Freshman of the Karaganda State Industrial University Aigerim Chakenova became a participant of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students, which was recently held on the territory of the Olympic Park in Sochi.
On the Black Sea coast, about thirty thousand representatives of 188 countries gathered to talk and discuss important issues for them. Aigerim Chakenov, a student of the group “Computer Science and Software” and six other Tektourians joined the Kazakhstan delegation consisting of 245 people. The organizer of the festival was the World Federation of Democratic Youth.

A student of KGIU pays attention not only to studies, but also to volunteer activities and participation in events held in conjunction with the Temirtau Youth Club.

“The fundamental factor of educational work at the university is the development of leadership qualities among our students,” says the rector of the State Research Institute of Computing Science, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Bahyt Zhautikov. – In this direction, the Committee on Youth Affairs is doing a great job, organizing various seminars and trainings devoted to this topic. Already for three years, the most active students are engaged in the republican schools of the leader’s asset and take part in the seminar-training “Ideas that change the world”, aimed at fostering leadership qualities. We hold events dedicated to the formation of a new model of consciousness and thinking of young people through the implementation of the Ruhani Jangyrou program. Much attention is paid to the development of civil responsibility, creativity, social initiatives.

Now Aigerim Chakenova is the head of the social project of the Temirtau youth club “My sky is my mother”, whose goal is to distract from the everyday life of mothers of children with disabilities, as well as large and low-income mothers and give them joy. For 40 women, the services of a manicurist, make-up artist and stylist are provided free of charge, various trainings, evenings and holidays are held, and art therapy and other activities for their children.

The application for participation in the festival Aigerim was filed six months ago. The organizers approved her candidacy. All expenses, except for the payment of tickets to Moscow, where there was a transfer, and back, the inviting party took over.

At the festival in Sochi, 12 sites were working, including Technologies of the Future, Ecology and Health, Global Politics and its agenda: how to protect the world, New Media, and International Cultural Space. They could be visited by absolutely all participants. True, not always it happened because of coincidences of their work on time or a large number of people wishing to go there.

– At one of the sites I particularly liked the lecture “Social networks, messengers and the media”. To date, this is one of the most relevant topics, because it reflects all aspects of our reality, “says Aigerim. – First of all, we are talking about honesty, because some media in the pursuit of high ratings distort the facts.

The program of the festival was very rich and covered different directions. Every day there were meetings with famous sportsmen, politicians and actors. Aigerim managed to visit many venues. On one of them was the world famous Australian speaker Nick Vuychich, born with a rare disease. The girl confesses that she really wanted to talk to him, but the line to Nick was huge, so I had to be content with watching this meeting on the screen. But it turned out to meet with Russian singer Diana Gurtskaya and even take a picture with her. For the sake of interest, the Tehtrade student went “on a visit” to the LDPR, where Vladimir Zhirinovsky did not talk at all about his political activities, but how to become a leader.

The most important emotions, according to Aigerim, she received from communication with representatives of different countries. In one of the social networks, they created a group in which they are being rewritten so far.

“I made friends with the guys from India, Great Britain, Ireland and Serbia, learned about their history and culture,” the girl says. – We communicate with many in Russian. During the festival we are very united. As a result of my participation in the festival, there were sketches of several social projects, which I plan to implement with my supporters in the near future in my native Temirtau.