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The Community Development Support Program in the Russian Federation

Project complex

Beslan: Light, Warmth and Kindness

Grant amount  $70 000       Grantee contribution  $37 360         Total amount  $107 360

List of thematic projects included in the complex

• Warmth for Children
• Learning to Be Useful!
• Energy-Efficiency: Step by Step

4. Hyppotherapy and a Revival of the National Art of Horse Riding in Beslan

Municipality profile  The city of the Beslan is a raion capital in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania has a population of 36,000 people. A federal railroad passes through the city. The population is employed at industrial facilities, among which are 4 large distilleries. Beslan has become known to the world on September 1, 2004,  when during a terrorist attack fifteen hundred people were taken hostage in School # 1 and 300 people, mostly children, were killed.

Municipal problems addressed by the project complex
The project complex will involve the community in addressing problems facing the city and promoting active life styles. Two years after the terrorist attack, many residents of Beslan are still in a state of depression. The project complex will encourage active lifestyles among community members and will involve them in various types of activities and projects aimed at improving their lives.

Project complex goals:

• Build a stand-alone automatic boiler plant and, thus, resolve the problem of heat and hot water supply to the local kindergarten and save municipal budget funds; and reduce hazardous emissions by over 30%.
• Train local youth in writing proposals for small social projects and announce a contest of such projects in the raion. At least 8 such projects will be implemented.
• Organize, for the first time in a school in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, activities under the international project SPARE aimed at involving youth in the study of energy consumption patterns at home, at school and in the community.
• Teach local children and adolescents to handle horses and organize a horse-riding training group to teach them the basics of horse-riding and traditional crafts (saddlery and smith craft).

Project complex contact
Alla Khabliyeva – headmaster of School # 8 in Beslan
Contact information
70 Lenina St., Beslan, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, tel.: (86737) 3-77-97; e-mail: allatemir@mail.ru
Organizations – members of the project complex consortium

Title	Category	Profile
Administration of  Pravoberezhny Raion, Beslan	Municipal	Exercise of authority in managing municipal property and land relations.
School # 8, Beslan	Municipal	An educational institution where in 2005 the Emotional Development Center was founded for the rehabilitation of children, parents and teachers – victims of the terrorist attack of 2004.
School # 4, Beslan	Municipal	An educational institution.
Stud Farm, a municipal institution	Municipal	Upgrading horse breeds and organizing traditional equestrian sports events at the hippodrome. Training youth in the basics of horse riding.

Project period (months)

10

Start date

01/05/ 2007

End date

28/02/2008

Project
Warmth for Children

Organization
Local self-government administration of Pravoberezhny raion in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Type of organization
Government
Start date: May 1, 2007
End date: November 30, 2007
Project summary
This project will build a stand-alone automatic boiler plant that will resolve the problem of heat and hot water supply to the local kindergarten and will save municipal budget funds. The energy savings will be accumulated on a special account and will be used in accordance with the decisions of a public council.
Location
Pravoberezhny raion in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Contact information
18 Plieva St., Beslan, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania 363020; tel.: (86737) 31554
Project coordinator – Arthur Kamayev, main specialist of the Communal Services Department at the Local Self-Government Administration of Pravoberezhny raion in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Project goals

• Put up a new building for the boiler plant of Kindergarten # 2;
• Install modern equipment: an automated stand-alone boiler plant;
• Create a mechanism for reinvesting energy savings into the sustainable development of Beslan through the local Public Council (Nykhash).

Anticipated results

• Heat and water will be supplied to the kindergarten for 180 people: the children and personnel;
• 88,535 rubles will be saved during each heating season (180 days).

Total project amount  $ 33 300           Grantee contribution  $ 8 300            Grant amount  $25 000

Project
Learning to be Useful!

Organization
Middle Education School № 8 in Beslan
Type of organization
Government
Start date: May 1, 2007
End date: December 31, 2007
Project summary
This project will train local youth in preparing proposals for small social projects and will announce a contest of such projects in the community; as a result of the contest, at least 8 projects will be implemented. Experience will be accumulated in organizing inexpensive family recreation activities (which will be joined by 100 people from families of various categories) and children’s ecotourism (80 people).
Location
Pravoberezhny raion in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Contact information
70 Lenina St., Beslan, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, tel.: (86737) 3-77-97
Project coordinator – Alla Khabliyeva, headmaster of School # 8
Project goals

• Involve adolescents and youth in volunteer work for the benefit of the community, including  preparation and implementation of small social projects;
• Organize affordable family recreation and school ecotourism within the Republic;
• Increase the level of social activity among the city’s youth, and promote public health.

Anticipated results

• At least 100 pupils will participate in the raion contest of youth projects;
• At least 8 of the prepared projects will be carried out and at least 120 people will benefit from them;
• At least 180 people will be involved in new forms of family and children’s recreation activities.

Total project amount  $ 33 000               Grantee contribution  $ 13 000           Grant amount  $20 000

Project
Energy-Efficiency: Step by Step

Organization
Middle Education School № 4 in Beslan
Type of organization
Government
Start date: May 1, 2007
End date: February 28, 2008
Project summary
This project will be the first in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania to organize school activities within the framework of an international project aimed at involving youth in the study of energy consumption at home, at school and in the community. This experience will be disseminated among teachers from other schools of the raion and city.
Location
Pravoberezhny raion in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Contact information
84a Iristonskaya St., Beslan 363020; tel.:  (86737) 3-10-33
Project coordinator – Larisa Djamiyeva, headmaster
Project goals

• Organize youth research activities to study energy consumption and energy-saving at home and in school;
• Organize school energy patrolling to ensure a rational use of electricity in the school building;
• Organize socially useful activities of adolescents in the community to involve local residents in energy-saving;
• Replace part of the electric lamps in the school with energy-efficient ones and assess their effectiveness;
• Disseminate experience gained under the SPARE Project among teachers of other schools in Pravoberezhny raion.

Anticipated results

• At least 20 schoolchildren will be involved in research;
• At least 90 students of the school and 50 teachers will take part in an international energy-efficiency project;
• At least 20 teachers from other schools of the city will be trained at a seminar conducted as part of project activities.

Total project amount $ 6 060    Grantee contribution $ 1 060    Grant amount $ 5 000

Project
Hyppotherapy and a Revival of the National Art of Horse Riding in Beslan Organization Stud Farm, a municipal institution

Type of organization
Municipal
Start date: May 1, 2007
End date:  February 28, 2008
Project summary
This project will repair the stables, acquire horses and harnessing, and create conditions for training children; organize horse and pony rides for children from Beslan and Pravoberezhny raion as a type of recreation. The pupils of each of the 20 schools of the raion will be able to come to the stables and ride on horses on an average once a month. A group will be formed of 15-20 high school students who display a special interest in horses and they will be trained in horse riding and traditional Ossetian  crafts (saddlery and smithery). Special attention will be paid to organizing visits to the stables for disabled children, victims of the terrorist attack.
In the course of 10 months the project will sponsor 2 large horse shows and one commemorative event – a horse races devoted to the 3rd anniversary of the tragedy - that will be joined by equestrian organizations from other regions of Northern Caucuses.
Location
Pravoberezhny raion in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Contact information
39 Friyeva St., Beslan, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania 363020; tel.: 8-928-6853753
Project coordinator – Kazbek Tsallagov, director
Project goals

• Train children in the basics of national  horse riding and crafts;
• Organize recreation activities for children – riding on horses, ponies and wagons and  spending time with horses;
• Sponsor large horse shows and Ossetian commemorative horse races devoted to children and adults killed in the terrorist attack.

Anticipated results

• At least 1,000 children (100 children every month) will attend emotional relaxation sessions at the stud farm. Horse-riding training for children will be continued after the end of the project.
• At least 40 residents of Beslan will learn to ride horses.
• At least 1,000 children from Beslan will take part in horse shows and commemorative events.
• In the course of the horse shows, the experience of Beslan in organizing hyppotherapy will be disseminated to other regions of the Republic and to Northern Caucuses.
• At least 40 adolescents will become acquainted with national crafts connected with horses and at least 10 of them will learn one of such crafts.

Total project amount  $ 35 000                Grantee contribution  $ 15 000                  Grant amount  $ 20 000