The Karic Foundation - Moscow
| The Karic
Foundation in Moscow was founded in 1995 by Hafa Karic who is its president. The
Foundation has a very wide and rich specter of humanitarian activities and actions in
helping young people and organizing and sponsoring exclusive cultural manifestations and
actions by Yugoslav and Russian artists. |
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| The Moscow Foundation collected large supplies of medicines,
clothing, and footwear as well as cash donations for refugees who fled
from their homes in the course of the war in Croatia and Bosnia. It organized special actions for New Year's presents for refugee children,
and it financed medical treatment for child victims of the
fighting, who would otherwise have gone without. |
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Moscow branch of the
Karic Foundation sponsors guest performances by artists in
Serbia and Yugoslavia. The Foundation organized and financed the guest
performance of the famous Bolshoy Ballet as well as that of the prestigious folk group
Berjoska. It also gives scholarships and helps young talents, sponsors their
participation at international festivals, provides funds for concerts and production of
CDs and cassettes, organizes auctions and painting exhibitions. |
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The
Karic Foundation in Moscow provides scholarships for 100 students from Russia and Serbia
who are studying at the "BK" University in Belgrade and Moscow. It finances the
participation of professors and students from these faculties at international symposiums
and co-finances the organization of international scientific gatherings in Belgrade and
Moscow. |
| The Moscow
Foundation has made large donations to the renovation and construction of around ten
Russian Orthodox Churches in Moscow and Omsk, then for the memorial complex On Prohor
Field. The Moscow branch has also been donator to a number of Orthodox temples in the
Ukraine. For all its work the Foundation received a formal
letter of thanks from the Patriarch of Moscow and the whole of Russia, his Holiness
Alexei. |
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