People's Artist of the Russian Federation Roldugin took part in the "Wish Tree" campaign

On Thursday, December 19, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Artistic Director of the St. Petersburg House of Music Sergey Roldugin took part in the New Year's event "The Wishing Tree" and took down cards with children's wishes from the Christmas tree in the Nevsky Town Hall.

The artist will fulfill the dreams of three children from St. Petersburg: nine-year-old Semyon, who asked for a scooter, one-year-old Vasilina, who dreams of a toy mini-orchestra, and 12-year-old Pavel, who wants a portable game console. The children will see their wishes come true before the year 2025 arrives.

This year "Wish Tree" is held in St. Petersburg for the tenth time, and for all these years more than 7 thousand children's wishes have been fulfilled. Of them 1.7 thousand will be realized this year, it remains to find those willing to fulfill 35 more. Anyone can join the campaign, it can be done through the website of the Charitable Foundation for Family and Childhood Culture or at New Year fairs in St. Petersburg.

Within the framework of the "Tree of Wishes" people help children who have disabilities, are brought up in a poor family with many children or are in a difficult life situation. It is important that for the second year already at the action wishes are fulfilled not only for little residents of St. Petersburg, but also for children from its sister city Mariupol in the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR).

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