Government, NGOs, Universities Unite to Help Trafficking Victims in Astana
ASTANA – Makhabat Sadykova, a 20-year-old student in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nazarbayev University, was introduced to the disturbing criminal activity of human trafficking in 2013 during the university screening of an anti-trafficking film, “Dark Side of Chocolate.” “I knew about people exploiting others for free labour,” she said, “but I…
Haileybury Astana Students, Teachers Make Charitable Trip to Nepal
ASTANA – A small group of staff and pupils from the British school Haileybury Astana left Astana International Airport April 16 to make the 2,855-km, 30-hour journey to Kathmandu, Nepal. Irish native Aideen Robbins, the school’s head of math, explained the reason for the trip. “Nepal is an amazing country and somewhere that I wanted…
