OREANDA-NEWS. On 17 April 2008 was announced, that at a special trade union conference, which took place in early February its delegates unanimously supported the proposal of the trade union committee of Bogatyr Access Komyr, LLP to collect funds in favor of the aggrieved families.

The charitable action lasted almost two months. Every other employee of the Company participated in the collection of funds. The contributions to the common money-box were various: some people gave 100 KZT from their salaries, others could allocate 1,000 KZT, and some people contributed 5,000 KZT… As a result for the time of that action the Bogatyr personnel collected about 1,000,000 KZT.

- I responded to the call to support our aggrieved colleagues without any hesitations – the head of Railcar Repair Depot №1 of the Bogatyrsky PTU, Gabdulla Sadralin, shares his opinion with us, - none of us is safeguarded against any misfortunes, and when you see that you are not left alone, this encourages so much. The same ideas were expressed by other miners as well.

The other day the representatives of the trade union of the employees of the coal industry of Ekibastuz as well as the trade union committee of BAK, LLP headed by its Chairman Alexander Shmeyer went to Karaganda. They visited the families of the miners who had suffered as a result of the accident. They handed them over the envelopes with the collected money. Moved by such attention the Karaganda miners asked to thank their colleagues, all the Bogatyr people who did not keep aloof from their big grief, very much.

After that the Ekibastuz delegation paid a visit to the city suburb where in the nearest future the memorial devoted to the memory of the deceased men will be built. According to the geologists this point corresponds to the place where at the level of 350 meters deep there are the remains of the miners whom one could not deliver up to the surface. At the time being the orthodox cross and memorial tablets on which the names of the deceased are carved have been installed. In the vicinity there will also be a Muslim Mosque built there.