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“Environmental awareness should be cultivated at home”
Alina Kochetova is 16 years old. She is a Grade 10 student at City School No. 16 in Temirtau. Currently, she is the lead environmental instructor for Grade 5 students. She teaches them about the dangers of indoor and outdoor air pollution and how to measure pollutants all while instilling an environmentally consci...
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Empowering youth to accelerate results for children
UNICEF Kazakhstan launched its first pilot volunteering programme in January 2020 in partnership with the Kazakhstan National Volunteering Network (NVN) and with fund- ing from the Kazakhstan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The pilot aimed to promote a culture of volunteering, provide young people with the opportunit...
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“Generation Unlimited”: Becoming the Architect of Your Own Future
19-year-old Nurly Kyz studied to become an English-language teacher in Nur-Sultan. However, she currently works as a designer and plans to spend the next year looking for an occupation that would be exciting and interesting for her. “The wrong profession would be difficult to change when time passes”, - she believ...
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“We have re-programmed ourselves” — a volunteer on BeGreen Kazakhstan
“I used to be afraid to talk about environmental issues, not just with schoolchildren but even with my friends, and now I can speak about it more or less freely and share my thoughts,” says 23-year-old Altynai Segizbay. She has held almost 30 online lessons explaining why the climate is changing, the environment i...
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"Heroes of Children": UNICEF photo exhibition opens in Nur Sultan
NUR-SULTAN, April 31, 2022 - Today, the Country Office of UNICEF in Kazakhstan opened a photo exhibition dedicated to the 75 th anniversary of UNICEF in the world and The Year of Children in Kazakhstan. The exposition is called “Heroes of Children” and presents portraits and stories of 30 heroes who, together with...
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“I just wanted to do good and make people happy”
In September 2021, Diana Murzagalieva, 15, received a letter from the Minister of Education and Science, Askhat Aimagambetov. The government official expressed his gratitude to the ninth-grader for her public activities and voluntary work. Ecological activism became a significant part of the latter in Diana’s life...
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Eco-Generation saves the planet
Waste sorting is a problem not only in our country but around the world. The participants of the Samgau Upshift mentoring program Arina Gridasova and Aisulu Yermekova – the girls from the Sorters team – believe so. Samgau Upshift is a mentoring program aimed at strengthening the social entrepreneurship skills of t...
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“While participating in Samgau UpShift, we've learned to turn our ideas into real projects"
The pandemic has caused adjustments in all areas of the lives of Kazakhstanis. And while the whole world was switching to online work and study, adolescents were also forced to adapt to the new reality. "Many adolescents during the pandemic had problems with social adaptation and finding themselves. A child sittin...
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How young eco-volunteers from Kazakhstan are tackling plastic pollution in their city
Ivan is 12 years old and he lives in Atbasar in northern Kazakhstan and studies in the 6th grade. Ivan's mum is an environmental expert, a profession Ivan himself would also like to pursue in the future. In third grade, Ivan has already taken part in a district competition of research papers and creative projects ...
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A year with UNICEF volunteers
In 2020, UNICEF started its first programme to engage young people as volunteers to support children and communities in Kazakhstan. As of April 2021, over 9,000 young volunteers have been mobilized by UNICEF to conduct online and face-to-face lessons to prevent bullying in schools, use less plastic, address COVID-...