UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 1, 2018. MMK Group’s Metallurg Charity Foundation directed RUR 125.6m to support the South Urals-based children in the first half of 2018, MMK Information & PR Department reports.

Metallurg has been coordinating its children’s charity project for seventeen years now, with primary focus on supporting children’s recreational/educational organizations, promoting bigger families, coordinating mother-and-child welfare programs, helping families with three and more children, and investing in state-run clinics and daytime/live-in schools for special-needs children in Magnitogorsk.

For one, Maternity Center was set up and now offers its healthcare services to expectant mothers. Every month, around two hundred women can get professional medical help here free of charge, starting from the 13th week of pregnancy. Four hundred women have been through the center in the last six months. Additionally, they can enjoy a swim at the local water park and get some treatment at Yuzhny Sanatorium. The program also covers for an incidental allowance so that new parents can buy baby clothes and for a monthly allowance until the baby is eighteen months old (and, with adjustments, until the child three years old).