Rustam Minnikhanov to take part in opening of Ronald MacDonald House at Children’s Regional Clinical Hospital
10 July 2013, Wednesday
On July 10 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, McDonalds President in Russia and Eastern Europe Khazmat Khasbulatov will take part in official opening of Ronald MacDonald House at Children’s Regional Clinical Hospital in Kazan.
Parents of children who arrived from other towns to receive medical treatment at Children’s Regional Clinical Hospital will live at the hotel. The foundation stone of Ronald MacDonald House was laid last year in August.
The hotel was built at the expense of Ronald MacDonald House Charity Foundation. It is the first McDonalds family hotel in Russia.
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Ronald MacDonald House Charity Foundation was registered in Russia in 1995. Its Board of guardians consists of company’s officials and medical specialists. Main projects of the foundation are Ronald MacDonald Centre (sports and recreation centre for handicapped children), “Family rooms” and regional educational programme.
On 23 December Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov took part in the All-Russia charity action “The Fir Tree of Wishes” organized by the Movement of the First.
On 20 December at a meeting of the Commission on prevention and mitigation of emergencies and ensuring fire safety in Tatarstan held in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via video conference, the First Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Rustam Nigmatullin said that the today’s meeting is to discuss ensuring fire safety during New Year and Christmas holidays and children’s winter holidays.
On 20 December in his address to Russian security officials, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin on behalf of the Government of the republic congratulated them with their professional holiday and wrote: “Security bodies have always been a reliable support for the state. Representatives of this vocation are people in the shadows but their service is extremely important for the order in our country.
On 19 December before the beginning of the XIX congress of the Association of the Tatarstan Council of Municipalities, the Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin took part in the All-Russia charity action “The Fir Tree of Wishes” and took post cards with wishes of six children from the New Year tree.