Charity
In 2025, the Fund continued to implement charitable initiatives aimed at addressing socially significant issues. We worked together with non-profit organisations, government bodies and partners to ensure that support reached those who needed it most.
Activities in this area are carried out in accordance with the Fund's Philanthropy Policy and Philanthropy Programme.
We firmly believe that businesses have a responsibility to society, which they fulfil through concrete actions. That is why we systematically carry out charitable projects in five key areas: healthcare, inclusion, sport, culture and education.
Charity
Of which
Allocations to the Kazakhstan Khalkyna Public Foundation
Samruk Úmiti pilot project
Launched for the first time in 2025
"Samruk Úmiti" – career guidance for residents of children's homes
Pavlodar Region and East Kazakhstan Region
Developing inclusion
Inclusive rehabilitation centres
Early-intervention centres in 2025
Almaty
Kyzylorda
Centres for children with autism in 2025
Turkestan
Karaganda
Aktau
Effect
Since the launch of the rehabilitation-centre project, more than 21,000 children have received support, around 6,000 have started to walk and 8,000 have said their first words.
Supporting a child with special needs along their entire journey – from first steps to adult life: early intervention at 0–3 years, core rehabilitation at 3–18 years, profile-based pathways (musculoskeletal, autism) or the mixed-format "Ainala" model in district centres. Each stage has its own infrastructure and specialists, but together they form a single continuous support system.
New format in 2025
"Ainala" – mixed-format rehabilitation centres for children aged 3–18 in district centres and villages where major rehabilitation had not previously reached. Five centres opened in the Turkestan, Aktobe, Mangystau and East Kazakhstan Regions – each capable of receiving up to 800 children per year.
Inclusive education
Effect
Children with special needs study in their own school near home. Classrooms supported by crowdfunding – funds raised by 3,000 participants of the Charity Samruk Marathon.
Sports infrastructure and inclusive sport
- Sports infrastructure and camps for children with special needs – in remote villages and small towns.
- Sports complexes in 2025 - village of Kazhymukan (Akmola Region), village of Daulet (Mangystau Region) and village of Zhanaomir (West Kazakhstan Region).
- Inclusive sections in 22 towns and villages - 1,000+ children attend free of charge.
- "Sheksiz Mumkyndikter" camp - 250 children with cerebral palsy, delayed mental and speech development, autism, visual impairments, and their parents, across 5 seasons.
- Children's Paralympic Games, final - 400 athletes, 20 regions.
Effect
Residents of remote villages have received modern sports facilities. An off-site inclusive sports camp has been launched with the participation of parents – adaptive sport, robotics, psychological sessions.
Healthcare
"Salamatty Qazaqstan" project
An annual journey through remote stations of Kazakhstan – 36 specialists on board: doctors, mediators, lawyers. Services are free of charge and do not require Compulsory Social Health Insurance (CSHI).
Effect
For some villages along the route, the medical train is the only regular medical service: residents receive diagnostics and consultations without travelling to a city.
Support for the elderly – active longevity
Free spaces combining medical care, psychological support and recreation in one place – no appointment, no payment.
Services: medical care, psychology, legal consultations, gym, creative studios, cinema room, library.
Taraz
Shymkent
Effect
A new direction in 2025. For the first time in the regions, integrated spaces for the elderly have appeared, combining health, support and leisure within walking distance.
AI in social projects
In 2025, AI is already being used in educational institutions to monitor the learning process and as an assistant for processing applications under social programmes.
AI Mektep – Smart School
Atyrau Region
A video-analytics and AI system tracks attendance, discipline, student engagement and parameters of the learning process. Centralised video feeds to operational management and methodology centres enable administrators to take decisions.
AI assistant for charity applications
The Fund delivers dozens of philanthropic projects every year. Previously, applying required a personal visit and the support of a specialist. The AI assistant has removed this barrier: an applicant from anywhere in Kazakhstan can now receive a consultation and submit a request remotely, at any time of day.
Culture and education
New and renovated cultural facilities in the regions – creative hubs, libraries, museums
- Creative hubs in 2025 – Uralsk ("OzgeEpic Oral")
- Historical and Cultural Centre, Kyzylorda – 12 halls
- Abay Inclusive Library, Semey – 15,000+ visitors per year
- Renovation of A. Kasteyev National Museum halls, Almaty – exhibition refresh
"Tugan Yelge Sayakhat" project (9th season)
- An educational train camp for children aged 12–16
- 400 participants in two streams: school children with an engineering mindset from various regions and children of Group employees from remote districts
- Route - 5 cities (Astana, Ekibastuz, Balkhash, Turkestan, Almaty) with visits to Group facilities
Effect
The regions have received modern cultural infrastructure. The Tugan Yelge Sayakhat camp reached children from remote districts and helped build interest in engineering professions.
As well as charitable projects, we do good deeds ourselves. Corporate volunteering within the group is driven by the Youth Council, whose members organise and actively participate in social initiatives.
In 2025, employees fulfilled the New Year wishes of 200 children from boarding schools and the Astana oncology centre, more than 70 employees took part in donor drives, and the Youth Council put together and delivered food packages for 100 families in the capital, including large families, single-parent families and families raising children with disabilities.
Zhanaozen remains one of the priority regions for our social activities: more than 50 projects have been delivered there over the past ten years. In 2025, a Palace of Schoolchildren opened in the city, construction began on the central city library, and the delivery of housing and utility-network modernisation programmes continued.
We also developed social infrastructure in other regions. Under the "Abaiğa qūrmet" initiative we laid the foundation for a new fitness and wellness complex in Semey and are preparing to build several more social and cultural facilities in the city’s new residential district, with participation of all regions of Kazakhstan.
At the same time, we are participating in the implementation of the national “Comfortable School” project, which aims to build modern educational facilities, eliminate the three-shift school system and create new school places. The focus of this work is on ensuring equal access to high-quality social infrastructure between large cities and rural areas.
