Snow landing troop: more than 20 thousand volunteers gathered at the RUSSIA EXPO
The
All-Russian patriotic campaign "Snow Landing Troop of the Russian Student
Squads" started in the Home of Youth at the RUSSIA EXPO. More than 20,000
volunteers from 82 regions of the country took part in the action.
In the year
of the 55th anniversary of the "Snow Landing", Deputy Prime Minister
of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova noted the significance of the
project.
"The
Snow Landing Troop of the Russian Student Squads is about those who are ready
to help where it is needed. Each participant of the campaign knows firsthand
how important it is to provide patronage assistance, tidy up monuments, conduct
career guidance lessons for schoolchildren, creative masterclasses and
concerts. It is the arrival of the Snow Troopers of the RSS that the residents
of the most remote villages and settlements of our country look forward to
every year," emphasized Tatyana Golikova.
In the
jubilee year of the campaign, the Snow Troop squads together with the State
Foundation "Defenders of the Fatherland" pay special attention to
personal assistance to the families of the participants of the special military
operation. The volunteers will also go to the historically significant place
for the student squads - the Bulayevsky state farm of the North-Kazakhstan region,
where the first labor season of the student squads was held in 1959.
For the
first time a Snow Landing Troop trip will be organized in cooperation with
Russian Railways, and its participants will go to help veterans of the railway
complex within the framework of the 50th anniversary of BAM. The campaign is
also organized in new regions of the country. This year volunteers from Donetsk
People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Zaporozhye region will help local
residents and organize patronage.
"About
20 thousand volunteers will go to help the inhabitants of villages, settlements
in the most remote corners of our country. During the campaign participants
will have time to visit more than a thousand settlements. Volunteerism today is
actively supported at the state level. A number of legislative bills have been
adopted, which regulate volunteer activities and help to develop them. Last
November, the President signed a law to support volunteering in the regions.
The main thing is that everyone who participates in the RSS Snow Troop campaign
does it solely out of the call of their heart. Goodwill is our cultural
code," said Mikhail Kiselev, Chairman of the Board of the Russian Student
Squads, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Youth Policy.
