Village Councils

Meetings and consultations are the fundamental basis of KPO activity in the area of corporate social responsibility. The existing dialogue in the format of Village Councils with local communities allows KPO to answer their questions, discuss suggestions and initiatives as they arise, helping to address their concerns.

The Village Councils help identify priorities for KPO’s social investment in the villages. These bodies were established in 2005 as provided by a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Burlin District Akimat, the District Maslikhat and KPO.

In 2023, 14 Village Councils meetings were held in the Priuralnyi, Zharsuat and Uspenovskiy rural districts. During the meetings, the local residents were informed of the KPO Community Development Programmes for 2023, on the progress of students from these rural districts who study in colleges and universities of Uralsk under the KPO Scholarship Programme, as well as KPO Environmental Monitoring Programme.

Over the period of the Scholarship Programme for residents of the nearby rural districts from 2010 to 2023, 20 young men and women received education.

As part of the Community Development Programme, KPO provided 250 vouchers for the elderly of Burlin district for health recreation in the Akzhaiyk Sanatorium.

Also, in 2023 with funding assistance from KPO 74 children had recreation in the Summer Camp in Uralsk city. The summer camp programme includes a wide range of entertainment, educational and sports events allowing children to learn a lot of new and exciting things, about the nature and make new friends.

Over the twenty years of implementation of this Programme KPO provided recreation for some 2 thousand children from the neighbouring communities.