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Where a student lives shouldn’t decide what they can learn.

Ayala Club is a student-led volunteer organization in Almaty, Kazakhstan. We bring young people together to widen access to education, support underserved communities, and turn the willingness to help into lasting impact.

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Founded
21 January 2026
Based in
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Community
~150 student volunteers
Began at
Tamos Education

Young people don’t have to wait to make a difference.

Ayala Club is a student-founded, student-led volunteer organization based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It began at Tamos Education in January 2026 and brings students together to widen access to educational opportunities and support communities that need it.

Our mission

At Ayala, our mission is to empower young people to create meaningful and lasting change in their communities. We strive to expand access to educational opportunities, support underserved communities, and foster a culture of compassion, leadership, and social responsibility. Through student-led initiatives, volunteer programs, and collaborative partnerships, we aim to bridge educational and social divides, inspire civic engagement, and transform the willingness to help into tangible, lasting impact.

What we do
Educational outreach, fundraising, charitable initiatives and community service, planned and carried out by students.
Who takes part
Students. Around 150 young volunteers give their time, knowledge and energy, in an organization led by students themselves.
Who we work for
Students at underfunded rural schools, children reached through our charitable work, and the communities around them.

It began with a visit to a rural school.

Ayala’s founder, Danial Yessentay, visited an underfunded rural school near Almaty. The contrast with his own school, Tamos Education, was hard to ignore: in resources, and in the opportunities within students’ reach.

It made one thing uncomfortably clear. What a student could learn depended heavily on where they lived and which school they attended.

On 21 January 2026 he founded Ayala Club to bring together students willing to contribute their time, knowledge and energy. The idea was never that a group of students could fix educational inequality alone, but that young people don’t need to wait until adulthood to start contributing.

  1. The Rural Schools Initiative begins

    Danial Yessentay starts the Rural Schools Initiative as an independent project, connecting student volunteers with students at underfunded rural schools.

  2. Ayala Club is founded

    Danial founds Ayala to bring together students willing to give their time, knowledge and energy. The Rural Schools Initiative continues as part of Ayala’s work.

  3. School charity fair

    Ayala’s first fundraising initiative: a student-led charity fair at school that raises approximately US$2,000.

  4. Charity event with the Samgau Bilim Foundation

    Ayala volunteers and the Samgau Bilim Foundation hold a charitable event for around 45 children.

  5. Today

    A community of around 150 students

    Ayala is organized into Executive, PR & Media and Projects departments, supported by its volunteer community.

  6. Next

    More schools, more support

    Ayala aims to extend the Rural Schools Initiative to ten or more schools. This is a goal, not yet a result.

The work so far.

Ayala’s initiatives cover education, charity and community. They are organized by our Projects Department and carried out by volunteers.

Educational outreach · Ongoing

Rural Schools Initiative

An educational outreach project that connects student volunteers and educational resources with students at underfunded rural schools, to reduce the gap between what different schools can offer.

Founded independently by Danial Yessentay in October 2025, about three months before Ayala existed. Since January 2026 it has continued under Ayala.

students reached
110
underfunded rural schools involved
4 or more
From Ayala volunteers, with support from Tamos Education facultyTo students at four or more underfunded rural schools, with more to come

What the initiative provides

  • Online lessonsRemote classes delivered by volunteers.
  • Academic tutoringOngoing support with schoolwork.
  • Higher education guidanceHelp understanding paths beyond school.
  • Opportunity awarenessInformation about programs students can apply for.
  • DebateInstruction and practice in debate.
A volunteer smiling beside a laptop that shows an online lesson with about a dozen students on video.
An online lesson for the Rural Schools Initiative.

Fundraising · Completed · Early February 2026

School charity fundraising fair

A student-led fair at school that brought students together around a shared charitable goal and showed what student fundraising can achieve.

approximately $2,000raised

Charity · Community · Completed · Late May 2026

Charity event with the Samgau Bilim Foundation

A charitable event organized by Ayala volunteers together with the Samgau Bilim Foundation, built around supporting and engaging the children who took part.

approximately 45children took part

About thirty children holding gift bags and paintings, seated on tiered benches in a classroom at Tamos Education.
A group of boys in a sports hall with a man wearing a Samgau Bilim Foundation T-shirt.
Charity event with the Samgau Bilim Foundation, Late May 2026.

Impact, counted carefully.

Ayala is young, so these figures are early ones. Each measures something different: membership, students reached, event participation or money raised. They are reported separately and should not be added together.

Membersstudents in Ayala’s volunteer community
approximately 150
Educationstudents reached through the Rural Schools Initiative
110
Educationunderfunded rural schools involved in the initiative
4 or more
Charitychildren at the charity event with Samgau Bilim
approximately 45
Fundraisingraised at the school charity fair
approximately $2,000

~ marks an approximate figure. Rural Schools Initiative figures include its work since October 2025, when it began as an independent project before joining Ayala.

In volunteers’ words.

I initially joined Ayala because I thought volunteering would look good on my college applications. But once I got involved, my perspective completely changed. Working with students from different backgrounds made me realize how unequal access to educational opportunities can be, even within our own communities. I began to see that I could actually help bridge that gap. What started as something for my résumé became something I genuinely cared about, and I discovered just how much of an impact we can make when we give our time and knowledge to others.

SabinaVolunteer since March 2026

The people behind Ayala.

Ayala is run by students, from the leadership team to the volunteers who show up for each initiative.

Ten members of the Ayala team standing in a row outside the Tamos Education building in Almaty.
The Ayala team outside Tamos Education, Almaty.

  • Founder & President

    Danial Yessentay

    A student at Tamos Education, Danial started the Rural Schools Initiative in October 2025 and founded Ayala Club in January 2026. He leads the organization as its President.

  • Vice-President

    Yasmin Minamova

    Also a student at Tamos Education, Yasmin joined Ayala as Vice-President in March 2026.

How Ayala is organized

  1. Executive Department

    Overall leadership, strategic direction, coordination and management.

  2. PR & Media Department

    Communications, public relations, media, outreach and Ayala’s public presence.

  3. Projects Department

    Plans, coordinates and runs volunteer initiatives and community projects.

  4. Volunteers

    Around 150 students who take part in educational programs, charitable activities and outreach.

Who we’ve worked with

  • Samgau Bilim FoundationCollaborated with Ayala on a charitable event for around 45 children in late May 2026.
  • Tamos EducationThe Almaty school where Ayala began. Tamos faculty have supported the Rural Schools Initiative.

What we’re working toward.

These are goals, not results. None of the plans below has been secured yet; they describe where Ayala wants to go next.

4+ rural schools involved in the Rural Schools Initiative today10+ schools is the aspiration

  1. Expand the Rural Schools Initiative

    Reach more underserved rural schools, with ten or more schools as a possible target.

  2. Build a larger fundraising program

    Create a more extensive program to fund educational volunteering and community projects.

  3. Engage corporate supporters

    Explore fundraising collaborations and sponsorship with companies listed on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE).

  4. Make the programs last

    Use funding, volunteer capacity and partnerships to make Ayala’s educational programs more sustainable and accessible.

Join the work.

Whether you’re a student who wants to help, a school that could use support, or an organization that wants to work with us, there’s a way in.

  • Students

    Want to volunteer? Apply through our form and tell us how you’d like to help.

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  • Schools and educators

    If your students could benefit from volunteer tutoring, online lessons or guidance, get in touch.

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  • Partners and companies

    Interested in supporting Ayala’s educational programs or fundraising? We’d like to hear from you.

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