26.03.2025

The Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF) and AYALA Foundation have joined their efforts to provide children in the Solnyshko Center with not just new kitchen equipment, but a real place of home warmth and care. Thanks to this initiative, children with difficult destiny have the opportunity to feel the cozy family atmosphere.

Home is not just walls, this is an atmosphere of love, comfort and care. For the children of the Solnyshko Center, the orphanage has become their home where they learn to trust the world again every day. Children with difficult destinies live here: toddlers and teenagers who faced betrayal, poverty and loss of close people. Some of them came to the center without a name, without documents and without a date of birth. Today, they have not only names and official papers, but something much more important — the feeling of a family where they are not alone.

Kitchen is the heart of the house

It is always warm where food is prepared. This cozy corner filled with the aromas of homemade pastries and hot tea, gives children a feeling of safety and love. That is why it is so important that the kitchen at the Solnyshko Center is equipped with every necessary thing to prepare tasty and healthy meals.

The Herbalife Family Foundation and AYALA Charity Foundation donated modern kitchen equipment to the center. Now the facility, where 60 children live permanently, has new appliances that make cooking faster, more convenient and diverse.

«In our center, we strive not only to provide children with everything they need, but also to create a caring and trusting environment. In ordinary families, love is manifested through the smells from the kitchen, through anticipation of a warm dinner with family members. With this new equipment, we can cook for our children faster, more comfortably and, most importantly, offer them high-quality and diverse meals that they could have at home,” Denis Lochukova, Director of Solnyshko Center, says.

With the funds donated by Herbalife Family Foundation, AYALA Foundation purchased a dishwasher, an oven, a frying pan, two refrigerators, a planetary mixer, a deep fryer, blenders, steam pots for meat dumplings, food storage container and pancake pans. This equipment was not just an update to the kitchen — the center’s personnel can now take care of children more heartwarming and cook the children’s favorite dishes more often.

Life-Changing Charity

Since 1994, the Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF) helps children around the world. In 2024, 200 thousand children in 180 countries received the help they needed through the CASA Herbalife program.

«The CASA Herbalife program is one of our key charitable initiatives aimed at providing good nutrition to children in difficult life situations. This program is specific because our Independent Partners actively support it — not only financially, they personally participate in volunteer projects. They become real conductors of good deeds, helping children around the world to have not only good food, but also the care that every child needs so much,» Igor Goncharov, Head of Business Development for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, says.

For 18 years, AYALA Foundation helps children who cannot grow up in their own families. By creating spaces for creativity, development and professional development, the foundation opens doors to a new life for children. «If at least one of these spaces changed the fate of at least one child for the better, it means that our work was not in vain. We thank Herbalife for the good changes for Solnyshko Center and all its students,» Aidan Suleimenova, Founder and President of the AYALA Foundation, says.

The warmth of a home starts in the kitchen. And real warmth starts with kind hearts. And when business and charity join together to help children, a real miracle is born, capable of changing someone’s life forever.