I. Metshin visited the charity warehouse “Good Hands”

(KZN.RU, March 1, Anton Nozdrin). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, visited the charity fund “Day of Good Deeds”. Rustem Khasanov, the director of the fund, told him about the activity directions of the organization and its projects.

The social taxi appeared in Kazan in 2013 thanks to the fund. This is a service for passengers with disabilities. A special minivan is equipped with a ramp, fixings and other technical means to provide the necessary comfort for passengers in wheelchairs. All services are provided free of charge, the project is funded by charitable donations from citizens and organizations. R. Khasanov noted that the most popular routes are to hospitals, rehabilitation centers.

In addition, the fund provides special furniture for seriously ill children, such as chairs for children with a diagnosis of “cerebral palsy”. The furniture is made in Kazan on request of the fund. R. Khasanov noted that almost all the needy in the capital of Tatarstan are provided these products: the queue for the chairs is only 4 children. Shipping is made by the transportation company or volunteers. The director said that the organization has provided such chairs for more than 1000 families in need of them all over the country. For example, a volunteer traveled hundreds of kilometers on his car to deliver the chair to family from the village of the Primorsky Krai. More than 300 Russian families are on the waiting list right now.

I. Metshin also visited the charity warehouse “Good Hands”, located in Kazan on the street Dekabristov, 113. R. Khasanov said that objects, books, and other property are taken from citizens of at the warehouse on weekdays from 9.00 to 18.00. The distribution is from 9.00 to 13.00. The warehouse is not open on weekends. Every object has a certain value in points. “We issue no more than 10 thousand points in one hand, 1 hour is given to the selection of things”, said the director of the fund. People can come for things the unlimited number of times if they have the corresponding direction of social services. “Everything is in demand. We have confidence that things are worn. We see people with clothes, which they have received”, said R. Khasanov.

The Mayor praised the activities of the fund. He instructed to study the issue of opening additional sites for the reception and distribution of things in other parts of the city to reach as many people in need as possible.

The fund “Day of Good Deeds” was originated in 2009 as a voluntary movement, when a group of like-minded people arranged a holiday for children from boarding schools of Tatarstan in the cinema “Mir”. “We named the campaign “Day of Good Deeds”. From there came the name of the fund”, said R. Khasanov. The fund was registered as a non-profit charitable organization in 2012. “We are the union of the people, connected with the idea that if you spend one day in the year not for yourself but for others, then life will be better”, said the director of the fund.

Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, Renat Galyautdinov, the chairman of Land and Property Relations Committee, Sergei Mironov, the head of the Kirovsly and the Privolzhsky districts administration, attended the event.