Сharity

Announcement of charity actions

From January 26 to February 6 - participation in the international action in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

March 6. As part of the celebration of the International Women's Day there will be organized a charity artwork exhibition by Ivanova Anya. For four years our school has been providing material assistance to this girl. Having learnt that the girl can draw well, our Secondary School Student Council offered organizing a charity artwork exhibition by Ivanova Anya. All funds raised as a result of this exhibition will be given to Anya.

March 12 - Miras Para Sport. As part of CAS program Grade 11 and 12 IB students will hold competitions for children with infantile cerebral paralysis.

April 18. Nauryz International Fest. Inviting the children of Orphanage 1, boarding schools for visually and hearing impaired children and children with infantile cerebral paralysis diagnosis to the school for Nauryz celebration. There will be gift presentation, horse-riding, swinging, horse and carriage rides, festive dastarkhan (food), and concert participation. In addition, our school organizes transport for all the guests.

April. Cooperation with charity foundation AYALA. (Possible action – The Winners’ Path)Planting trees at the children’s hospice.

April 22 - May 6. Charity actions aimed to help the GPW and Labor Front veterans and participants. Inviting the veterans to the school for the holiday celebration which will be held on May 8, 2020. All grades prepare a grocery basket for each guest and organize their transfer to and from school. Besides, all the funds raised as a result of the charity actions will be given to the veterans as material assistance.

May. Charity action The Box of Courage in the shopping centers of Almaty. Toy drive for children from the children's hospice.

In addition to the above listed actions, we will also continue cooperating with the Children's Section of the Kazakh Research Institute of Oncology and Radiology, shelters for homeless animals, and Almaty zoo.

Christmas charity actions

Charity actions

New Year is the time for good deeds!

From 9 through 13 December our school hosted Christmas charity actions. To collect warm clothes, toys, stationery there were arranged special corners in primary and secondary schools atriums, preschool and kindergarten. The students and parents took active part in it brining New Year’s presents and sharing the warmth of their hearts.

The toys, books, clothes, and stationery collected as a result of the actions were given to the disabled and children of the temporary orphanage in the town of Kapchagai, multi-child and low-income families of Tuimenbayev village, children’s homes in the town of Talgar, and children’s home Solnyshko in Almaty.

We are regular visitors to Kazakh Research Institute of Oncology and Radiology.

Charitable help, toys and books for the holidays - all these were the entire community’s support to the children who are taking treatment courses at the Institute of Oncology. On 13 December 2019 students of 12 IB and our teachers took the New Year’s presents and gave material aid to the Children’s Section of Almaty Institute of Oncology. The children participated in the game program organized by 12IB students and CAS coordinator Arindam Banerjee.

Grade 11A provided material aid which is 55 700 Tenge to the Children’s Section. The money was distributed among 4 children who needed support more, 10 000 Tenge to each one. The remaining sum, 15 700, was given to the institute to repair it.

The students and teachers who took part in the trip on behalf of the entire school community wished the children of the Children’s Section a Happy New Year and speedy recovery.

We have been cooperating with Orphanage 1 for a long time. We often invite the children to school to celebrate holidays and visit them too. The assets raised as a result of fundraising actions at school go the Orphanage. On 16 December the secondary school student council, teachers and parents representing PTA paid a visit to the Orphanage’s children and gave them board games and books. Also secondary school student council paid train fares (which is 50 000 Tenge) for six orphans of the Orphanage to Borovoe sanatorium where they spent New Year’s holidays.

Miras students and teachers wished Ivanova Anya, a student of Gymnasium 60 who is suffering from a serious disease and taking a treatment course at home a Happy New Year.

Our school takes care of the family and provides support to the mother and girl in such a tough situation. This time Grade 10D students gave material aid comprising of 70 000 Tenge, Grade 11A and 11C students collected 148 500 Tenge.

The mother and girl thank the entire school community for their help, support and sympathy.

Collaboration and charitable assistance to boarding schools for children with disabilities is also a part of the charity projects of Miras School. On 23 December our school let Boarding School 2 for the children with infantile cerebral paralysis (ICP) use our school bus. 30 students of the boarding school attended the New Year’s performance in Atakent Exhibition Complex. The Administration of the Boarding School and its students thank our school for its support and provision of the bus.

We thank the whole school community for participating in Christmas charity actions!

Let’s do good deeds together!

Charity Actions

From December 9 to December 13, this school is hosting charitable events as follows:

Name of event	Our action	Who for	Organizers
“Give warmth!”	Collecting warm clothes: Clothes, shoes (for children and adults) Blankets, plaids, etc. For children from the orphanage, “Solnyshko” For poor families.		The Student Council of the primary and middle schools
“Let’s play together!”	Assembling table needles	For pupils from the orphanage #1 For children with the oncological diseases	The Student Council of the primary and middle schools
“Give kindly”	Collecting: Office supplies (paints, pencils, brushes, albums) Children's books	For a baby home in Almaty For children with the oncological diseases	Volunteer movement "PRO DOBRO" The Student Council of the primary and middle schools

For collecting warm clothes, toys, office supplies and books there will be special corners in the atriums of the primary and secondary schools as well as at the kindergarten and preschool.

Acorn Autumn 2019

From 7 to 11 October our school organized a charity action Acorn Autumn 2019.

The purpose of this action was to collect acorns and nuts for the zoo animals.

During this week the whole school community actively participated in this charity event. There were trips to the city parks to collect acorns. In the classrooms, special places were arranged where everyone could bring nuts, seeds and acorns.

As a result of this action, 133,300 kg of acorns, 3, 400 kg of nuts and 2,400 kg of seeds, 14 kg of chestnuts, 1 kg of bird food, 3,100 kg of ground nuts, and 800g of dried fruits were collected.

On 11 October Student Council representatives on behalf of all school employees and students, took the autumn gifts to the zoo.

We hope that the inhabitants of the zoological garden enjoyed their presents!

As a token of their gratitude and continued cooperation, the Zoo Administration issued 32 free tickets to visit the Zoo.

All these tickets will be given to needy and low-income families.

Students of our school have collected some books about nature for the school of young naturalists which were also handed over to the employees of Almaty Zoo.

Please find attached the photos of the action.

Let’s do good together!

Miras ALMAFEST 2019

September 9 to 13 Miras International School hosted the, “Miras ALMAFEST festival.”

This event was as a part of Almaty City Day and International Peace Day.

During the week there were discussions about our city in homeroom hours and the exhibitions of children's art works. Special collection corners were set up for collecting apples in the preschool, primary and secondary schools.

In the Atrium there was an exhibition devoted to the history of the city.

During the breaks the movies, “Shaken Aimanov Kazakhfilm” – “Goodbye, Medeo,” “Our lovely doctor,“ “The angel in a skull-cap were shown.”

Throughout the week, each member of the school community brought apples, which then were handed over to the children of orphanage №1 and the patients of Children's Unit of The Almaty Oncology Institute.

The festival week ended with a tea party with an apple pie, which was backed by the school cafeteria together with Grades 11 and 12 IB students.

Call for Help; Service as Action at Miras

In the middle of February of this year, the Grade 10 students of Miras International School learned from the President of The Public Foundation, “Pravo na Lubov” Mariya Makarova, that Nadezhda Gubina and her grandchildren Alexander and Anna needed our support and help.

This call touched the students as well as their families and teachers. During two days, the students’ parents visited Ms Nadezhda G. to bring groceries of daily necessities and clothes for Sasha, which were bought with money raised by Miras students.

Their home became filled with happiness and joy, and our students made new friends and took a chance to be caring and not indifferent!

“If people do not learn to help each other, then mankind will disappear from the face of the earth.” -Walter Scott

6D Student Makes Trip to Orphanage 1

On 6 January 2019 Miras International School students visited Orphanage 1.

Its children and staff made us very welcome, and were open and friendly!

Grade 6D student Caroline Dubois prepared a range of activities for the children: reading fairytales in three languages (Russian, English and Kazakh), games developing, logical thinking, and more! Most of all, the children enjoyed learning French. Caroline taught the kids simple French words and phrases. This was Caroline's first visit to her new friends. She had worried a lot and thought out her lesson. Her family (the mother, brother and sister) came to support her and participated in this charity action.The kids really enjoyed the lesson! Caroline and her family promised that they would teach the children some more French!

Let's do good deeds together!

“When you do a good deed, you receive the same pleasure that the person for whom you are doing the good deed.” (Unsur Al Maali)

The Day of Good Deeds or “Magic Friday”

Whatever happens in life we should help others,

especially when an ordeal falls to the lot of a child ...

The best way to pay attention is to give children joy.

Our school never forgets about the children from Orphanage 1 and tries to shows its care and attention whenever possible. This time we also delighted them by giving them 50 tickets for the city zoological garden. These tickets were granted by the zoo administration in gratitude for the acorns and nuts collected by our students for the zoo’s inhabitants as a part of Acorn Autumn action. During the festive days of December our students will visit the inhabitants of the city zoo and we hope that they get great joy from communicating with them.

Let’s fulfil a child’s dream

As everyone knows, there are thousands of children who need urgent and expensive treatment and financial support when a mischief comes to their homes.

Another good deed was done last Friday. The family of Leven Nikita, a 6 year-old boy from Shymkent, asked us for help. Nikita is being treated in the Republican Institute of Oncology with a diagnosis of a brain tumor in the left hemisphere. Some 50,000 Tenge was collected and donated by the secondary school student council, school staff and faculty.

Such targeted assistance actions, which we call “Fulfill a child’s dream”, have been held by our school many times. We help to fulfill cherished desires of the children suffering from oncological diseases, which give them strength to live longer; we provide financial assistance for their treatment and surgery, and to buy them toys. The positive and good that we give to sick children is the most powerful therapy for recovery.

On the eve of the New Year’s Day, children especially wait for a miracle and make their cherished wishes.

- We wonder what kind of wishes children in Almaty Oncology Institute make. The wishes of the children from Oncology Institute, which for some time becomes their home, are generally no different from the wishes of other children, except that they dream of quickly getting better and returning home. They are already waiting for Santa Claus with gifts. So Nikita Leven has a cherished dream, and he has already written a letter to Santa Claus where he asked him to give a four-legged friend - a small white dog – Spitz.

Children mostly ask for gadgets, of course. And it is understandable, as smartphones and tablets help them in some way get distracted during long days of staying in the hospital.

During our regular summer visit to the hospital, the medical staff asked us to fulfill the dream of a sick child from a low-income family who had been treated there. It was a six-year old boy called Makhambet Maksat from the far town of Saryagash, Shimkent Region, who was in the hospital with a diagnosis of a brain tumor. He dreamed of a tablet. And his dream has come true. The secondary school student council donated the required amount of money to buy him a tablet. Also, for this purpose the funds earned from the sale of the school newspaper “Miras Times” were used, and our school staff supported this action and provided some financial aid.

The visit on Friday, November 30 was very kind. We learned about the children’s wishes for the New Year’s Day, provided material aid to the family of the sick child, and treated the children to fruit. The smell of tangerines and apples in the rooms which had been brought by us from the cold strengthened the children's expectations of the magical holiday - the New Year’s Day, and hence the hopes for recovery, miracles and surprises ...

We thank all colleagues, students and parents who participate in school charity events.

Never miss a chance to do a good deed, as it's so easy!

“Home of Babies”

Dear friends,

As you know New Year is the time not only for receiving gifts, but also presenting them, at that sharing their warmth and kindness with others. Traditionally, Miras students actively participate in charity actions. As a part of the Charity Festival, students of Grades 11 A/C together with their parents and homeroom leader, decided to help children aged 0–4 years from the “Home of Babies” in the town of Chilik, Almaty region. Parents and students of graduating classes have bought children’s warm clothes and board games worth 400 000 Tenge. On Friday 30 November all the gifts were given to the head physician of the “Home of Babies” and representatives of “Dara” Charity Foundation.

Let's do good deeds together!