Towards the Victory

The Alem Young Talents Support Program, having been promoted in suburbs and outskirts of Kazakhstan for three years, gives special attention to the children who dedicated their life to athletics. While the Project “Sport-Health-Achievements” of Saby Charitable Foundation aims to turn fosterlings of children social institutions to a healthy life-style and to create for them respective conditions through repair and construction of sports and playgrounds, the Alem Program in its turn allows to fulfill every young athlete’s potential in particular.

Recently the Program was addressed by the representative office in Kazakhstan of the World Shotokan Karate-do Association with the request to consider the question of financing the participation of the eight young karate players who proved their high level of training by their previous achievements in different competitions of the World Cup, planned to be held in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in the beginning of October, 2012.

In our country this sport does not attract many sponsors mostly for the reason that it is not an Olympic kind of sport.

The Foundation’s management, in return, having thoroughly considered the inquiry, adopted a far-sighted decision – to give assistance to the sportsmen as in perspective it is expected that from 2019 karate will after all be added to the list of Olympic kinds of sports. Then Kazakhstan will be able to present Olympic sportsmen trained in advance, and perhaps out of those sportsmen who will achieve their first experience on the world stage this year.

The fact that all the teenagers going to Tashkent, who have been under our patronage for many years, are the fosterlings of the Almaty Oblast Orphanage influenced the Foundation’s verdict.

We are sure that the teenagers will make every effort to prepare to the competition. We hope that intensive training and the dream to become personally acquainted with Chuck Norris, ‘cool Walker’, chairing this competition, will be a guarantee of the greatest results.