The organizers of the Fashion 4.0 Festival fulfilled the New Year dreams of little Ivanovo residents

On the eve of the old New Year, the visit of unusual guests was a real surprise for the pupils of the kindergarten of the combined type No. 33 in the city of Ivanovo. The rector of the Ivanovo Polytechnic University Yevgeny Rumyantsev visited the guys with his colleagues, and even with gifts.

Together with Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, members of the creative team of the All-Russian Festival "Fashion 4.0 - Evolution", which won the first grant competition of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, visited the kindergarten. During the New Year holidays, the organizers and partners of the festival held a charity event "Wish Tree" and fulfilled the New Year's wishes of little Ivanovo residents with certain health problems or from large families.

Rector of the IVGPU, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Entrepreneurs of the Textile and Clothing Industry of the Ivanovo Region, Deputy of the Ivanovo City Duma Evgeny Rumyantsev recalls:

“The New Year Trees of Wishes, which are taking place all over Russia, are part of the All-Russian charitable project Dream with Me, initiated by Vladimir Putin three years ago. Seriously ill children, children from low-income families or children left without parents at all write letters to Santa Claus, and feel

each of us is capable of being a good magician and giving children a sense of joy. So among the team of the Fashion 4.0 - Evolution festival there were many who are ready to make a New Year's gift for an unfamiliar child at their own expense.

We add that the leaves with childhood dreams were carefully studied and hidden in Christmas tree decorations, and on the morning of January 14, roller skates and designers, dolls, soft and radio-controlled toys, tickets to the circus, theater and zoo, sets of a young artist, phones and tablets found their little owners . Forty-one pupils of kindergarten No. 33 received New Year's gifts. After that, another pleasant surprise awaited the children - sleigh rides with Santa Claus himself!

Together with the rector of the IVGPU Evgeny Rumyantsev, the wishes made by the children were fulfilled by: the head of the information resources and communications department Alla Novikova, the head of the department of educational and social work Tatiana Maksimova, the chairman of the trade union committee of university students Alexander Gavrilov.

One of the first to join the campaign was the first Vice-Rector for Development Elena Nikiforova, Chief Accountant Olga Makalova, Head of the Department of Garment Design Viktor Kuzmichev, student activists of the Regional Volunteer Center of the IVGPU.

The permanent business partners of the university - Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts of Moscow State University named after M.V. M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Mikhail Treshchalin, Marketing Director of JSC KhBK "Shuyskie calico" Ekaterina Matrosova, Deputy General Director of TexHolding LLC Alexei Konov, and Academic Secretary of the IVGPU Natalia Gruzintseva, Head of the Department of Costume Design and Textiles named after. N.G. Mizonova Olga Surikova, head of the Engineering Center Nadezhda Kornilova, associate professors Albina Malinskaya, Anastasia Kornilovich, Yulia Shammut, Natalia Sakharova, Maria Milovzorova, Ksenia Demyanenko.