At a charity auction evening at the Courtyard Marriott in Irkutsk, 191 thousand rubles were raised for the Ivano Matrenin Children's Clinical Hospital. Guests took part in an auction and fair with over 300 handmade items, and the most expensive lot was a watercolor painting by a sick boy Sad Clown, sold for 19 thousand rubles. The funds will equip a ward for abandoned children, and the evening ended the Youth 3D marathon, which held over 50 charity events in three months.

The day before, on Monday, February 9, a charity evening auction was held at the Courtyard Marriott hotel at 15 Chkalova Street. The evening, organized by the MBU “City,” the Public Relations Department of the Irkutsk City Administration, and the Association of Event Organizers of Irkutsk, became the final stage of the “Youth 3D” charity marathon. During the charity evening, 191,000 rubles were raised for the Ivano-Matreninskaya Children’s Clinical Hospital. About 100 people attended the event at the Courtyard Marriott hotel, taking part in the charity auction and the sale fair of items made by caring residents, employees of public organizations, and children from social institutions. More than 300 items were put up for sale, priced from 100 rubles: wooden sculptures, knitted items, embroidered paintings, souvenirs molded from salt dough, and so on.
At the charity auction, 21 lots were sold, including souvenirs made by children, such as paintings in watercolor, batik, felt, grains, and colored sand. The most expensive lot during the bidding was a watercolor painting by a boy with cancer, “Sad Clown.” It sold for 19,000 rubles.
The money raised as part of the charity evening, from tickets, auction lots, and handmade items, was donated to equip a ward for abandoned children at the Ivano-Matreninskaya Children’s Clinical Hospital. In addition, various organizations independently provide assistance to the project. For example, at one company, employees raised money for the hospital, and at another, the children’s institution was given a certificate for replacing a window in a ward.
We remind you that the “Youth 3D” charity marathon took place over the last three months of the past, 2014, in Irkutsk. The marathon was organized by the Irkutsk City Administration with the participation of volunteers. Over the entire course of the marathon, more than 50 charity events were held, aimed at orphaned children and children left without parental care and in difficult life situations. In 2014, more than 20 organizations took part in the marathon, including educational institutions and volunteer groups in Irkutsk, commercial and non-commercial organizations in the city, and volunteer centers. Thanks to caring residents of Irkutsk and sponsors, 1,394 children received New Year’s gifts in 2014. The total value of the gifts then amounted to more than 400,000 rubles.
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk City Administration.