The All-Russian campaign “Marathon of Good Deeds” will start on March 1

(KZN.RU, February 27, Mikhail Chentsov). Kazan will participate in the All-Russian campaign “Marathon of Good Deeds”, which starts on March 1, reported Airat Faizov, the chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth, today on the traditional staff meeting in the Executive Committee. Any person, school or city, ready to prove a matter of concern for the environment, may become a participant of the campaign. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, asked to bring information about the campaign to the educational institutions of the city, but without obligations, and then set the task to develop their own program of ecological education of children.

This year's marathon is dedicated to the Year of Ecology. To participate, you must register on the site dobrodela.rf until March 1. Each registered participant will receive a task by doing which he would send the photo report to the organizers. Participants of the campaign will go through 5 stages and perform more than 30 tasks, starting with the collection of waste paper and batteries to organizing large-scale environmental activities in their cities. The winner will receive two tickets to travel to any destination in Russia.

A. Faizov noted that in addition to the sole winner, the organizers plan to identify the 10 kindest schools and 10 kindest cities of Russia. The final rating will be formed based on the total amount of “good deeds”, performed by residents of cities and school students at the event.

According to A. Faizov, the marathon meets the best objectives, set within the framework of the city project “Good Kazan”, which has been declared by the Mayor as one of 12 city's development priorities. “We believe that Kazan can compete for the title of the kindest city in Russia in the environmental aspect, too. In addition to the benefits, which performing tasks will bring, the marathon itself may be another incentive for the initiation adults and children to good deeds”, said the chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth.

Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan asked to bring information about the campaign to the educational institutions of the city and marked the priority of work in this direction. “But without obligations. The President of Tatarstan, after the summary report on the session of the Kazan City Duma, marked the importance of this work and wished to continue it in the scale of the republic. We need to use every occasion to ensure that this work was systematical. As for the environmental education of children, I ask to reckon that we had our own program. Step by step, this is very important to impart environmental knowledge since childhood, along with the skills that school gives”, concluded the Mayor.