OREANDA-NEWS. January 28, 2011. The OMK-Uchastiye Charitable Foundation has held a charity campaign, Share Your Smile, at the Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Special guests of the campaign were little patients of the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, children from boarding schools and social shelters based in the Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod regions, and children of United Metallurgical Company employees.

Guests were met by a brass band of Santa Clauses at the circus entrance and entertained by clowns and animators in the lobby. Children received New Year presents from the Snow Maiden and Santa Clause. Young spectators made decorations to be put on seven fir-trees. After the event, the trees were presented to seriously ill children in hospitals.

The circus lobby housed a trade fair where children's works dedicated to New Year and fairytales themes were available for sale.

"This campaign was aimed at raising money for the medical treatment of two boys," said Irina Sedykh, the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the OMK-Uchastiye Foundation. "They are Daniil Okhotnikov, aged 10, and Nikolay Kolokolov, aged 11. They are both seriously ill and need complicated surgery. The campaign raised about 500 thousand rubles."

"The more campaigns of this kind are organized, the better," said the campaign's guest Pavel Astakhov, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights. "If people are willing to share their smiles, good spirits, kindness, and care with our young citizens, children, this should be done now, without any procrastination!"

Last year, the OMK-Uchastiye Foundation allocated more than 20 million rubles to help children. The Foundation's funds include voluntary donations made by United Metallurgical Company employees and other people who are not indifferent to the future of children who are in trouble.