Veteran gave his savings to children
The veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Mikhail Stepanovich Stepanov from Verkh-Chebuly, gave the saved money to the children. He presented 100 thousand rubles to the Smena rehabilitation center, and 30 thousand to the physics school of the local school.The idea of charitable assistance arose from Mikhail Stepanovich not from the bay, the front-line soldier approached the matter seriously and thoroughly. “At first he wanted to make a gift to the orphanage and came with these intentions to our head of the social welfare department. He said:“ Irina Viktorovna, I want to help the orphanage. ”She replied that there was no rehabilitation center in her department, but there was a rehabilitation center. Then we They invited Mikhail Stepanovich to Smena, told him what he needed. He offered us to choose what was necessary. The question of the amount was raised, and then Mikhail Stepanovich said about 100 thousand rubles. Of course, we were shocked and for a long time departed Now he is our big friend, we We go to visit him, we communicate. Thanks to him very much, ”Valentina Kuznetsova, the head of the Smena center, shared with Kemerovo’s Newspaper.
For donated money, the children's center bought plot-role-playing games, a projector with a screen, a sports wall and a dry pool. This does not include designers, dolls, roller skates and scooters. The children had time to buy all this by the summer.
And for the new school year, the front-line soldier made another gift, this time to the local school, and specifically to the physics classroom. "This year marks 20 years, as my class took patronage over Mikhail Stepanovich. Since then, the children have changed, and the friendship with him continued. The guys help him with the housework, invite him to class hours, set tables for the holidays. There is a corner in the classroom, dedicated to the frontline biography of Mikhail Stepanovich, ”said Irina Pestretsova, a physics teacher.“ He gives us presents for the second time. Last year he donated equipment to 10 thousand rubles, in this case to 30. With his help, now 10 laboratory kits appeared in the office "Electric quality, "L-micro" computer measuring unit, sensors of magnetic field, temperature and electrical conductivity of solutions. We ordered this equipment in August, now it is on the way from Moscow. They said that within two weeks they will come. "
The veteran Stepanov himself warmly recalls how the schoolchildren helped him, how the children cleaned the snow and dragged firewood in the winter, and in the summer they cleaned potatoes from the Colorado beetles. Mikhail Stepanovich explains his charity simply: "I love children." “And also,” the front-line soldier added, “I feel very sorry for abandoned children, it’s a pity that there are so many of them. No one is offended by my relatives, I help them whenever possible, and I allocated this money specifically to support the needy.”
To stop on the achieved grandfather does not intend. “I also have an orphanage in the queue, there are about fifty people there. I have been there for several years, but I haven’t been able to help yet, and this year I’m thinking of reaching them,” he said.
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