02-06-2012  CELEBRATING OF THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOARD OF BRITAIN’S QUEEN ELIZABETH II IN ALMATY

Our fund has recently found a very good partner - the British-Kazakh Society (BKS). Together with the BKS, "AYALA" charity fund has already held one fund-raising event for the project "Breathe, baby". A month ago, there was held a concert of Marat Bisengaliyev.

In Great Britain the queen-mother is adored, and for the sake of her board’s 60th anniversary or the “diamond” anniversary as it is often called by press, and in these days citizens of the kingdom arrange sumptuous feasts all over the world. The celebration of the anniversary in Almaty was organized by BKS. Traditional British dishes, sandwiches, drinks and sweets were brought specially from Britain. Almost all the subjects of the Queen, who currently live and work in Almaty, attended the festivity.

Celebrations was held in a traditionally funny British style. There was a concert of both professional musicians and students of the Haileybury Almaty school, where the event took place. There was a charity lottery, and all the collected money were transferred to our fund. During the lottery, the Party members contributed a sum of 100,500 tenge to the project "Breathe, baby".

A heavy rainfall became a special "decoration" of the festivity, and it covered all the party guests in a few seconds. The British noticed that it was a real London rain. No one was upset, just the celebration was moved into the school. Most of the guests preferred the British-flag-colored clothes, because the British are very fond of not only their queen, of their flag, but also of their motherland.

This year, BKS plans to hold the fourth charity semi-marathon in Astana, and all funds collected during the race, are also going to be spent on the project "Breathe, baby". The next town, where the Perinatal Center will receive modern medical equipment for the resuscitation department of children, is Petropavlovsk. The detailed information can be found on the site dedicated to the semi-marathon: http://www.bksoc-marathon.org.uk/rus/default.aspx.

Our foundation sincerely thanks all the people who work in the BKS. Many of them are ex-citizens of Kazakhstan or our co-citizens who have been studying in the universities of Great Britain. In this country, a level of charity is one of the highest in the world.