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Artur Khafizulin


                                                                                                                  General Director
                                                                                                                  International Restaurant Brands LLC, Moscow

                                                                                                                     I feel great respect to those people who have devoted their
                                                                                                                  lives to charity or have been volunteering. This is an important
                                                                                                                  part of our social life and no doubt business should contribute to
                                                                                                                  this movement.
                                                                                                                     Earlier, I often helped to clean the territory and to paint with
                                                                                                                  fresh cover the fences of some orphanages in the Moscow re-
                                                                                                                  gion. Now I more often participate in charity races organized by
                                                                                                                  various funds, which later apply the raised funds to provide aid
                                                                                                                  to those in need.
                                                                                                                     Volunteers are highly proactive and engaged guys, and this
                                                                                                                  refers not only to their volunteer activities but to all the other
                                                                                                                  aspects of their lives, including their work. That is why, I think, the
                                                                                                                  more volunteers there are – the more vigorous and hospitable
                                                                                                                  our business is.
                                                                                                                     Our company has been actively supporting all the programs
                                                                                                                  of the KFC Corporate Charity Fund “Opening Horizons”. We have
                                                                                                                  been participating in the charity activities arranged by “Yum!”
                                                                                                                  and we have been arranging free lunches for the kids from or-
                                                                                                                  phanages on our own. The desire to help others is wonderful, and
                                                                                                                  if each of us implements this desire into life, then our society and
                                                                                                                  our country will become far kinder and better.
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