You can take Kazakh people out of Kazakhstan but you cannot take out “Kazakhstan” from a Kazakh people. That’s why WE know that you want to meet another Kazakh wherever you go. Here comes our attempt to acquaint you with Kazakh associations in Switzerland, France, and Poland. WE hope your desire to be in touch with Kazakhstani citizens is going to be easy now. Also, if you just want to see how Kazakhstani people celebrate their national festivals, and if you want to learn more about Kazakh culture in your country, these associations might come handy to you.
Kazakh Association in Switzerland
Daniyar Tokbayev
28 years old, Vice President of KazAlliance for international affairs
Nowadays, in Switzerland, particularly in Geneva, there is a Kazakh Association abroad called “KazAlliance” which was created by uniting several student organizations. The number of Kazakhs in Switzerland is not as big as in the USA or the UK but the peculiarity of our organization is that almost every Kazakh knows each other, and we always celebrate National festivals and important Kazakh events together.
The main goal of the alliance is to promote cultural diplomacy in the territory of Swiss Confederation using following methods: hosting cultural and sports events, supporting and providing Kazakhs with necessary information, cooperating with international organizations.
We organize”movie screening” of Kazakh movies with English and Russian subtitles and also organize various Kazakh national exhibitions and events.
This year we plan to organize football match in Bern where our team “Astana” v. “Young Boys” play on the 8th of December, and on the 16th of December, we will gather all the Kazakhstanis to celebrate Independence Day in Geneva.
Students and people from Kazakhstan can contact us via:
Instagram — @swiss.kazalliance
Contacts: +41779095015
Kazakh Association in France
Aia Royer
32 years old, Organizer of events in Kazakh association
The association was established nearly five years ago and its aim is to connect our brothers and sisters who have come to France from Kazakhstan, to help everyone to adapt to the brand new life, to celebrate national holidays together and just to be closer to and connected with each other.
Totally there are almost 60 members in our community, and we all gather in my house at Bouche a l’oreille, where we hang out, talk to each other, cook our food together and just spend quality time together.
Students and citizens from Kazakhstan can contact us via:
Kazakh Association in Poland
Ruslan Evniev
21 years old, President of Kazakh Association in Warszawa
The full name of our association is “Students Community Bars” which was founded in 2011. The aim of the community is to integrate all Kazakh people, mainly students who have arrived to Warszawa. We help everyone to get used to a new lifestyle, give necessary information, for example how to find an apartment, to get residence permit, insurance, etc.
We have representatives in other cities in Poland as in Krakow, Lodz, and Poznan. We organize different celebrations as Nauryz, Independence Day etc. We show locals our national culture, traditional dishes, musical instruments, dance and songs which we organize with the help from our students.
We try to make life of our students and friends interesting and memorable, thus, we conduct team building programs, hang out together, go to the cinema and cafes, and just discuss everything that is important to them, and is required to know or learn.
Additionally, we organize annual football matches where people from Ukraine, Belarus, Morocco, compete with our team. We also took part in the meeting with President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
This year, we are going to hold events and meetings with Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Poland, and with senators.
Students and citizens from Kazakhstan can contact us via:
Contacts: +48 730 570 269
