OREANDA-NEWS. April 27, 2009. The PROTEK Charity Fund has summed up its performance results for 2008. Over this period, the Fund focused on implementation of the HEALTH TO PEOPLE Charity Program, under which they have sent free medications in the value of over 40 million rubles to the medical and prevention facilities, including via non-profit organizations, in order to improve health and enhance the quality of life of the Russian citizens.

The HEALTH TO PEOPLE Program was joined by the leading Russian and foreign companies manufacturers of medications, such as FarmFirm SOTEX ZAO, Gedeon Richter, Novo Nordisk, Italfarmaco, Octapharma, Unique Pharmaceutical, Glaxo SmithKline Beecham, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, IVAX-CR, KRKA, Lyka Labs, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, and others. The Soyuzfarma Association of Pharmacy Institutions also supported the Fund.
More than 80 health institutions from the city of Moscow, as well as from the Moscow, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Voronezh, and Chelyabinsk regions and other regions of the country participated in the program during the year.

The initiative by the PROTEK Fund made it possible for thousands of Russians to obtain needed medications. The medications provided to the hospitals were used to conduct complicated surgical interventions, treat various infections, heart diseases, etc. They have helped children with oncohematological and other serious conditions, as well as patients affected with various forms of hemophilia. Disabled people, senior citizens, families with many children, orphans and children left without parental support received help from CV PROTEK ZAO, which acted as the main donor under the HEALTH TO PEOPLE Program. A great number of thank-you letters received by PROTEK have become a high appreciation to the Fund’s activities.

The Fund also implements a large number of socially important projects not only in the health industry, but in the fundamental science, culture, education, and sport as well. PROTEK Group has for the third successive year acted as the co-founder of the I.E. Zabelin Prize, which is the highest award for scientific research, implemented by specialists of the historical, regional ethnographical, and the history and fine arts museums of the Russian Federation. The Prize acts as a powerful stimulus for conducting research work at the museum studies, as well as for the exhibition, cultural, educational, collecting, and instructional activities.

The humanitarian and educational project involving the publication of the scientific facsimile edition of the Personal Annalistic Code of the 16th century was continued as well. In 2008, they conducted a ceremonial transfer of the Code to the State Historical Museum and Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. The PROTEK Fund has also lent support to the 4th All-Russian Contest named “Go ahead, Grenadiers!” with the main theme running as “Haste to Do Good”. The contest was held with the blessings of the Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia with the support of the Oecumenic Russian People’s Congress, Russia’s Union of Writers, Russian Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Education. The goal of the contest is to revive and support glorious traditions of serving the Good among children and youth; bringing up the younger generation in the spirit of respect of their historical roots and heroes of the Russian history; spiritual, moral, military and patriotic education of the young people, and promotion of love for Motherland, its founding fathers, and heroes in the younger generation.