NucKids and Arguments and Facts newspaper. Big heart.

18.03.2014

Participants of the International Creative Project for Children Nuclear Kids of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation joined the Easter Joy project Big Heart of the Arguments and Facts’ Charity Foundation. The preparations started in five Nuclear Industry Information Centers: in Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk and St. Petersburg.

Nuclear Kids Project participants consider themselves one big friendly family; they are always ready to help not only each other, but also those children who are in trouble.

Talented kids of nuclear industry employees will take part in art master classes of the Easter Joy Charity Project.

On March 31st workshops will be held in Nizhny Novgorod, on April 2nd – in Yekaterinburg, on April 3rd – in Novouralsk, on April 4th – in Snezhinsk, on April 5th – in Chelyabinsk, on April 9th – in Krasnoyarsk, on April 14th – in St. Petersburg. The hosts of the workshops have prepared a unique program for each regional site. Children from different regions will have to work in original art painting techniques, and the Easter egg collections they create will reflect the traditional art motifs of the their local areas.

Participating in the charitable project Easter Joy, the children will try to help their peer Veronika Bandenkova, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, a severe hereditary disease. “Veronika looks like an ordinary teenage kid. A little shorter in stature, a little skinnier than her peers. As Veronica says, “Everyone is different and it’s more interesting!” her mother writes.

Based on the results of the art workshops, a charity exhibition and sale of a collection of the Easter eggs will be held at Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation on April 22nd. All funds from the sale of the collection will be donated to the Big Heart Fund. They will be used to buy a vibration jacket for Veronika, which costs 490 thousand rubles.

It should be noted that the art workshops will be held in conjunction with regional auditions of Nuclear Kids 2014 summer session. Both past and future participants of Nuclear Kids will be able to take part.

The project Big Heart of the Arguments and Facts’ Charity Foundation helps seriously ill children and the disabled. During its existence, the foundation has paid for the treatment of hundreds of kids in medical centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Tula, Samara, Ufa, and Kislovodsk. In 2013 alone, the fund raised 79 million rubles, thanks to which it was possible to save and make a full-quality life of 412 people.

Nuclear Kids is the International Creative Project for Children of ROSATOM State Atomic Energy Corporation, which annually brings together talented children of nuclear industry employees from Russia and Rosatom’s foreign partners to stage a bright musical show. The project aims to strengthen friendly ties between children of nuclear industry employees from different countries, develop creative skills of talented children, and popularize nuclear energy among the younger generation.