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In 2022, Amur Oblast’s National Corporate Volunteering Council will continue to promote volunteering

27 december 2021

On the New Year' eve, members of the regional chapter of the National Corporate Volunteering Council (NCVC) took stock of the results of their first year of work and rewarded more than 20 active volunteers for their personal contribution to the cause of promoting volunteering in Amur Oblast. The chapter had been founded at the initiative of SIBUR and currently numbers 19 companies, volunteering centers, and non-profit organizations.

In 2021, my team and I did large-scale online polling of Amur Oblast’s residents and welfare institutions involved in helping families in crisis to identify the priority focus areas for our corporate volunteering actititiesactivities. Based on the responses we got, we decided that our key focus would need to be on helping children, families and the elderly in crisis, Elena Snezhko, Chief Expert and Head of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, commented.

On Children's Day, the Council' s members joined the nationwide campaign titled #MyBusinessHelps in order to collect gifts for gravely ill children. Volunteers arranged festive parties for more than 300 young patients, children in crisis, and large families. In December, we launched the #GenerousAmur campaign to provide targeted assistance to the charges of the region's welfare institutions. The campaign is being piloted in Belogorsk, Blagoveshchensk, and Svobodny.

To help develop volunteering skills and competencies, the Council initiated an educational program involving federal-level experts. The program's first event was an online presentation of volunteering programs of the "Volunteers for Orphans" and "Old Age is a Joy" foundations. The webinar was attended by residents of 10 of Amur Oblast’s districts, including those living in rural areas where there are currently no large teams of volunteers.

The 10th Moscow International Forum "Corporate Volunteering: Business and Society" featured the best practices of volunteering from Amur Oblast. Alexander Yekzhanov, Head of Blagoveshchensk’s Youth Affairs Department and Head of the Progress & I Resource Center for the Support and Development of Volunteering, spoke at the forum on the Council's behalf.

I want to emphasize the Council's principal achievement - it's that our volunteer organizations and businesses who promote the idea of corporate social responsibility no longer regard each other as competitors and prefer to cooperate instead. This is why I hope that we will continue to support each other in earnest and do good together, Ekaterina Snezhko, Deputy Chief of Staff of Amur Oblast’s Governor and Amur Oblast’s Government, noted in her welcoming remarks.

The forum included a festive awards ceremony for the volunteers who were chosen by the Council as the most active contributors to the good cause of volunteering. The following individuals were honored for their personal contributions to the development of the volunteering movement in Amur Oblast::

  • Natalya Andreeva, Silver Volunteer’s Squad "Vanguard 28”;
  • Galina Vasilyeva, Amur Oblast’s Regional Center of "Silver" Volunteering "Young at Heart";
  • Anna Voronyak and Alexei Gurenko, Operational Locomotive Depot Belogorsk TChE 11;
  • Oksana Doinikova and Anastasia Shcherban, Amur Non-Profit Movement "Volunteers of Culture”;
  • Olga Yelantseva, Gazprom pererabotka Blagoveshchensk LLC;
  • Olga Efremova, Sberbank PJSC;
  • Radion Kolomoyets and Artavazd Ounanian, "Mashina" sports club;
  • Elena and Elizaveta Kuzmenko, JSC NIPIGAZ;
  • Irina Lazareva, Yevgeniya Manchak, and Oksana Sova, Autonomous Non-Profit Education Center "Open World;
  • Elena Seyitmedova and Nina Timofeeva, Local non-profit public support organization "Tsiolkovsky – City of the Future!”
  • Nikita Khoroshaylov, Non-Profit "Visit" Youth Leisure Center. "Visit".

The organizers of the event expressed their special appreciation to Ekaterina Snezhko, Deputy Chief of Staff of Amur Oblast’s Governor and Government, Galina Tkachenko, Chair of Svobodny’s "Visit" Youth Leisure Center, and Grigory Chirey, electric locomotive driver at "Operational Locomotive Depot Belogorsk TChE 11" for their active involvement in the Council’s workactivities.

Thanks to the support of the NCVС’s regional office, 2022 will see the continuation of educational programs for volunteers helping families in crisis and the elderly. Joint volunteering campaigns will also be carried out. Some of the new areas that the Council plans to focus on in the new year include training sessions in social design for volunteers and working with the media to provide extensive coverage of the best volunteering practices.

I am very pleased that the discussion of the Council's activities focusing on the development and promotion of volunteering in the coming year became the subject of such a lively debate. Thanks to the involvement and caring attitude of our fellow activists from different cities of the region, we have already put together a short-term and a long-term work plan. All these activities are designed to benefit the entire region and its residents, Gleb Fedotov, Chairman of Amur Oblast’s chapter of NCVC, Head of Government Relations and Socio-Economic Projects’ implementation Implementation at pPractice at Amur Gas and Chemical Combine LLC, commented.

Background information:

The Amur Office of the National Corporate Volunteering Council (NCVC) was established in 2021 with the participation of SIBUR and the Government of Amur Oblast for the purpose of aligning joint efforts of companies, volunteering centers and non-profit organization in disseminating the best volunteering practices in the region.

The Council’s is comprised of representatives of companies and volunteering organizations from Blagoveschensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky, and other areas of Amur Oblast. Among its participants are: SIBUR, Otkritiye Bank, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, MTS, Sberbank, Belogorsk Operational Locomotive Depot (Russian Railways), Philip Morris Sales and Marketing, TsENKI (Roscosmos), and as well as experts from volunteering and resource centers and charitable foundations.The key areas where assistance is provided include support to and mentoring of families in distress and the elderly.

 

Further details about the Council are available at https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.established in 2021 with the participation of SIBUR and the Government of Amur Oblast for the purpose of aligning joint efforts of companies, volunteering centers and non-profit organization in disseminating the best volunteering practices in the region.

The Council’s is comprised of representatives of companies and volunteering organizations from Blagoveschensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky, and other areas of Amur Oblast. The key areas where assistance is provided include support to and mentoring of families in distress and the elderly.

Further details about the Council are available at
https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.The geography includes representatives of companies and volunteer centers from Blagoveshchensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky and other districts of the Amur Region. Among the participants: SIBUR, Otkritie Bank, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, MTS, Sberbank, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (Russian Railways). (Russian Railways), Philip Morris Sales and Marketing, CENKI (Roscosmos), and experts from volunteer and resource centers and charitable foundations.

Learn more about the Council's activities at https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.