We attend seminars held for us in Almaty with great pleasure and hope. Thank you very much for inviting us! Especially we would like to thank Alexander Iosifovich Baron, Mitsva President, for everything he is doing for us.

We always face the question "how to change our life". In this light, it was very interesting to listen to new proposals and projects. This seminar taught us a lot of things. We liked the lecture by Political Scientist Leonid Pukhovich. We were greatly impressed by the film "Light is Everywhere" about tragic events, and lives of Jews during the Great Patriotic War. The video conference with Mikhail Nemerovsky from New York was very interesting. He was great to answer all questions. It was useful for everybody to have a training on economics where we were learning to survive, distribute resources in the right way, overcome difficult situations.

We especially like Shabbat. Relaxed atmosphere, funny and teaching games, contests. Everybody was cheerful and relaxed. When we came back to Taraz, during the holiday Simhath Torah we tried our best to show everything we had learned in Almaty. Children and adults took part in games and contests with great pleasure. It was interesting for everybody. Davar newspaper published an article about it. We are happy that we could help Hesed to organize the holiday.

Our young people like it very much to take part in psychological and economic trainings, contests, and games. We would like to have more of these events because we all have many problems especially during the crisis.

Very important topics were discussed at the seminar, those which are especially relevant for today. Everybody learned a lot of new things and brought this knowledge to their towns to become real leaders. Thank you very much!

Natalya Korchemnaya
Maxim Butchenko