Igor Makovskiy: more than 600 elderly people received targeted assistance from volunteer organizations of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga Region

The volunteer movement of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga Region is gaining strength. To date, volunteer headquarters have been created in all 20 regions where the companies are present; they provide assistance not only to employees of the companies and veterans, but also to all residents of the regions of their activity who need it. The subject of special attention of voluntary assistants is industry veterans, participants in the Great Patriotic War, rear workers, prisoners of concentration camps and residents of besieged Leningrad.

The volunteer headquarters of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga include about 400 people. They are equipped with all necessary protective equipment and have been briefed on the rules of volunteering in the context of countering coronavirus infection. The company’s management assists them in equipping, transport and strictly monitors compliance with sanitary protection standards in providing assistance to those in need.

During April, more than 70 actions were carried out by the volunteer regional headquarters of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga Region. About 600 elderly people received targeted assistance, including 480 energy veterans.

“The creation of volunteer crews has become another important area of great work on social support for the company’s employees and industry veterans. Volunteers of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga Region buy food and medicine for the elderly, help them solve various pressing issues in conditions of self-isolation. Over the past few weeks alone, they prepared and delivered over 750 sets of food and essentials. Currently, the energy volunteers are delivering gifts to the company’s veterans - participants in the Great Patriotic War and home front workers - by the 9th of May. The company’s management appreciates their work and provides the volunteer movement with all the necessary support,” emphasized Igor Makovskiy, General Director of Rosseti Centre - the managing organization of Rosseti Centre and Volga Region.

At the initiative of the volunteer movement, a hotline was set up in all branches of the electric grid companies, through which calls from veteran-employees are received. In addition, volunteers call their former colleagues themselves and offer help. Each veteran of the enterprise is given a memo with the necessary contact numbers by which they can ask for help.