A reporting event on the results of the charitable work of the Samruk-Kazyna Group of Companies in 2022 was held in Astana today. Summing up the results for the first time was held in a format open to the public. This event gathered together charitable NGOs of Kazakhstan, children and adults from the regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan who received assistance, employees and managers of companies of the Samruk-Kazyna Group, representatives of the media and society.

More funds for charity

In 2022, the Samruk-Kazyna Group of companies increased the budget for charity by 40% to KZT10 billion and focused on supporting children and regions of Kazakhstan. In total, 43 social projects were implemented during the year, about 500 thousand Kazakhstanis received assistance.

The most striking initiatives are: medical trains that helped 80 thousand citizens in the regions; Salamatty Bolashak, thanks to which special children in 15 cities of the Republic of Kazakhstan were able to engage in adaptive sports; delivery of hypothermia devices for resuscitation of infants in the maternity hospitals of Shymkent, Karaganda, Taldykorgan, Aktau, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Uralsk.[

Gibrat Auganov, the Managing Director of Samruk-Kazyna, said that the Fund’s companies intend to increase further spending on charity. In the near future, Samruk-Kazyna will begin transferring 7% of net profit to the social fund “Kazakhstan Halkyna”. According to preliminary estimates, this amount will amount to about KZT130 billion. Thus, the expenses of the Samruk-Kazyna Group of companies for charity will increase by 13 times.

The benefactors have big plans

Before the reporting meeting, a panel session was held, where NGOs of Kazakhstan engaged in charity spoke. They shared their experience of working at the regional and national levels, discussed the latest changes in the field of charity, told about the brightest projects of 2022 and ways to attract funding for good deeds.

The benefactors thanked Samruk-Kazyna for the assistance provided and stated that they have big plans for the future. Representatives of the Fund Group companies expressed their willingness to continue working together for the benefit of citizens.

At the end of the meeting, 30 children from Astana and the regions of Kazakhstan, who received support in 2022, performed. Participants of the Zamandas and Kamkorlyk programs for the creation of children’s clubs and rehabilitation centers for special children are among them. The children and their parents expressed their gratitude for the support provided by reading the poem “Bes Kadam”, composed especially for today’s meeting:

A lark is singing in my heart,

It sang and trusted us.

Our life is like no one else,

There’s no back way for us.

And even the night quenches my hope,

I don't have time to close the soul,

The light of the day makes me happy,

My lark in the morning is waking me up.

I felt its wing on my forehead,

I was afraid of my fate.

Let's go together to the land

The man did not set foot in dreams.

Forget the roads that did not wait for us,

Forget the hands that did not support us.

Look, five steps to be a dream in my life

Have realized in full and they drive.