ECOVOLONTERS IN ONLINE MODE

           The words of the First President N. A. Nazarbayev, that difficulties harden the strong spirit of self-confident people. Therefore, we need to put aside apathy, anxiety, passivity and, together with the whole world, strengthen ourselves on the way out of the crisis».

Since March 16, 2020, the Eurasian National University named after L. N. Gumilyov has switched to distance learning, so the «environmental volunteering Club» of the Department of social pedagogy and self-knowledge continues to work with young people on-line and in social networks.

On April 8, 2020, environmental volunteers organized an online master class in the environmental direction for the sustainable development of Kazakhstan. The meeting of students of various specialties was held on the ZOOM platform with the UNDP Kazakhstan Project Coordinator, Dr. Ph.D Alexander Beliy. The master class was dedicated to the role of "green technologies" in solving environmental problems in Kazakhstan that prevent the environmental consequences of global climate change.

The emphasis was placed on the participation of young people as future specialists and their volunteer activities in addressing this issue.

On-line meeting was organized in the framework of the project "Greening higher education system as the spiritual consciousness of students" with the participation of Ph. D., Professor in the Department of social pedagogics and self-knowledge G. K. Dilimbetova, PhD students S. Abenova, student D. Akimish.

The event was held according to the work plan of the eco-volunteers club. It was actively attended by students of various faculties and specialties, such as «Pedagogy and psychology», «Social pedagogy and self-knowledge», «Journalism», «Political Science», «Design», «Regional Studies», «History», «International relations», «Turkology», «Ecology» and others (Zh. Salimgozhinova, A. Berdalina, N. Umirzakova, S. Kazbekova, N. Tleukesh, Zh.Temirbayeva, Zh.Kairatov, Zh. Kiikov, R. Eskendir and others). Holding this kind of event once again confirms that the rector of our university E. B. Sydykov, that «in the life of our university there are many events that I would like to talk about…». Yerlan Battashevich is an active user of the social network of Instagram and actively supports the work of the university’s youth, including the official page of the Club of Eco-Volunteers of the Faculty of Social Sciences. And this support in the current situation, as never before, is a greater incentive for members of the eco-volunteer club to move forward and show social activity in the student life of our university.