I. Metshin: “The victory of our funds in the competition of socially significant projects is largely due to the urban project “Good Kazan”

(KZN.RU, June 4, Ksenia Shvetsova). The Kazan charitable and public organizations received 100 million more this year during the competition for grants of the President of the Russian Federation. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, believes that this is a great merit of the urban project “Good Kazan”. The total amount of support for Kazan projects amounted to 116 million 517 thousand 463 rubles.

“Presidential grants are an invaluable aid for charitable public organizations. The decision of the state to provide such support is a big step forward for our entire society. It is the encouragement of active communities that have chosen an arduous path of philanthropy and charity in favor of people who need help”, noted I. Meshin. “Thanks to the President of the country that such projects are supported”.

Last Friday, it became known that 58 projects from Tatarstan, including 32 projects submitted by Kazan public organizations, became winners of the first contest of socially significant projects in 2018.

Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, said at the staff meeting that the largest grants were given to projects submitted for the competition under the auspices of the city project “Good Kazan”, implemented by the City Hall in 2016. Those are the Russian cultural and charitable festival “Good Wave” and the rehabilitation project for visually impaired at the Center “Yardem”.

“The festival “Good Wave” is a joint project of the Kazan City Hall and the Academy of Popular Music of Igor Krutoy”, reminded D. Fattakhov. “The movement, created specifically for children in difficult life situation, traditionally will unite orphans, children without parental care, children from large and poor families, children with disabilities, and many others on the same stage”.

Thanks to the support of the presidential grant this year, the festival will significantly expand its geography. According to the speaker, the qualifying zonal stages of the festival will be held in 9 Russian cities. The presentation of the project on such large and significant international projects as “Children's New Wave” and ‘Junior Eurovision” has already taken place.

The gala concert of the All-Russian festival will be held in Kazan. On November 30, it will gather talented children with pop stars. D. Fattakhov told that the participation in a concert was confirmed by Philipp Kirkorov, Sergey Lazarev, and Dina Garipova.

Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, noted that the “Good Wave” is a unique project of its kind that helps children to make their dreams come true. “There is a state program for the medical support of children with disabilities, for rehabilitation. But there is no such state support for the development of creative potential, for the implementation of their dreams”, said I. Metshin. “The grant allocated for the development of the festival is a good example of how we can work together in this direction”.

Significant support in the contest was given to the project “See and hear with the heart”, presented by the National Islamic Charitable Fund “Yardem” (9.9 million rubles). The project aims at organizing complex rehabilitation of 5 groups of visually impaired or disabled people with complete loss of vision.

D. Fattakhov also noted such projects as a social shelter “Kolybel” of the protection of motherhood and childhood center “Umilenie”, the festival's debut documentary film “Mine” from the Center of Contemporary Culture “Smena”, Kazan Hospice organized by the fund of Anzhela Vavilova , which received 2.924 million rubles and others.

“The victory in the contest of our Kazan funds is, in many respects, the merit of the city project “Good Kazan”, said I. Metshin. “We conducted forums, invited both venerable funds and public organizations that already have many years of experience and fame throughout the country, and beginning funds. The most important thing is coaching, within which they can learn how to properly apply for grants and organize work”.

The Mayor marked that the victory in the competition is the result of common efforts. “We organized a systematic joint work with active, concerned citizens, public organizations, funds that today create a “Good Wave” in Kazan”, said I. Metshin. According to the head of the city, today the capital of Tatarstan is experiencing a new stage in the development of charity. Thanks to the project “Good Kazan”, city residents can get accurate information about funds they need to address in difficult situations, what they specialize in and which of them can be trusted.