DUSHANBE, February 5, 2013, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik migration service agency’s office in Russia arranged a meeting of representatives of Tajik Diaspora and labor migrants with representatives of the public association, Physicians to Children, in St. Petersburg.

According to the Migration Service press service, the main objective of the meeting was in informing Tajik labor migrants of projects being implemented by Physicians to Children.  One of those projects reportedly provides for providing free medical aid to children of labor migrants.

The meeting participants included Konstantin Zakharov, project coordinator, Physicians to Children, Alikhon Roziqzoda, representative of Tajik migration service agency’s office in Russia, and Bakhtibek Berdov, chairperson of the Pamir public association also member of the Public Council at Russian Federal Migration Service’s Office for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast.

Established by a group of physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists and teachers in 2001, the St. Petersburg-based Physicians to Children is dedicated to providing assistance to children and families finding themselves in difficult living situation.