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Students from Moscow's colleges have prepared a series of charity events for International Volunteer Day, celebrated on December 5. They will hold over 40 events, ranging from educational lectures to helping homeless animals, the press service reported. Department of Education and Science of the City of Moscow.
"Today, many colleges in the capital have volunteer centers and clubs. The students organize charity fundraisers, conduct environmental events, and participate in major city-wide and national campaigns. Key projects include participation in the International Volunteer Corps for the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, assistance in the cleanup of the fuel oil spill in the Krasnodar Territory, and support for large-scale sporting competitions," the department's press service noted.
For example, the Police College, together with the Solidarity for Life Foundation, will donate educational games and art kits to children in Russia's new regions and to rehabilitation centers in Donbas. College of the Sphere of Services No. 10 will hold creative gingerbread-painting workshops for residents of the Savelovsky Palliative Care Center. And students from Technological College No. 21 will organize a birdhouse-painting workshop for children with disabilities from the Blago School.
"These moments evoke special feelings: you help, offer guidance, and then watch as true beauty is born in the children's hands. It teaches you to be more attentive, gentle, and responsive. When you see the results of your efforts, you want to do even more. Kindness is returned—and this inspires you to keep going," said Ksenia Kasyukhina, a first-year student at Technological College No. 21.
Students from the K.D. Ushinsky Institute of Secondary Vocational Education at Moscow City Pedagogical University will visit senior citizen care facilities. They will interact with senior citizens and present them with handmade cards and letters containing warm wishes. They will also take part in a thematic online quiz to test their knowledge of the history of the volunteer movement, its principles, and key events.
Students from Medical College No. 2 collected dozens of kilograms of dry and wet food for the Murkosha cat shelter and visited the Sborka eco-center, where they learned about waste sorting. They also participated in a brooch-making workshop for the Blago Tvori (Good Work) fair.
For Ekaterina Belyusenko, a fourth-year student at Medical College No. 2, volunteering isn't about grandiose achievements, it's about people. The smiles and gratitude in the eyes of those you've helped give you the understanding: this is what's truly important. This activity changes the world around you: when one person sees another helping selflessly, a chain reaction occurs.
Several educational institutions will join the blood drives. For example, the I.A. Likhachev Moscow Technological College will host a blood drive for patients in the children's department of the Moscow Regional Oncology Center. Medical College No. 7 will also participate in the drive, organizing blood drives at the V.M. Buyanov City Clinical Hospital.
Patriotic events will also be organized in honor of Volunteer Day. For example, students from the Moscow College of Management, Hotel Business, and Information Technology "Tsaritsyno" honored the memory of Hero of the Soviet Union Pavel Belov at the Novodevichy Cemetery. And as part of the memorial and patronage campaign "On the Fiery Borders of Moscow," students from the Law College will hold a flower-laying ceremony at the monument to the "Anti-Aircraft Warriors" (women of the 155th People's Militia Division) in the Orekhovo-Borisovo Severnoye district.
On December 5th, the holiday itself, 11 colleges will host meetings with representatives of the city's leading charitable foundations. Experts will share their experiences, conduct practical sessions, and discuss their main areas of activity. College of Automation and Information Technology No. 20 will also host a quest across five thematic stations representing various areas of volunteer work. The Moscow College of Management, Hotel Business, and Information Technology "Tsaritsyno" will host an interactive seminar, during which experienced volunteers will discuss their work.
The P.A. Ovchinnikov Polytechnic College, the V. Talalikhin Moscow Educational Complex, the Tsaritsyno Moscow College of Management, Hotel Business, and Information Technology, Financial College No. 35, Medical College No. 2, the Carl Fabergé College of Decorative and Applied Arts, the Moscow Educational Complex "Zapad," and Polytechnic College No. 50 named after twice Hero of Socialist Labor N.A. Zlobin will recognize the best volunteers with letters of gratitude and commemorative souvenirs.
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