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Open your eyes! - Action to support children's home

Jan. 4 The regular action "Open your eyes!". The event takes place every year, and his goal is to help the orphanage. Share spend Irkutsk punk rock musicians and Anarchists. This time was planned trip to the regional children's home city Slyudyanka. Young people organized a collection of toys, children's clothes, and bought the balls for soccer and basketball games for the development and children's books. Money to buy all the necessary managed to gain a punk rock concert, which on its own was organized in December, and where local musical groups participated.Why was chosen orphanage in Sludyanka, so far from Irkutsk, the guys explain that in the New Year many people arrange financial assistance to orphanages and come back with gifts, but unfortunately, it's all within the Irkutsk and the surrounding areas. And in children's homes located far from the city, much less come to visit. Participants of the rally say that the most important thing - not even the amount of aid and attention to children. In addition to gifts, the guests arranged for them a small idea, spent a few games, sang children's songs with a guitar, make a small concert at the orphanage.
The action "Open your eyes" is the fifth consecutive year, it began with a punk-rock concerts, organized on the principle of "do it yourself." Thus, the Irkutsk punk rock musicians and Anarchists are trying to convey a simple idea, "that the party should not take away from the reality in which you live. We do not do charity work, we work ourselves, we neither of whom are independent.Our means - music, our goal - to destroy the indifference. "

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