Tadamon Accelerator, a public platform for civil society empowerment, has awarded a $30 000 grant to the Kunde cafe project. This cafe was created by a NU graduate and is located on the university premises.
As part of its comprehensive 14-week acceleration program, Tadamon provided training and capacity development opportunities to 50 civilian organizations. The program included five core modules and several additional modules to ensure participants had a clear understanding of social innovation.
Kunde was selected by a distinguished international jury consisting of experts from the United Nations Development Programme, the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD). The 24 grant recipients demonstrated exceptional creativity and dedication in their proposals, and over the course of the program demonstrated the potential to make a significant impact on their communities and contribute to the collective effort to eradicate poverty in member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
“It is very important for a person to get settled in life, to be happy and to benefit society. This is what everyone wants. In Kazakhstan, we have been involved in charity work for a long time, organizing various fundraising events and delivering clothes and necessary items to families in need. However, we wanted to focus on a systematic approach to solving these problems. We wanted to build charity not on human generosity, pity or people’s pride, but on the simple desire to eat well and get good service,” said Maulen Akhmetov, founder of the Kunde project.
