(KZN.RU,
April 7, Alsu Safina). The Kazan authorities allocated three premises in the streets
Kalinin, Pushkin and the Vosstaniya to the charitable fund “Day of Good Deeds”
in the framework of the project “Good Kazan”. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of the
Tatarstan’s capital, examined the premises in Kalinin Street with an area of
more than 1 thousand square meters, where the fund plans to place a centralized
charity warehouse after repairs. Points of reception of things for those in
need will be located in two other premises. All three premises were transferred
on a rent-free basis.
For the
first time, the Mayor announced the need to open charitable distribution points
in all districts for those in need during such visit, organized by the
management company “Uytny Dom”. In early March, he got acquainted with the work
of the charity warehouse “Good Hands”, acting at Street Decembrists, 113, under
the auspices of the charity fund “Day of Good Deeds”. After that, the decision
was made about partnership with this fund, which is interested in the
development of the project to create a network of charitable stores around the
city, has a well-developed mechanism for collecting and distributing things
among those in need, as well as a large team of volunteers. The Executive
Committee defined and transferred three premises to the fund for these
purposes.
The premise
under the centralized charitable warehouse is located on the ground floor of
the apartment building №3 on Kalinin Street. Rustem Khasanov, the director of
the fund “Day of Good Deeds”, told Ilsur Metshin that it is planned to place
warehouses of food, clothing, household appliances, as well as administrative
and service areas after repairs.
“I can say
with certainty that most charitable organizations not only in Kazan but also in
Russia have not had such interaction with local authorities”, said the director
of the charitable fund. “Kazan in this sense can again be called one of the
most progressive cities”. He noted that the rental costs are the largest in all
similar projects. This makes them difficult to implement. “Many of these
warehouses were closed, because they were expensive to keep”, he said. “Now we
can do much more than before”.
R. Khasanov
told the Mayor that the fund has already started designing the redevelopment of
the premises, major repairs and landscaping, which the charity organization
will implement at its own expense. “After all projects have been developed and
agreed upon, we will start work”, explained Rustem Khasanov.
During the
event, the participants discussed the creation of parking pockets in front of
the building and the improvement of the adjacent territory. Damir Fattakhov,
the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, Igor Kulyazhev, the deputy
head of the Executive Committee and the chairman of the Committee for External
Improvement, Vladimir Fomin, the head of the Department of Architecture and
Urban Development, Renat Galyautdinov, the chairman of the Committee for Land
and Property Relations, and Andrei Lobov, the head of the Vakhitovsky and
Privolzhsky districts’ administration, took part in the event.
Two more
sites of the project will be located on the street Pushkin, 24 (with a floor
space of 50.8 square m) and Street Vosstaniya, 59 (32.4 square meters). Repairs
are also necessary there. Rustem Khasanov said that the points of reception of
things will be organized there. “Things will be collected in these points, will
be brought to a centralized warehouse several times a week, where they will be
sorted and given out to those in need”, he explained the logistics.
“We will
try to ensure that the centralized warehouse and points of acceptance of things
are opened as quickly as possible”, said Rustem Khasanov. According to him, for
the time that the charitable warehouse “Good Hands” is working, there was not a
day that the needy did not come to them. In just 4 years, more than 10 thousand
people have used the services of a charitable warehouse.
As it
turned out, those who are ready to help in the implementation of the
centralized charity warehouse project have already appeared. One of the Kazan
entrepreneurs, who found out about his creation, handed over 500 boxes of new
clothes to the fund.