Since 2020, to assist children left without parental care, the Halyk Charity Fund has been supporting the SOS Children’s Villages Kazakhstan. The total assistance provided by the Fund for the maintenance of the villages, the Asar Crisis Center, and statutory activities during this period amounted to 388.9 million tenge. This included the purchase of two four-room apartments each in Almaty, Karaganda, and Astana to create group Youth Homes modeled on family-type living.

In 2020, the Halyk Charity Foundation continued the tradition of supporting the SOS Children’s Villages of Kazakhstan Foundation to provide assistance and support to children without parental care.

In accordance with the memorandum of cooperation between the State Institution “Orphanage No. 1 of Almaty,” the Corporate Fund “SOS Children’s Villages Kazakhstan,” the Public Fund “Nursultan Nazarbayev Education Fund,” and the Halyk Charity Fund, in 2019 the Halyk Charity Fund, together with JSC “Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan,” purchased and donated two four-room apartments to the social organization “SOS Children’s Villages Kazakhstan” in Almaty. The total area of the apartments exceeds 330 square meters, with a total value of over 120 million tenge. The apartments underwent major renovations at no cost and were fully furnished with necessary furniture, appliances, and food supplies by the time families moved in.

In 2020, the Halyk Charity Foundation furnished and equipped four family children’s homes in the SOS Children’s Village, and also furnished and equipped two integrated apartments for the village graduates.

In addition, the Foundation restored cabinet furniture in 10 family homes in the SOS Children’s Village. The total amount of charitable assistance amounted to 23.9 million tenge.

In 2021, in order to provide children left without parental care with comprehensive assistance, support and promotion of healthy development and subsequent socialization into society, the Halyk Charitable Foundation provided the SOS Children’s Villages of Kazakhstan Foundation with another aid in the amount of 11.7 million tenge.

In the future, together with the Nursultan Nazarbayev Education Foundation, large-scale support is planned for state children’s villages, namely in:

• centralized financing, financing upper office;
• implementation of international experience and methodologies to improve the quality of care and improve the standard of living of children left without adult care.