PRACTICES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA TO SUPPORT STUDENT VOLUNTEERISM DURING THE COVID-19

Abstract

For the first time in modern history, the coronavirus pandemic has become a global challenge that most economic and social institutions in all countries are involved in one way or another in the fight against it. The volunteer activities of citizens, students, corporate volunteers, and volunteers from nonprofit organizations have become one of society's responses to this challenge. This chapter outlines the basic outline of university student participation in volunteer activities during the pandemic in our country and abroad. In order to study the practices of Central Asian universities, a series of interviews was conducted with the heads of volunteer centers at leading universities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and an analysis of media resources was conducted on the basis of Medialogy