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October 2013

Children’s Home Has Been Acknowledged As One of the Best Ones

By | “Orkendeu” Project

Children’s Home Has Been Acknowledged As One of the Best Ones  The Republican Review-Competition of the best architectural works for 2012-2013, organized by the League of Architects of the Republic of Kazakhstan, held in Almaty on October 4-6.

In the result of serious selection the project of the Children’s Home in Kyzylorda city, built by Saby Foundation in 2012, was awarded by Diploma of first rate in the nomination of “Construction”. The authors of the project, group of architects and engineers, became prize winners.

Authoritative experts in the field of architecture and city building of Kazakhstan, as well as invited professionals from Russia, acknowledged that social object, if it corresponds to all high quality standards, may be also a real decoration, on the equal basis with the objects of civil engineering, not only of a separate city but the whole country.

We are proud of our Children’s Home!

Become the Person What You Are

By | Project "Education"

Become the Person What You Are Coming closer to the graduation, every high school student starts thinking about the future, looking for his or her own “key to success in life”, thinking on the question “what to become?” Most teens choose a profession on their relatives’advice or by their friends’example, without regard to their character traits, preferences and aptitudes. Unfortunately, such kind of choice hardly ever proves to be successful. As a result, the coveted university diploma lies dusty in a cabinet, and the newlytrained specialist is tempting fate in a completely different field.

Occupational choice is one of the most serious issues facing school leavers and directly influencing their life. That’s why Saby Charitable Foundation organizes annual computer testing for career guidance of the pupils of Almaty children’s homes, which is conducted in two stages, in October and February. The teens welcome this innovation with great interest and responsibility, because everyone wants to test themselves and not to be mistaken in their chosen path. A computer program developed by Moscow State University named after M. Lomonosov gives participants not only accurate guidelines for choosing the specialty, but also advice on the development of skills and preparation for entry into universities.

The first stage of testing is launching in a few days, and we hope that each of our students, having it passed, will be able to say with confidence: “I want to be a…”

Take a book in your hands!

By | Charitable Campaigns

Take a book in your hands! It’s not a secret that with the development of Internet technologies our population, particularly children, fewer and fewer read literature. Almost everyone has the ability to connect to the World Wide Web and it is so interesting move your finger on the touch screen, “stretching” pictures, “turn over” online page, or simply click “the mouse” of the computer without straining your brain by comprehension of a serious information. It is much easier to watch a short video or a film, than to analyze other people’s lives and situations.

It is hard to define unambiguous reasons for this situation. We, for example, see one of it in that tactile connection between the man and the book is lost. Printed publications have become quite expensive and inaccessible for many. In this case, the real pleasure of reading is missing, when you feel the smell of printers ink, you hear the rustle of turning pages, you feel the quality of the paper. Perhaps if to make friends the reader with the real book, newspaper or magazine, we again become “the most reading country in the world”.

To begin promote love to literature in our children is possible through a high-quality children’s and youth publications, which, fortunately, so many in the Kazakh market. The best of them are justly considered to be the newspaper “Ulan”, which has more than 80-years history, children’s magazine “Baldyrgan” – Russian-language equivalent of “Murzilka”, celebrated its 55th anniversary this year, the magazine “Aigolyok” and many others.

“Saby” Charitable Foundation from its side also decided to participate in bringing to the mass reading of children and young people of Kazakhstan. We have issued an annual subscription to 100 copies of company newspapers for 33 children’s social institutions in Kazakhstan. Now every week throughout 2014 year pupils will be delivered the newspaper “Ulan” free of charge and the monthly magazine “Baldyrgan”, in which each child will find a lot of interesting and fascinating and will certainly be surprised.

“Suspended” Coffee from Tonino Guerra

By | Wisdom of the Great

“Suspended” Coffee from Tonino Guerra Tonino Guerra (1920 -2012) — an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter. The author of more than a hundred of movies, many of which belong to the golden fund of the world cinema: Marriage Italian-Style, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, Amarcord, And the Ship Sails On, Ginger and Fred and others. The winner of two Oscars and three Golden Lions, the holder of six nominations at the Cannes Film Festival and two Donatello awards.

Being twenty-year-old, he got to the German concentration camp, where, despite everything, on the verge of life and death he wrote verses and remembered them by heart, since he had neither paper, nor a pencil. These verses brought Guerra to the cinema years later. The troubles of life did not break this bright person; he has lived a long and interesting life, creating a sunny world around himself.

At one of his last visits to Moscow, giving the interview for a radio station, the film writer told the following story:

“When I was writing the script of the Marriage Italian-Style for De Sica, I came to Naples and he invited me to the café. An ordinary café, near the train station; the doors were opened as it was hot summer. And here two men came in and said, “Five coffees: two for us now and three suspended in the air.” They went paying, paid for five coffees, drank two of them and walked away. I asked De Sica, what the suspended coffee was. He told me, “Wait.” Then other people came in: girls drank their coffee and paid regularly, three lawyers came in and ordered seven coffees, “Three for us and four suspended.” They paid for seven, drank and went away, when a young man ordered two coffees, drank one, paid for two and walked away. Thus, De Sica and I sat speaking until the noon, and the doors were opened, so I looked at that square lit by the sun, when I suddenly saw some dark shadow approaching the door. By the very door of the bar I saw that it was a poor man, he peeped in the café and asked, “Do you have some suspended coffee?”

This strange custom came from Naples; there the visitors of cafés leave for the poor not only coffee, but also food. Such charity not in the least depreciates but, quite the contrary, stresses the importance of little but good daily actions.

CNT Marathon – Rush for Points

By | Project "Education"

CNT Marathon – Rush for Points The first difficult weeks of the new academic year, when fingers are all thumb and it is difficult to get into the swing of things, have passed already. All children accustomed themselves to lessons and now it is possible to increase academic assignment.

That is why 8-month courses for CNT preparation are started from October, which organized by Saby Foundation for school leavers from boarding schools of Almaty annually. These trainings require from the future graduates a great diligence and efficiency, because besides attendance of the educational center 2-3 times a week, they have to do their homework. And lessons at school are not cancelled.

But the future graduates are not afraid of such difficulties. To the contrary, they try to improve their knowledge and dream about high points of CNT. Because they have the single chance to get into the number of students of universities, to get higher education and to take a decent position in the labor market.

Young people, selected by Saby Foundation for the participation in the program, begin their CNT marathon. We wish them not to lose their persistence and reach the finish, achieving all set goals.

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