Oktay Aliev — the founder of the Fund
The story and the reasons for creating a Charitable Fund are related to the personal story and experiences of its founder Oktay Aliev:
“On my life journey I have experienced the most unusual and sometimes incredibly acute situations that from the standpoint of ordinary logic defy any explanation.
I was in a car accident where I experienced something unusual. It is a very strange condition, when you see yourself from the outside, and a crowd of panicked people around, and when you do not feel anything: no confusion, no fear, no pain. And only after a short moment all returns to its places– both pain, and fear and despair...
I had to face despair of an incurable disease that obliged me in terms of medicine to leave this world twelve years ago. I turned to the eminent specialists of almost all international clinics in the world, but they all had the same answer: “You will not live long”. I did not like their answer...
I've been scrutinizing my eyes in the mirror and could not believe in the imminent end. It was not fear, I just did not believe, because at that time I hadn’t done anything useful either for my family, or for the people around me. And I wished so much...
Another difficult situation in my life has led me to an injury, which also threatened to take away my life. And in the next life story imprisonment was awaiting for me, when I had to be in captivity as in a cage with tigers, and once again fight for survival...
Of course, my life story is full of various unusual plots, and it is this path that led through pain and suffering that gave certain life experience.
Naturally, I will not describe all my life “movie”, and for what, because each of you have or will have your own. Some of the stories I have described only in order to make it clear, for some reason, why I decided to create a charitable fund. It is this way of life that has given me an opportunity to gain experience, which I had to share.
Only at the moment when a person faces such difficult situations in life, when he feels that his end has approached, he rethinks his whole life, all his values, and not simply reinterprets and drastically changes the vector of his movement. The person is no longer upset with the events that he earlier could not bear, exactly at the last moment they no longer matter. This situation of “the last stop” makes us think about important philosophical questions, namely: what is death, what is the meaning of life?
Only being in captivity, you can fully appreciate freedom. That freedom that every person has, but unfortunately, not everyone can appreciate this very ordinary freedom, when you can go wherever you want, enjoy the sun or greet the dawn, because in captivity you can’t have this.
Concluding the story of the emergence of the Charity Fund, I want to emphasize the most important point, without which this activity is simply impossible. To engage in charity, I had TO BE SURE that I TRULY want to do this. I had a lot of doubts, but now there is complete CERTAINTY that I want to deal with the educational charity work!!! "
Oktay Aliev, the founder of the Fund