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Volunteers representing NCVC's Amur Office arranged a festive party for retirees in celebration of spring's first holiday.

3 march 2025

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These included the Amur Gas Chemical Complex, Amur Institute of Railway Transport, Amur branch of Gazpromtrans, Vizit Youth Leisure Center, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), the Amur Oblast's Office of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, Svobodny’s Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Line Management Department in charge of operating Main Gas Pipelines, and Zeya Terem Management Company. The corporate volunteers drove the participants to and from the venue and helped out during the master class. </p> <p> <b>Elena Snezhko, head of SIBUR's <i>Formula for Good Deeds</i> social investment program, chairperson of the NCVC's Amur Office:</b><br> <i>“In the run-up to the Women's Day celebrations, we couldn't leave the lovely elderly women from Svobodny's </i>Lada<i> Comprehensive Social Services Center without attention and care. Encounters like today's encourage the elderly to feel valued members of society and not neglected. It is not just a good way to provide support, but also an opportunity to express gratitude, which, as I am sure, resonates </i><i>with</i><i> each and every participant present here."</i> </p> <p> The creative master class held at the Co-working Center on the occasion of International Women's Day started with a short briefing. <b>Margarita Khristolyubova</b>, an instructor with the <a href="http://glazuria.ru/"><span style="color: #3c9091;">Glazuriya</span></a> confectionery school, introduced her students to the rules of handling various types of materials and demonstrated basic decorating techniques. Switching from theory to practice, each participant was issued an individual kit for crafting a tasty souvenir including a confectioner's bag, icing sugar, and, of course, gingerbread cookies. </p> <p> Under the guidance of experienced artisans and with the help of corporate volunteers, the ladies then embarked on creating outlines of their future designs. Once the icing had set, the trainees started filling in the outlines. Eventually, every gingerbread cookie design was complemented with edible decorations such as edible beads and flowers. </p> <p> The celebration of the 8th of March holiday concluded with the ladies' engaging in cordial conversations, listening to their favorite songs performed by the corporate volunteers, and by having a group photo taken for posterity. Each guest took back with her not only the hand-decorated gingerbread cookies they had made but also a lot of happy and pleasant emotions from being involved in creative work while surrounded by caring people. </p> <p> </p> <p> <b>Nina, 74:</b> <br> <i>“I'd like to thank our corporate volunteers very much for th</i><i>is</i><i> master class! Everything went very well, was well organized. Time flew by quickly and beautifully: the young folks showed us so much attention and care! Thank you!”</i> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <b>Natalya, 78:</b> <br> <i>“I liked today's master class on decorating gingerbread cookies, I had never been involved in anything like this before. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to do it, but the volunteer</i><i>s</i><i> helped me and they were very attentive. Thank you everyone for such a wonderful day”.</i> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <b>Evgenia, 88:</b> <br> <i>“The volunteers arranged a lovely and restful weekend for us today. We all enjoyed it immensely! I wish you all the best of health, prosperity, success in your lives and all the best!"</i><i>.</i> </p> <p> <b>Irina Bakhmanova, an expert with the Amur GCC:</b><br> <i>“I was very impressed with the event that took place. I received so much energy that was shared with me! Thanks to taking part in the class, I found myself transported to a world of happiness, where only good and positive things are happening, where everyone is friendly and </i><i>at</i><i>tuned to something new and positive. And everyone here seemed to be so full of energy: you give others your energy, but you get even more of it in return.”</i> </p> <p> <b>Background</b><b><br> </b> </p> <p> <i><span style="background: white;">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 in order to combine and align the efforts of companies, volunteering centers and non-profit organizations for the purpose of advancing the best volunteering practices in the region.</span></i> </p> <p> <i><span style="background: white;">Geographically, the office is made up of representatives of 27 companies and volunteering centers from Blagoveshchensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky, and other districts of Amur Oblast, including Amur Gas Chemical Complex, NIPIGAZ, Otkritiye Bank, Gazprombank, Gazpromtrans, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, Svobodny’s Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Line Management Department in charge of operating Main Gas Pipelines, MTS, Amur Oblast’s Regional Branch of the Social Fund of Russia, Russian Post, Amur Oblast’s Rosreyestr Office, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), Sberbank, Philip Morris Sales &amp; Marketing, Vostochny Space Center, as well as experts from local volunteering and resource centers, and charitable foundations.</span></i> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <i><span style="background: white;">Further information about the Council's activities is available on its website at </span></i><a href="https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/"><i>https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/</i></a><i>. </i> </p> [TYPE] => HTML ) [DESCRIPTION] => [~VALUE] => Array ( [TEXT] =>

Spring's first day turned out to be very special for the 30 elderly wards of Svobodny's Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center as they got to take part in a master class on decorating gingerbread cookies, put on by volunteers from the Amur Office of the National Corporate Volunteering Council (NCVC) with the support of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program.

Activists representing eight of the organizations affiliated with the Amur Office of the NCVC took part in the celebratory activity. These included the Amur Gas Chemical Complex, Amur Institute of Railway Transport, Amur branch of Gazpromtrans, Vizit Youth Leisure Center, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), the Amur Oblast's Office of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, Svobodny’s Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Line Management Department in charge of operating Main Gas Pipelines, and Zeya Terem Management Company. The corporate volunteers drove the participants to and from the venue and helped out during the master class.

Elena Snezhko, head of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, chairperson of the NCVC's Amur Office:
“In the run-up to the Women's Day celebrations, we couldn't leave the lovely elderly women from Svobodny's Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center without attention and care. Encounters like today's encourage the elderly to feel valued members of society and not neglected. It is not just a good way to provide support, but also an opportunity to express gratitude, which, as I am sure, resonates with each and every participant present here."

The creative master class held at the Co-working Center on the occasion of International Women's Day started with a short briefing. Margarita Khristolyubova, an instructor with the Glazuriya confectionery school, introduced her students to the rules of handling various types of materials and demonstrated basic decorating techniques. Switching from theory to practice, each participant was issued an individual kit for crafting a tasty souvenir including a confectioner's bag, icing sugar, and, of course, gingerbread cookies.

Under the guidance of experienced artisans and with the help of corporate volunteers, the ladies then embarked on creating outlines of their future designs. Once the icing had set, the trainees started filling in the outlines. Eventually, every gingerbread cookie design was complemented with edible decorations such as edible beads and flowers.

The celebration of the 8th of March holiday concluded with the ladies' engaging in cordial conversations, listening to their favorite songs performed by the corporate volunteers, and by having a group photo taken for posterity. Each guest took back with her not only the hand-decorated gingerbread cookies they had made but also a lot of happy and pleasant emotions from being involved in creative work while surrounded by caring people.

Nina, 74:
“I'd like to thank our corporate volunteers very much for this master class! Everything went very well, was well organized. Time flew by quickly and beautifully: the young folks showed us so much attention and care! Thank you!”

Natalya, 78:
“I liked today's master class on decorating gingerbread cookies, I had never been involved in anything like this before. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to do it, but the volunteers helped me and they were very attentive. Thank you everyone for such a wonderful day”.

Evgenia, 88:
“The volunteers arranged a lovely and restful weekend for us today. We all enjoyed it immensely! I wish you all the best of health, prosperity, success in your lives and all the best!".

Irina Bakhmanova, an expert with the Amur GCC:
“I was very impressed with the event that took place. I received so much energy that was shared with me! Thanks to taking part in the class, I found myself transported to a world of happiness, where only good and positive things are happening, where everyone is friendly and attuned to something new and positive. And everyone here seemed to be so full of energy: you give others your energy, but you get even more of it in return.”

Background

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 in order to combine and align the efforts of companies, volunteering centers and non-profit organizations for the purpose of advancing the best volunteering practices in the region.

Geographically, the office is made up of representatives of 27 companies and volunteering centers from Blagoveshchensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky, and other districts of Amur Oblast, including Amur Gas Chemical Complex, NIPIGAZ, Otkritiye Bank, Gazprombank, Gazpromtrans, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, Svobodny’s Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Line Management Department in charge of operating Main Gas Pipelines, MTS, Amur Oblast’s Regional Branch of the Social Fund of Russia, Russian Post, Amur Oblast’s Rosreyestr Office, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), Sberbank, Philip Morris Sales & Marketing, Vostochny Space Center, as well as experts from local volunteering and resource centers, and charitable foundations.

Further information about the Council's activities is available on its website at https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.

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Spring's first day turned out to be very special for the 30 elderly wards of Svobodny's Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center as they got to take part in a master class on decorating gingerbread cookies, put on by volunteers from the Amur Office of the National Corporate Volunteering Council (NCVC) with the support of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program.

Activists representing eight of the organizations affiliated with the Amur Office of the NCVC took part in the celebratory activity. These included the Amur Gas Chemical Complex, Amur Institute of Railway Transport, Amur branch of Gazpromtrans, Vizit Youth Leisure Center, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), the Amur Oblast's Office of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, Svobodny’s Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Line Management Department in charge of operating Main Gas Pipelines, and Zeya Terem Management Company. The corporate volunteers drove the participants to and from the venue and helped out during the master class.

Elena Snezhko, head of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, chairperson of the NCVC's Amur Office:
“In the run-up to the Women's Day celebrations, we couldn't leave the lovely elderly women from Svobodny's Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center without attention and care. Encounters like today's encourage the elderly to feel valued members of society and not neglected. It is not just a good way to provide support, but also an opportunity to express gratitude, which, as I am sure, resonates with each and every participant present here."

The creative master class held at the Co-working Center on the occasion of International Women's Day started with a short briefing. Margarita Khristolyubova, an instructor with the Glazuriya confectionery school, introduced her students to the rules of handling various types of materials and demonstrated basic decorating techniques. Switching from theory to practice, each participant was issued an individual kit for crafting a tasty souvenir including a confectioner's bag, icing sugar, and, of course, gingerbread cookies.

Under the guidance of experienced artisans and with the help of corporate volunteers, the ladies then embarked on creating outlines of their future designs. Once the icing had set, the trainees started filling in the outlines. Eventually, every gingerbread cookie design was complemented with edible decorations such as edible beads and flowers.

The celebration of the 8th of March holiday concluded with the ladies' engaging in cordial conversations, listening to their favorite songs performed by the corporate volunteers, and by having a group photo taken for posterity. Each guest took back with her not only the hand-decorated gingerbread cookies they had made but also a lot of happy and pleasant emotions from being involved in creative work while surrounded by caring people.

Nina, 74:
“I'd like to thank our corporate volunteers very much for this master class! Everything went very well, was well organized. Time flew by quickly and beautifully: the young folks showed us so much attention and care! Thank you!”

Natalya, 78:
“I liked today's master class on decorating gingerbread cookies, I had never been involved in anything like this before. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to do it, but the volunteers helped me and they were very attentive. Thank you everyone for such a wonderful day”.

Evgenia, 88:
“The volunteers arranged a lovely and restful weekend for us today. We all enjoyed it immensely! I wish you all the best of health, prosperity, success in your lives and all the best!".

Irina Bakhmanova, an expert with the Amur GCC:
“I was very impressed with the event that took place. I received so much energy that was shared with me! Thanks to taking part in the class, I found myself transported to a world of happiness, where only good and positive things are happening, where everyone is friendly and attuned to something new and positive. And everyone here seemed to be so full of energy: you give others your energy, but you get even more of it in return.”

Background

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 in order to combine and align the efforts of companies, volunteering centers and non-profit organizations for the purpose of advancing the best volunteering practices in the region.

Geographically, the office is made up of representatives of 27 companies and volunteering centers from Blagoveshchensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky, and other districts of Amur Oblast, including Amur Gas Chemical Complex, NIPIGAZ, Otkritiye Bank, Gazprombank, Gazpromtrans, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, Svobodny’s Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Line Management Department in charge of operating Main Gas Pipelines, MTS, Amur Oblast’s Regional Branch of the Social Fund of Russia, Russian Post, Amur Oblast’s Rosreyestr Office, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), Sberbank, Philip Morris Sales & Marketing, Vostochny Space Center, as well as experts from local volunteering and resource centers, and charitable foundations.

Further information about the Council's activities is available on its website at https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.

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Spring's first day turned out to be very special for the 30 elderly wards of Svobodny's Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center as they got to take part in a master class on decorating gingerbread cookies, put on by volunteers from the Amur Office of the National Corporate Volunteering Council (NCVC) with the support of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program.

Activists representing eight of the organizations affiliated with the Amur Office of the NCVC took part in the celebratory activity. These included the Amur Gas Chemical Complex, Amur Institute of Railway Transport, Amur branch of Gazpromtrans, Vizit Youth Leisure Center, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), the Amur Oblast's Office of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, Svobodny’s Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Line Management Department in charge of operating Main Gas Pipelines, and Zeya Terem Management Company. The corporate volunteers drove the participants to and from the venue and helped out during the master class.

Elena Snezhko, head of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, chairperson of the NCVC's Amur Office:
“In the run-up to the Women's Day celebrations, we couldn't leave the lovely elderly women from Svobodny's Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center without attention and care. Encounters like today's encourage the elderly to feel valued members of society and not neglected. It is not just a good way to provide support, but also an opportunity to express gratitude, which, as I am sure, resonates with each and every participant present here."

The creative master class held at the Co-working Center on the occasion of International Women's Day started with a short briefing. Margarita Khristolyubova, an instructor with the Glazuriya confectionery school, introduced her students to the rules of handling various types of materials and demonstrated basic decorating techniques. Switching from theory to practice, each participant was issued an individual kit for crafting a tasty souvenir including a confectioner's bag, icing sugar, and, of course, gingerbread cookies.

Under the guidance of experienced artisans and with the help of corporate volunteers, the ladies then embarked on creating outlines of their future designs. Once the icing had set, the trainees started filling in the outlines. Eventually, every gingerbread cookie design was complemented with edible decorations such as edible beads and flowers.

The celebration of the 8th of March holiday concluded with the ladies' engaging in cordial conversations, listening to their favorite songs performed by the corporate volunteers, and by having a group photo taken for posterity. Each guest took back with her not only the hand-decorated gingerbread cookies they had made but also a lot of happy and pleasant emotions from being involved in creative work while surrounded by caring people.

Nina, 74:
“I'd like to thank our corporate volunteers very much for this master class! Everything went very well, was well organized. Time flew by quickly and beautifully: the young folks showed us so much attention and care! Thank you!”

Natalya, 78:
“I liked today's master class on decorating gingerbread cookies, I had never been involved in anything like this before. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to do it, but the volunteers helped me and they were very attentive. Thank you everyone for such a wonderful day”.

Evgenia, 88:
“The volunteers arranged a lovely and restful weekend for us today. We all enjoyed it immensely! I wish you all the best of health, prosperity, success in your lives and all the best!".

Irina Bakhmanova, an expert with the Amur GCC:
“I was very impressed with the event that took place. I received so much energy that was shared with me! Thanks to taking part in the class, I found myself transported to a world of happiness, where only good and positive things are happening, where everyone is friendly and attuned to something new and positive. And everyone here seemed to be so full of energy: you give others your energy, but you get even more of it in return.”

Background

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 in order to combine and align the efforts of companies, volunteering centers and non-profit organizations for the purpose of advancing the best volunteering practices in the region.

Geographically, the office is made up of representatives of 27 companies and volunteering centers from Blagoveshchensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky, and other districts of Amur Oblast, including Amur Gas Chemical Complex, NIPIGAZ, Otkritiye Bank, Gazprombank, Gazpromtrans, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, Svobodny’s Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Line Management Department in charge of operating Main Gas Pipelines, MTS, Amur Oblast’s Regional Branch of the Social Fund of Russia, Russian Post, Amur Oblast’s Rosreyestr Office, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), Sberbank, Philip Morris Sales & Marketing, Vostochny Space Center, as well as experts from local volunteering and resource centers, and charitable foundations.

Further information about the Council's activities is available on its website at https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.