Career
They now have three daughters — Dariga, Dinara and Aliya — and as well as six grandchildren and a great granddaughter. Nazarbayeva is the President of Bobek, an International Children"s Foundation, which she founded in 1992 soon after the country became independent. In 1997 she launched the first National Children"s Rehabilitation Center and the "South.O.S. Children"s Villages of Kazakhstan" which are family villages for orphans.
These consist of several houses built together in a group where many children live in one house with several caretakers.
Nazarbaeva"s plans for the children"s villages enable the orphaned children to grow up in a family atmosphere.