We are a branch office of the international charity, Crossroads Foundation.
Marat's answer
Crossroads ships to a rehabilitation centre in
Northern Kazakhstan which is seeing lives decimated by addiction transformed
What is a life worth? How do we put a value on it? Are lives like cars or homes? Does it depend on their condition? If they’re well-kept, good looking, do we value that life more than another?
In the north of Kazakhstan, where a lethal blend of industrial dislocation, unemployment, depression, cheap alcohol and narcotics, have ravaged thousands and thousands of lives, this question is being answered, daily.
Marat’s answer is his story. Marat grew up in a town not far from Karaganda. Karaganda is home to the massive Karaganda Steel Works. It is also not far from the gulag in which Solzhenitsyn chose to set his novella, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
"A forty foot container to Tajikistan puts invaluable tools in the hands of those caring for victims of abuse..."
Last year a charity in Tajikistan contacted us asking for help. We shipped a forty foot container of goods to the centre in Dushanbe.
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A big help in anyone's language
Years before the global financial crisis, there was one in southern Kyrgyzstan. In an area of over 20% unemployment and deeply underrated salaries, one organisation that Crossroads shipped to recently, is turning those figures around... read more
Crossroads Annual Report
This report is a snap shot of the past year’s activities. It is about 12 months of trucks, boxes, sweat and paper work. But ultimately it is about people: men with tuberculosis, children with cerebral palsy, grandmothers immobilised by disabilities. These people, these disadvantaged, have each had their lives radically impacted by the different organisations Crossroads supports. In this report you will hear some of these stories and, I hope, hear some of their gratitude.
Please click here to download the 2009 annual report.
