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| Timur Tillyaev and Lola Karimova |
Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva
and Timur Tillyaev have opened the premises of a new orphanage in the Uzbek capital,
Tashkent. The new Mercy Home was built with the financial support of
Karimova-Tillyaeva’s charity “You are not alone” to provide children left
without parental care with good standards of living and better opportunities
for their development and education, Lola
Karimova-Tillyaeva’s official website reported on 5 July. The newly-built orphanage will be
home to 198 children, aged between 3 and 16, who previously lived in two
orphanages in Tashkent.
Lola
Karimova-Tillyaeva, the younger
daughter of the Uzbek president Islam Karimov heads two charitable
organizations in Uzbekistan which help orphaned children and children with
special needs.
The newly-built Tashkent orphanage was provided with
advanced facilities needed for children’s overall development and education.
“Specialists have developed a programme to create an environment conducive to
the development of children’s intellectual and creative abilities, as well as
to improve the efficiency of the overall learning process,” the website
reported.
Karimova-Tillyaeva’s
charity is well-known for its work in the
area of improving living conditions in orphanages across Uzbekistan, which
includes renovating the premises of existing orphanages, as well as providing
them with furniture and other facilities needed for children’s development.
“There
was a need to completely change the structure of and approach to the
construction of mercy homes in order to improve the overall standards of living
there, making them close to the home environment, as well as to provide
children left without parental care with better opportunities for education. To
this end, a team of leading specialists - teachers, psychologists, social workers
and medical staff - have been employed to work at the new Mercy Home,” Lola
Karimova-Tillyaeva wrote on her Facebook page on 5 July after attending the opening of the new
orphanage.
The press release posted on her website said the total territory of the mercy home
covering an area of 2.5 hectares comprises administrative premises, a medical
unit, three residential buildings, offices for extra curriculum activities and
social adaptation, a teaching centre, a conference room, a large library, a
sports centre, three swimming pools, a conference hall, a dining room and a
summer amphitheatre.
“Providing children left without parental care with good education is one
of the top priority areas of the foundation’s work. The new Mercy Home has
employed the best professionals: teachers, psychologists and social workers,
whose main objective is to impress upon children that quality education, the
pursuit of knowledge and constant self-development - are the foundations of
getting good profession and decent standards of living in future,” the press
release said.
The premises for extracurricular
activities have studios where children will be able to receive vocational
training in sewing, hairdressing, pottery, culinary, household activities, IT,
photography, fine arts and other areas, which will help them in choosing their
future professions.
“Dear
children, I hope we have managed to create favourable conditions for your
education, development and creative skills,” Karimova-Tillyaeva said in her Facebook post.
Last September Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva and Timur Tillyaev inaugurated premises of Mercy Home No 10 in the city
of Samarkand following its extensive renovation, which was carried out with the
backing of “You are not alone” foundation.
“A total of 1,418 children have been raised in the
Samarkand Mercy Home since it was founded in 1943, and at present the orphanage
is home to 138 children,” the report posted on Lola Karimova’s website said.
Karimova-Tillyaeva’s second charitable organization,
the National Centre for the Social Adaptation of Children, provides assistance
to children with special needs in the areas of diagnosis, orthopedic and
neurological treatment, speech therapy and education.
