The team of the Association of Volunteers «Only by Heart» of the Almazov Centre took the 1st place in the XII annual Contest of Socially Significant Students’ Projects with international participation «My Initiative in Education».
The contest organized as part of the program for student associations development «Initiative — Action – Success» took place on May 16 -19 at the Herzen State Pedagogical University. Not only Russian, but also foreign university students took part in the competition. The purpose of the project is to build the environment for students’ creative activity, self-realization, and to stimulate initiative in solving socially significant problems in educational organization, a city or a country.
For 3 days, the participants got acquainted with each other, communicated, and exchanged ideas and experience. After the creative part of the competition, each team had to present the project in one of 5 nominations: «Happy Family Together», «Blue Bird», «Cooperation of Generations», «Initiatives Spectrum» and «Topic of the Day». The Volunteers Association of the Almazov Centre «Only by Heart» presented the project with the same title in the nomination «Happy Family Together» taking the 1st place.
The goal of the project is to create a volunteer team of 100 students and personnel of the Centre to support children undergoing long-term treatment in our clinic. The volunteer team is supposed to cooperate with the children’s departments of the Almazov Centre, hold charity events and contests.
We send our sincere congratulations to them team for their victory! We wish them further fruitful realization of the project, new successes and achievements!