Indeed, one often has to answer the question of ordinary people,
and strangers at all, and people who represent some kind of media:
“Why are you doing charity work?”
It is very difficult for me to always answer this question,
because either, if you need to answer, it’s a lot,
or it is impossible to explain simply.
Because it seems to me that in general there are such things,
which are considered the norm, which should be in our lives,
As if the rain is coming today or, I do not know, the sun rises in the morning.
Probably, these things are laid in us,
in our roots, in our education, in our family, in the first place.
Suppose, if I remember my grandmothers, grandfathers,
I’m sure that everyone in the hall has exactly the same family stories,
because, unfortunately, everyone had to go through the war.
And after the war, when it was very difficult, when they found the grandmother’s sisters,
who lived in a dugout, they were brought to our land of Kazakhstan,
unloaded from the cars, and they survived only because,
that here lived some simple, very kind people,
who could not just watch,
as people brought from different parts of our country will die of hunger.
You look back at their time and realize how heroic it really is,
and how in fact for those people it was important
to keep in itself decency, honesty, openness,
the ability to bring up in their children love,
love of peace, faith, faith in people, in each other.
My grandfather with my father’s side and his family fell under Goloshtekin,
such harsh times when they killed everyone,
and he was hidden under a large cauldron, and he simply was not noticed.
And he was brought up in an orphanage.
He said that there was a time when we did not have orphanages.
And this is terrible – the fact that the child does not have a family and he is brought up somewhere.
And we, the Kazakhs, must do something in order to revive
this is our culture, when there are no old people’s homes, there are no children’s homes,
but there are happy children who are brought up in families.
Of course, here is the time of the Soviet Union,
which put us, people who are over 30 or 25, a big imprint,
it was very good time from the point of view,
that we had good concepts.
That’s good, that’s bad.
You must respect the elders, help the younger.
If you did some kind of meanness, if you did something wrong,
then in this society you are dependent
from this attitude to your actions and to your life.
And then, when perestroika came, they begin to respect for,
that you have Vertu or some particular brand of the car.
And the status of a person, its value, it has changed very much.
That is, you can not explain to the child that the fact that he does not have a PSP –
it’s nothing to worry about, and he will not die of it.
I agree with the material values
in terms of what concerns charity.
There is no this money – the child will die,
there is no money for these disabled people
or adult children who need drugs.
You know, here’s the HOUSE – “Voluntary Society for Mercy”
my life turned upside down in general.
I was probably the same as many others.
It seemed to me that everyone thinks for himself:
you have to think about your career, you have to do something about it,
so that your children are provided and so on.
But somehow it happened that in the “Center of Gravity” – “
very many thanks to the Internet of today, which gives the opportunity to meet, –
I met people, like-minded people,
who, just like me, visited children’s homes from time to time.
We joined together in the group of 10, 15, 20 people,
met weekly, collected some money
on the ball pools of children in the house of the child, on shoes, on something else.
And from here this little brook, the theme “Helping orphans” on CT,
there was a branch of charity, and then the house finally appeared.
Why?
Now, too, you remember, there was never such a goal in life,
that I will grow up, I will be engaged in charity,
I’ll be there in our country, that’s there, absolutely not.
Just our child from the orphanage
was admitted to the oncohematological department of the Institute of Pediatrics of the IMU.
Excluded the blood disease, in fact he had portal hypertension,
He was then operated on to remove the spleen.
But we met there with families, with children,
who suffer from oncohematological diseases.
They constantly need blood transfusions.
And, of course, to see when parents from different parts of Kazakhstan,
who in Almaty do not even have relatives, no acquaintances,
in this constant search for people,
which for their child will donate blood, of course, this is impossible.
My friends worked for nothing, they shot a video,
probably, one of you saw it, it’s “Become a donor – give your children life.”
And it so happened that here is our little girl, Lenochka, who starred in this video,
it was in October 2005, in January, the twelfth, 2006, died.
They were New Year holidays, people celebrated the New Year,
in the blood banks came very few people, well, it’s traditional, so always.
This, of course, is terrible, but at the funeral at Lenochka
Vova’s mother came up to me, and she says:
“You know, my child has a relapse of leukemia,
he needs a bone marrow transplant, but we do not have 85 thousand dollars.
This is the cheapest price in Minsk. “
I wrote a letter at night – my children were small, asleep –
that my name is Aruzhan Sain, I am a TV presenter, I hope you saw our programs.
I write to you because there is a boy Vova, who is nine years old and who has trouble.
I tell about my mother, I give phones: her, clinics, her own.
I place this letter on the DH and send it to the contact list.
I do not know how many times this letter went around our Kazakhstan,
but we raised money for three children.
I was stunned by the fact that around us, we just do not see it,
we in Kazakhstan live very kind, very responsive,
very active people with an active civic stand.
Just a person should know where to go and what to do,
because you can not go out and say: “Ay! Who needs help? “
Unfortunately, Vova did not succeed in saving, because after the third relapse here,
in Minsk for him fought for six months.
But there are two girls who went there and who collected money
thanks to these charges on Vova, they live, and they are doing well.
And we have already registered with despair the “Voluntary Society of Mercy”
because it was necessary somehow to master this money.
And since that time, officially since 2007 our action has started
“Give children life,” where, you know, hundreds of thousands of citizens of Kazakhstan,
sending SMS, transferring money online or through a bank,
they here so realize the part of soul,
convey their wishes, and it really works.
Because today there are more than 260 children of Kazakhstan,
which you gave life.
(Applause)
Thank you.
But anyway, all this time I have until some specific period
there was such an internal struggle, because it is impossible to look at it.
When these moms come with their children, they tell their stories,
they cry, they tell such things,
about which every time you think that this can not be.
That is, for me, you know, it’s like the forces of darkness and light.
That is, a situation where it can not be that people are so cruel,
it can not be that people are so indifferent.
And then, on the other hand, that can not be, but it’s the truth,
that people unite around this one child.
I had problems of just such a moral character.
It seemed to me that all the children were sick, that this was inevitable.
I came home, grabbed my children, I looked at them, it seemed to me,
sooner or later, every person faces this.
And now I was explained to somehow this very simply,
that you have to put on the scales here are two situations.
When you do not, these children will still be,
and there will be disabled people, and there will be people who are in trouble.
But you will not know about them.
That is, you will know theoretically what they are,
and you will, of course, feel better in something.
But will it be easier for you to do nothing or?
All the same they are, you will still know about them,
you will cross them, you will somehow participate in their lives.
But you will understand that from the fact that you do something at least a little,
the life of at least one of these people is changing for the better.
And how will it be easier for you to live? With what understanding on the soul?
And, of course, I thought a lot then.
And I think, probably, that it is much easier to live,
when you know that you are doing something,
that you are not just as though abstracted from everything you live.
Here of the people who help, many help,
pay for the entire treatment of children, not even mentioning their names,
forbid going out to look at the number of the car,
that, God forbid, we did not guess who these people are.
Someone in their companies is doing a great job,
to persuade the leadership,
to provoke the founders in order to somehow help.
I felt this especially when we had a chance.
Oh, I can not talk about it calmly!
The guy comes to our office, says:
“Aruzhan, you know, this is you – HOME?” “Yes, here is the HOUSE”.
And the guy somehow says: “You know, this is not my money, I will not,
I will not go to any bank, my grandmother died a week ago.
And before she died, she said that she had left from her accumulated
there are all the pensions of the 19 thousand that she bequeaths to your HOME. “
I do not know when an elderly person who has lived a life, probably,
as if every donation, every fee that comes,
somehow, probably, someone is being so,
that he comes exactly to where this person directed him.
Because, well, I do not know, we gave this money to my mother,
who did not have money for the ticket, that is, she did not have the opportunity
to get to Tomsk with his child, we paid for the operation.
Because if you start to ask yourself questions,
who needs it more: those to whom we help, or to us?
For me the answer to the question is to us.
Why do I do charity? Because I need it.
I have some “selfish” goals in all this.
I want my children to live in the country,
where everything, at least, will be much better than we have today,
and this will be our merit.
When you start to do something, it all starts to happen around,
and I understand that they say the same: you want to change the world – start with yourself!
And it turns out that if we want to live in a bright, beautiful future,
when we have healthy children, an active, good society,
a good government that will take care of –
it means, probably, that it is necessary to become such,
how you want to be surrounded by people, the same people.
(Applause)
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