Charity on Christmas

Traditionally, on New Year's Eve, Rostelecom provides financial assistance to regional orphanages and boarding schools across the country. In total, more than 5.5 million rubles were remitted in 2018.

The charitable funds are used to purchase sports, developmental, educational equipment, including equipment for modern computer classes with Internet access, as well as basic necessities, clothes and shoes for orphanages.

Part of Rostelecom charity program is a volunteer project "Become Father Frost". In December, the Company's offices across the country start collecting gifts. Lists of children from sponsored orphanages are published on the corporate portal in advance, along with information about gifts they are eager to receive from Father Frost. Each employee of the Company can choose a gift and the child to whom he/she would give it as a present. The children's dreams are very different: sports equipment, mobile devices, sets for creativity, children's toys, shoes, clothes. The collected gifts are sorted and sent to orphanages. The ceremony is accompanied by bright new year performances.

In 2018, about 2 thousand children from 38 orphanages in 36 cities of Russia received new year gifts from the Company employees.