From the Heart to Action
Eldar Sarsenov
The “Ticket to Life” (Omirge Zholdama) program, launched in 2014 at Eldar Sarsenov’s initiative, gives graduates of orphanages and shelters the opportunity to receive higher education at Caspian University. Nurbank fully covers tuition, accommodation, meals, transport and personal needs. Special attention goes to mentoring and employment: graduates are guaranteed jobs at Nurbank and its affiliated companies.
Yerkin Dlimbetov
Since 2022 Yerkin Dlimbetov has been a trustee of the IQanat Educational Fund, annually financing its educational program for rural school students in the Kyzylorda region: KZT 29,000,000 in 2022–2023, KZT 23,944,000 in 2023–2024 and KZT 24,979,680 in 2024–2025. In January 2025 he also sponsored the publication of Aleksey Maksheyev’s book “A Journey through the Kyrgyz Steppes and Turkestan” (KZT 3,700,000).
Rauan Kenzhekhanuly
Presentation of educational projects at Oxford: the event was attended by Sayasat Nurbek, Minister of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan, Ambassador Magzhan Ilyassov, Freedom Holding Corp. founder Timur Turlov, and professors and researchers of the University of Oxford and Oxford University Press.
Dulat Tastekey
The core mission of the Assyltas Foundation is to make the Kazakh language the language of the wider public and the business community through innovation, to engage in charity, promote national values and work in the national interest.
Arsen Tomsky
Supernovas establishes free kids’ football schools globally; the Alternativa Film Awards support emerging filmmakers from the Global South; Beginit empowers youth in remote communities with social leadership skills; the Aurora Tech Award fosters gender equality in tech; and inVision U is a university offering free higher education to talented students. In 2024, Arsen co-founded the Almaty Air Initiative to combat air pollution in Almaty.
Nurassyl Dzharbassov
Since 2022 he has sponsored projects of the Zamandas21 public foundation supporting the older generation.
