27-01-2010  PRESS CONFERENCE

In the building of the First President Foundation of the Republic of Kazakhstan held a commemorative meeting of the Association of Charity Foundations. Year ago at the same meeting establishment of the Association was declared. Results of a year briefly submitted the executive director Bektas Gafurovich Mukhamedzhanov. Results are many. About establishment of an information portal “Charity in Kazakhstan” presentation made president of the Public Foundation “Shyn Zhurekten” Mikhail Filonov. Presentation was made by the Public Association “International Associations of Social Projects” Silvia Galbiati and Ticiana Gualtieri. Initiative group “The league of volunteers”  Alina Yuldabaeva and Michael Koval presented the ways of development of volunteering in Kazakhstan. About the development of the” Association of Charity Foundations” has told president of “Baurzhan” foundation Zhuldyz Aytbayev. This question provoked a lively discussion in the lobby. It was decided to begin legal registration of the association as before this association did not form a legal entity, Membership in Association is voluntary and free. On this stage in order to better solve the issues which nonprofit organizations faces, registration of legal entity is necessary. Working name of this legal entity - the “Association of Charity Organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan”. Work in this direction has already begun.