September 2011

Cooperation of the “Saby” Foundation with an educational center that trained senior pupils from our sponsored orphanages to the Unified National Testing during the last year will continue this year. Graduates, who had attended tutoring courses, showed a very good level of knowledge, and most of them entered the universities by state education grants. Such a result pleased everyone – teachers, our Foundation and, of course, the students themselves.

Management of our Foundation has assessed the positive experience and decided to continue cooperation with tutors. At the same time, children from orphanages of Almaty inspired by the success of elder friends have started visiting the courses.

According to the approved programme students will gain knowledge on 5 subjects: four basic (history, mathematics, Kazakh, Russian) and one main subject at choice.

At the beginning of a new school year thousands of yesterday’s graduates across the country crossed the threshold of secondary and higher education institutions. This year, within the framework of the Education Project, grants of the “Saby” Foundation for education were given to 34 children from orphanages and boarding schools from different parts of Kazakhstan, 8 of which were first-year students.

Children receive support of the Foundation relating to financing of education because of good progress at school, active social activities and, to a large extent, a choice of specialties that are in demand on the labor market.

Unfortunately, at the present time prestige of profession of a primary school teacher, or, say, logistician is unfairly undervalued. But nearly a decade of experience of the Foundation in the field of education has shown that young people who received such professions can always get a job and have a small but steady income. If desired, young people continue their further study increasing the level of their education and a social status as well.