- Raikhan
Salamatsys! My name is Raikhan and I live in Kazakhstan. My country is bordered by high mountains, but most of our land is wide and open, with a big blue sky that is represented on our national flag. There is a Kazak saying, "Kazaks' hearts are like the steppes - wide, kind and generous."
- Kazakhstan Map (Source: UNICEF)
Capital City: Astana (since 1998, before then it was Almaty)
Languages: Kazakh is spoken by 64.4% of the population and is the "state" language, while Russian is the "official" language, used in business
Religion: Muslim (47%), Russian Orthodox (44%), Protestant (2%), Buddhism/Judaism/Other (7%).
Communicating With Your Sponsored Orphan:
Salamatsys, ba? (Hello, how are you?)
Rrrrak-mit (Thank you)
Kosh sow bolingdar (Goodbye)
Asalaam Aleykum (Peace be with you)
Did You Know?
An estimated 100,000 children are living in institutions throughout Kazakhstan: about 30,000 are orphans and the rest are children who have parental difficulties, behavioral problems, or were simply abandoned.
Kazakhstan was a republic of the former Soviet Union and is now a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It is, both politically and economically, the most stable country in Central Asia and in the CIS.
More than 100 nationalities live in Kazakhstan.
Vitamin A deficiency is still a serious concern in many regions of the country.
Brilliant scholars such as the great philosopher, mathematician and musician Al-Farabi and the physician and philosopher Avicenna were born in Kazakhstan.
It is thought that apples originally came from Kazakhstan, where wild apple trees, Malus sieversii, still exist in vast forests.
