a large-scale action, details of which are kept in secrecy. Its purpose is to raise funds for further development of the “Alem” Programme for the support of young talents. At the moment, we are performing serious preparatory work, the results of which will soon be notified to you.

As you know, the activities of our Foundation in this area varies widely, but in all of our activities we adhere to the principle of “smart charity”, when the priority is given not to financial aid but to the support that encourages the development of talents and further formation of the country’s youth.

Therefore, we appeal to young talents: “Do not bury your talents, assert yourselves to the world through our “Alem” Programme!”

Details of the “Alem” Programme of the “Saby” Foundation are available at our fashionable and advanced website: www.alemthebig.kz

Guys, we are waiting for you!

There was a time when our country was not only the most reading one in the world, but also the country having the highest number of chess-players. At that time this ancient game took a great place in the upbringing a culture of thinking. Chess increased discipline and developed concentration and memory. Today, unfortunately, we have less and less people who are keen on chess-playing. And all of them are mostly adult people of the old school. Unfortunately, chess is not so popular among children and youth. Of course, there are many other activities, games and arts which allow them to develop personal characteristics, but chess takes a special place.

In order to revive the best traditions of the past century, the “Saby” Charitable Foundation has decided to assist the Almaty Union of Chess-Players in acquiring the necessary inventory instead of obsolete one.
For this purpose we have purchased professional chess clock (the Netherlands) and figures (Russia) in Moscow, and Kazakhstan’s famous furniture companies have produced special tournament tables and chairs. The whole inventory corresponds fully to international FIDE standards.

Currently, the Union of Chess-Players is performing preparatory work for the organization of a children’s qualifying tournament dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, where young Grand Masters will be able to appreciate new inventory. We hope that their game will be even more effective and progressive, which will certainly be announced at our site.

Continuing the search for young talents in rural areas of Kazakhstan the “Saby” Foundation has initiated a new business trip of a of the “Alem” programme for the support of young talents. The destination of the trip has become Kyzylorda region, where our Foundation has been operating for several years.

Meetings with pupils of several educational institutions were held in order to present the “Alem” programme. Two schools of the Aiteke bi village of Kazalinsky district, No 170 and No 249, have become the first in the list of visits. Children were looking forward to the meeting to demonstrate their talents and ask lots of questions regarding conditions of participation in the programme. Hospitable reception and warm fellowship with pupils were very impressing and left the warmest memories.

The next point of destination was Kyzylorda, more precisely, our sponsored institution – Boarding School No 1 for orphans and children left without parental care. The story about great opportunities offered by our project, of course, was interesting both for children and staff of the Boarding School.

The trip has resulted in the pre-selection of several promising children who have a great chance to become participants of the “Alem” programme and get full support from the “Saby” Foundation to develop their extraordinary abilities.

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Participants of the “Alem” programme, young and talented vocalists Timur Aldybergenov and Zhassulan Sadykov have been attending English courses from the beginning of the school year thanks to the support of the “Saby” Foundation.

According to experts of the Foundation, fluency in the English language is as necessary in the modern show business as serious music education. Participants of the “Alem” programme, on whom we pin our great hopes, will be studying in a tutoring center for several months.

Timur and Zhassulan not only study in the Almaty State Conservatory named after Kurmangazy by grants provided by our Foundation, but get also full support in their creative and educational activities.

Along with numerous applications from “Alem” Program potential participants we receive from different regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, there is also a great number of CVs from those children who are seriously engaged in composing poems. About the high esteem given to young poets by Sultan Kali, the expert in the domain of literature, we have already written on the pages of our web-site.

Soltanov Beknur – a talented boy of sixteen year old from Semey whose poems are being published both in local newspapers and journals – thanks to his talent and a pro-active approach to life he has become one of those lucky boys and girls – receivers of grants under the “Alem” Program being nominated in the “Literature-Poetry” category.
Being a young poet, reciter and a great don of his native language, Beknur participated in numerous competitions and took only winning places.

To encourage his present and future undertakings, the “Saby” Charitable Foundation has decided to award Beknur with a brand new laptop computer which will help him in making much progress in writing poems.

The “Saby” Charitable Foundation celebrates a small but very significant event – a year has passed since the start of the “Alem” Programme the purpose of which is to support young talents, and we are summing up the first results:

During the year our committee has processed over 160 applications from candidates from more than 20 cities and villages of our country. We have organized visits of the Foundation’s employees to 8 populated areas in order to inform young people about the conditions of the Programme.

Specialists have held 8 creative auditions in the field of vocal, as a result of which two young singers having unique voices Zhassulan Sydykov from Kostanay and Timur Aldybergenov from Almaty oblast have received grants to study in the Kazakh National Conservatory.

Another two participants, Assanova Shamshyrak from Aktobe region and Lushnikova Yelena from Petropavlovsk have received educational grants under the “Alem” Programme and entered prestigious educational institutions: Yelena – the University of Medicine, and Shamshyrak – College of Music.

In anticipation of our little anniversary we have organized a personal exhibition of the youngest participant of the “Alem” Programme” – Roman Kuznetsov from Petropavlovsk. His works have been presented to the visitors in the Directorate of Art Exhibitions in Almaty.

We also provide our support to strong-willed children who, for some reason, have not become participants of the “Alem” Programme but who have made their best efforts for that end. Thus, Khametov Anuar, a novice sculptor, and a young poet Soltanov Beknur, both from Semey, have received gifts from the “Saby” Foundation – laptops – as a reward for their creativity.

Significant work has been carried out in collaboration with Timur Bekmambetov on the implementing a joint project – Scenario Competition to seek and select talented writers from all over Kazakhstan, the winner of which was our compatriot Bakhtior Kadyrov.

We believe that each of the children will meet expectations of the Foundation and will become an excellent specialist in a chosen field.

Good luck, the first participants of the “Alem” Programme!