Students of the College of Information Technologies and Economics of KBSU paid tribute to the victims of the tragedy in Beslan

Participants of the charitable volunteer movement «Day of Kindness» of the College of Information Technologies and Economics of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov visited school No. 1 in the city of Beslan (North Ossetia), where tragic events took place in 2004 — hostage-taking committed by terrorists on the morning of September 1 during a solemn assembly.

«The main goal of the Day of Kindness movement is to educate and awaken social initiative among students. This year, KIET volunteers have already held a number of socially significant events, including a visit to the Malyutka orphanage and a boarding school for the elderly and disabled. The college continues to increase the scale of events, trying not to stop in the development of the volunteer movement», — explained the deputy chairman of the student council Ibragim Nagoev.

The organizer of the trip to Beslan was the Republican Children’s and Youth Public Organization of Volunteers of the KBR «Help Your Neighbor» together with its leader Alim Sizhazhev. From KITiE, the students were accompanied by the director of the college, Zalina Etueva, and the deputy director for educational work, Amina Volova. Throughout the excursion day, the children were accompanied and told about the tragedy of 2004 by the teacher, director of the school museum Nadezhda Gurieva and history teacher Ibragim Bagaev. For the rest of their lives, students will remember a visit to the memorial cemetery «City of Angels» in Beslan, where 266 of the 334 hostages who died at school on September 3, 2004 are buried. The head of the college, Zalina Etueva, shared her impressions of the trip:

«I am very grateful for the opportunity to visit School No. 1 in Beslan together with the students of our college. This event is a great loss not only for Ossetia, but for all of us. It is very scary to realize that the lives of children who had a bright future could end so suddenly. I believe that it is necessary to bring schoolchildren and students here, because this is how you can tell your child about the terrible consequences of terrorism in the most accessible way».

Alim Sizhazhev is sure that such trips reduce the number of people who keep evil in their souls and are capable of inhuman crimes. «May such grief never happen in any corner of the world», — concluded the head of the KBR volunteers.