Vera Kim, the head of the coordinating agency for the youth corps development project, spoke about social entrepreneurship, the year of volunteers and grants for a dream at a meeting with students of Toraighyrov University.

Durinh the three years of work, "ZhasProject" has covered 9,000 young Kazakhstan people and released 589 projects. Grants allocated for the realization of dreams and the implementation of social ideas over time have grown into a successful business.

Head of the university, Meyram Begentayev, noted that the law on volunteering, many initiatives and even the first Kazakhstan volunteers are mostly from Pavlodar, for example, Vera Kim and Dinara Aitzhanova. The Pavlodar “mafia” of volunteers continues to share their best practices and talents today.

“We are ready to scale successful projects at the university level. We have small innovative grants that allocated with minimal bureaucratic procedures. They are transparent and the university administration is not involved in this. You can receive up to 5 million tenge: 10 days to consider the application, three days to transfer funds. We do not ask for reports, the main thing is the result”, M. Begentayev said.