The closing ceremony of the Year of Youth with the participation of Head of State has kicked off in the Kazakh capital.
The ceremony will put an end to the Year of Youth and give the start to the Year of Volunteer in Kazakhstan. Some 500 young people from all parts of Kazakhstan gathered to participate in the ceremony. The event is underway in one of the EXPO pavilions where the ArtHUB center of creative initiatives is set to be created. It will serve as an intellectual bank of Kazakhstani youth. 2019 was declared the Year of Youth on the initiative of First President of Kazakhstan-Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The Government adopted the Roadmap on the implementation of the Year of Youth and made sure the young people would be provided with affordable housing, new workplaces, business opportunities and more throughout the year. In 2019, 3,000 young people were provided with rental housing in three large cities of Kazakhstan (1,050 apartments in Nur-Sultan, 1,050 apartments in Almaty and 900 apartments in Shymkent). Over 3,000 young specialists were granted publicly funded loans to the amount of KZT 13,5 billion so that they could purchase their own dwellings. It is worth mentioning that some 172,000 young people were employed within the framework of the Yenbek (Labor) State Program over the past year.
By Kazinform.
Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has voiced the directions of voluntary activity.
«Volunteers may undertake patronage of orphan children. Patients care management and medical volunteering will be developed though «Saulyk» project. «Taza Alem» project is related to environmental safety, cleanup of rivers and woods, treeplanting and waste sorting. «Asyl Mura» projects will involve volunteers in preservation of cultural historical values of our people.
«Kamkor» – aims at volunteering in retirement homes. «Bilim» program helps upper pupils in preparation for UNT, studying English and computer knowledge. In turn, in the light of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War «Umit» project aims at research for documents about heroic deeds of our compatriots», Tokayev said.
The president added that it is needed to attract juridical volunteers in order to improve law knowledge and provide consultative assistance to the people. Tokayev informed that the state will allocate grants to support NGOs. He proposed to introduce a methodology of including voluntary work in labor experience.
By Kazinform.
