The First Moscow Parade of Volunteers
This year, the Tolerance Centre has taken an active part in work with volunteer teams from institutions of secondary vocational education. On the 27th May, a Volunteers Parade took place at Vorobyovye Gory, constituting a real celebration for youngsters involved in setting up voluntary initiatives over the past academic year. The parade’s organiser — the Moscow Centre for Physical, Military, Patriotic and Civil Education of Schoolchildren and Students in Vocational Education — invited its colleagues, including Tolerance Centre director Anna Makarchuk, to the awards ceremony for the “Best Volunteer.” First place went to Yekaterina Sergeyevna Shishkova, a student at the state-funded secondary education institution, A. A. Nikolaev Moscow Road Transport College.
Representatives of the Tolerance Centre were invited to the parade as reliable and important partners, as honoured guests, and were the most delighted spectators of all they witnessed. 1,000 students took part in the parade, from 39 colleges, with each volunteer team preparing heartfelt and striking chants and dances, all concluding with a movement of the hands from the heart, out to the world. The parade opened with a march of drummers from the Police Academy, whose din was seconded from above as an eruption of thunder came like the clashing of cymbals, as if to accompany the music. The torrential rain that followed turned the flash-mob, in which all on the parade seemed to form a single beating heart, into a real spectacle!
The Tolerance Centre extends its gratitude to the student-volunteers, their supervisors and organisers, for all their energy and sincerity! We are overjoyed to have done our bit to support the work of such caring people.
