The Enactus World Cup is the most important event of the year for thousands of students from all over the world. It is the largest national cup for school and student entrepreneurship, startups and innovation, dating back to the 1970s.

For 22 years of continuous work Saby Charitable Foundation has built a large number of social facilities in different regions of Kazakhstan. These are general education schools, a children's home and a youth home, children's surgeries. The Foundation has accumulated a huge experience of building social institutions, and I would like to share with you three cases “What to do and how to be when you have to build not because of, but in spite of standards”.

I will never forget the day when I first looked into the eyes of orphans. It was in the fall of 2001 in the Almaty orphanage. I go into the box with the newly admitted children. And what I see: two kids. One was jumping in the crib, the other was sitting on the potty. And our eyes met. And it struck me then that one had joy in his eyes, and the other had sadness, the look of an old man. And only later did it become clear that the baby with the eyes of an old man was moving from orphanage to orphanage. And every time someone refuses him.

“Here I am standing in front of you, looking at you - so young, ambitious and brave - and I think that among you there are no those who have broken under the pressure of society, parents who, for the most part, think linearly, from the series: “school-institute- factory-pension", "to live like everyone else, not to stick out". But among you there are those who, perhaps, the first in the generation of their family decided to go into business. You were the first to take the risk. And not because someone told you, but because you decided so.

The word happiness in Russian comes from the word part. We experience happiness in parts, moments, and charity is the best way to become involved in something greater than yourself. I made this discovery 20 years ago when I started my work as a volunteer in one of the Almaty orphanages…