The citywide “Fair of Good” was held on the Day of parks and squares in Kazan

(KZN.RU, September 10, Alsu Safina, Anton Nozdrin). The citywide “Fair of Good” was held on the Day of parks and squares in Kazan, which ended the autumn “Good Week” in the capital of Tatarstan. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of the city, attended charity events in the reconstructed parks and squares, organized by the students of 43 schools and charities.

Days of parks and gardens took place in Kazan in September last year for the first time. The festival program covered several urban areas in the open air: the Lyadskoy garden the park “Sosnovaya Roshcha”, parks Gorky, Pobedy, Uritsky, Millennium, and “Krylya Sovetov”, the Chishmyale square, the Aksenov square and others. This year, the large-scale “Fair of Good” was another test drive for the new Kazan public spaces and the best way to check the city infrastructure for entertainment, cultural and sports activities.

Preparations for the double holiday - the Day of parks and gardens and charity market - began in the morning in several sites: in parks Gorky, “Continent” and “Sosnovaya Rosbcha” (DK Himikov), in the square “Zvezdhy” and others. Improvised trade lines unfolded on the territory of the comfortable recreational areas where everyone could buy crafts and sweets, made by indifferent student of district schools. A saturated concert and entertainment program was waiting for every resident: performances of creative collectives, master classes, contests, draws, flash mobs and field kitchen.

“The City of Good Deeds” has been working since the morning in the park “Zvezdhy” on the Zakieva Street. Guests were handed leaflets with information about the special project “Dobro.Mail.ru” to Kazan at the entrance to the town, which is designed to be convenient for citizens to participate in the charity. The Kazan City Hall and the Mail.Ru Group signed a memorandum of cooperation this week.

Ilsur Metshin talked with children from schools №15, 22, 58, and 72, gymnasium №20 named after A. Alish, representatives of the hippotherapy center “Children”, the Derbyshky orphanage and other educational and charitable organizations in the park “Zvezdny”. The Mayor asked the children if it is the first time they participate in that kind of fair, and learned crafts, prepared by children for participation in the project. “It is very good here. Next year we will definitely participate again”, replied the students. Even the youngest authors of craft know that the raised funds will go to charities for help the needy. The Mayor was presented a collection of poems of children with disabilities “Music of silence”, which was recently presented in Kazan, at the fair.

The citywide “Fair of Good” was held in the park “Sosnovaya Roshcha” with equal panache. Here everyone could buy crafts and sweets, made by students of schools, participate in master classes and charity auction or try the fragrant rice, with which Sergei Mironov, the head of the Kirovskiy and Moskovskiy districts, treated the guests of the holiday. As in the park “Zvezdhy”, the musical program was prepared for visitors. As the Mayor of Kazan noted, parents, grandparents and teachers of young talents can be proud of them. “Children are the most important thing that we have in life, and we want them to grow worthy citizens of our city, republic and the great country”, said Ilsur Metshin. “Today's event is taking place across the city; we looked at all the sites. There are no parks, which would look like other”, he said.

Ilsur Metshin visited the park “Continent”, where the fair was organized for residents of Aviastroitelny and Novo-Savinovsky districts. The Mayor visited the exhibition-sale of children's works. “It is great that you do charity”, I. Metshin addressed to the children. “Good deeds should be done every day”. The Mayor wished the children to grow up good and responsive. “Kazan will be the good and well-maintained city with you”, he said.

In conclusion, Ilsur Metshin thanked all participants of the citywide “Fair of Good”, and above all, children for their open and kind hearts. “As a father of four children and as the Mayor of Kazan, I really want our children to grow good, responsive, and always heard those who need help”, said I. Metshin. “Help is not always in money, it's in a good word, good advice and support. I am glad that our desire to live in good Kazan has found such a response. Let us do all for good in our town and our life would be more”.

Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, Ilsur Hadiullin, the head of the Department of Education, Airat Faizov, the chairman of the Children and Youth Committee of, as well as district heads attended the “Fair of Good” together with the head of the city.

All money, collected during the “Fair of Good”, will go to help children in need.