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.
