The “Freilehe Kinder children's creative and educational camp-festival took place on July 1-5 in Karaganda (Republic of Kazakhstan) with the organizational aid of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. The festival, sponsored by the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, gathered over 180 children from all over Kazakhstan. This is the seventh “Freilehe Kinder” - "the Sabbat festival," as the President of the Association of Jewish Communities of Kazakhstan, EAJC General Council member Alexander Baron noted.

The event included a song and dance festival with theater elements, different workshops and team-building games, which teach children teamwork, principles of mutual aid, all the while allowing them to learn the history and traditions of the Jewish people.

The children took a year to prepare song, dance, and theatric numbers for the gala concert that took place in the Karaganda Stanislavsky Theater. Each of these numbers demonstrated the full extent to which Jewish community centers help members fo the Jewish community (in this case – children) in self-realization.

According to EAJC General Council member Alexander Baron, "'Freilehe Kinder' is a unique event in Kazakhstan, which combines a musical festival with an educational and developing element. The festival is of huge significance for the development of the Jewish community as a whole and for each child in particular. This is a wonderful opportunity for children to gain new knowledge and professional skills, to make friends, and, of course, to perform on the bug stage, thanking our Jewish community with their songs and dances."