"Albana" Co. Ltd almost an year regularly transfers gratuitously to charity fund "АYALA" a considerable quantity of the freshest fragrant and useful bananas. Employees of "Albana" Co. Ltd know that charity fund "АYALA" has a lot of wards. They are children's homes, and boarding schools for children from needy families and special (correctional) boarding schools, children's sanatoria, and children's homes. Children and employees of these establishments always with pleasure meet workers of fund who bring them vitamin gifts. There is a human hormone analog of a happiness in bananas which though for a short while raises the pupils’ mood of children social establishments. I’m talking to Vladimir Petrovich Mariutsa the director of "Albana" Co. Ltd.
- Bananas in the markets cost expensive, and not each parent can allow itself to pamper its children with this unusual fruit, and you regularly transfer a considerable quantity of fruit to children whom you don't know at all. Tell us, please, what has you personally induced to be engaged in such kind of charities?
- I do not know, it is possible to answer shortly and it is possible to answer hardly longer. I often ask myself a question, what can I personally help... and simply do what I can. Comprehension the necessity fact of rendering assistance to needing persons, requirement for positive changes of the society and the country in whole – all it has played not a last role in my today's vital position.
Through the charities I try to improve the daily reality, but also as the patriot, I look to the future of my country. The future are children, but for today it’s not everything safe here, there are sick children, orphans here, without parental support, or from adverse families. Certainly I can't help to all needing but while there is a possibility here to help at least to several children, we will support the charitable organizations.
- Vladimir Petrovich, do you cooperate only with charity fund "АYALA" or you have other partners and by what principles are you guided in a choice of these organizations?
- We are youngish firm in the Kazakhstan market, therefore for today we have experience in the rendering charitable help with several organizations "Funks", «Civil alliance» and certainly charity fund "АYALA ", but we don't reject at all possibility of cooperation with other charitable organizations and children's homes.
Charity is a serious business, it is necessary to supervise and watch it, that the help arrived there where it is necessary most of all. But, unfortunately, there are many cases when it doesn't occur. Therefore for us one of the basic cooperation criteria with any organization, first of all, it’s an openness, internal control.
- Tell us a little about your company and what stage of your business development did a such thoughts of charity arise at?
- As I already mentioned earlier, our firm exists not so long ago and actively aspires to take its place in the market. We specialize in import, marketing and sale of fresh non-polluting fruit to Kazakhstan. As well as many companies-importers we have begun with import from Russia and Europe. However in due course we have developed our relations with many other countries. We aspire to avoid intermediaries and to build relations directly with the large companies-exporters in countries of goods origin. Now we receive directly the goods from Holland, Spain, Italy, France, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, the republic of South Africa that guarantees high quality and safety.
Business development has certainly played not a last role in possibilities to render help, but all the same the first thoughts of charity was born from comprehension of a situation tragedy in which children were. I am convinced that everyone can be engaged in charity.
- Tell us, please, about plans of your company in general and in charities sphere.
- We plan to continue to support charity fund "АYALA" in the future as well. We are opened to cooperation with other organizations and establishments and we hope to bring the contribution to the bright future of our children.
Thanks for conversation. On behalf of all charitable organizations’ wards we wish you and all your company’s employees health, successes and well-being in a family, and also prosperity to your business. We are assured that this interview becomes for many businessmen of our country a bright example that charity it is possible and it is necessary to be engaged. Also that it’s more conveniently and more effectively to render this activity together with charity funds which have already proved the reliability, responsibility and transparency with their work.
