Supporting Healthcare

In line with PAO NOVATEK’s Charity Policy, the Company continued to run projects aimed at helping children in desperate need. As part of the Targeted Therapy project, aimed at helping children with cancer undergoing treatment at the Rogachev National Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology, children received molecular tests for tailored treatment, which significantly increased their chances of recovery.

The Company continued the Health Territory project, a joint initiative with the Pirogov Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital of the Russian Ministry of Health aimed at developing healthcare services in the Company’s regions of operation and providing high-quality medical assistance to children in desperate need of treatment. Teams of leading doctors from the hospital visited eight cities covered by the project: Murmansk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Kostroma, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Novy Urengoy, and Tarko-Sale.

The project provides financial assistance to regional healthcare institutions to purchase expensive high-tech equipment. The Company helped purchase ophthalmic equipment and medical supplies to treat and rehabilitate children with visual impairments for functional therapy departments and the Medical Rehabilitation Center of the Kostroma Regional Children’s Hospital, Kostroma Children’s Polyclinic No. 5, and the Children’s Development Center and Kindergarten No. 132 in Magnitogorsk.

The Company continued to provide annual financial assistance to the YAMINE charitable foundation, helping to arrange medical examinations and healthcare services for seriously ill children and children with disabilities living in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, and providing special care and rehabilitation. The Rehabilitation Center project was further implemented by the foundation and the Company.

The project included two programs:

• Open World, for children with psycho-neurological disorders; and
• On My Own, for disabled children with cerebral palsy or musculoskeletal disorders.

The Company’s All Together volunteer movement continues its activities. The Company’s collective bargaining agreement provides for a paid day off to participate in charity campaigns at social institutions.

The main focus areas of the volunteering movement traditionally center around assistance to orphans and children with various diseases, children in the care of orphanages and rehabilitation centers, the elderly, and veterans.

The landmark events held by the movement participants include:

• Participation in the Memory Garden campaign. Our employees, local school students, and volunteers planted trees to commemorate those who died in the Great Patriotic War;
• Tree of Wonders New Year event. Employees sent warm wishes to the children in the care of the Noginsk orphanage and presented New Year’s gifts to children; and
• Volunteer weekend at the Save Me animal protection center. Employees of NOVATEK-Chelyabinsk teamed up with children from an orphanage to help clean up the enclosures and stock up food for the animals in the shelter.

The Company takes care to see that children in the regions where it operates enjoy their right to childhood and strives to provide assistance to orphans while also supporting other activities for children:

• financing the repair of Chelyabinsk Boarding School No. 13 and the Aistenok Child Care Center and organizing a vacation for children at a children’s health resort in Anapa;
• conducting a regional children drawing contest;
• events as part of the national #TogetherBrighter competition for creativity, design, and research;
• charitable assistance to the Hope festival of creativity in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region;
• preparation of the Last Bell event for indigenous children; and
• financial assistance for a sightseeing trip to Sabetta for the finalists of the Big Break contest.

The Company made a donation to procure a year’s worth of medical supplies and pay for medical services for children at the Kolomna (Schurovo) Most Holy Trinity Church’s Center for the Social Rehabilitation of Children and provided financing to rebuild the administrative building of the foster home’s petting zoo after a fire.

The NOVATEK-Veteran social protection foundation provides industry retirees with quarterly financial assistance, allocates lump-sum benefits, pays for medical treatment and medicines, organizes health resort treatment and rehabilitation, and provides other types of assistance needed. The foundation also cooperates with regional organizations that arrange leisure activities for pensioners:

• the Yamal Longevity project, featuring a series of leisure classes in fine arts and clay modeling;
• the Golden Hands exhibition, featuring the works of program participants alongside the creative works of other pensioners; and
• the Geologist cultural and sports complex, welcoming pensioners to the swimming pool and the fitness room for group exercises.