The administration of one of the Novosibirsk schools for children with disabilities announced the collection of empty cans, from which it is planned to make dugout candles for the Russian army. It is reported by Taiga.info.
The ad says that these “may be containers for peas, corn, condensed milk, olives”, clean, without lids and labels. They also collect unwanted candles and cinders.
According to regional media reports, making dugout candles for soldiers fighting in Ukraine has become a common practice in Russian schools. So, UlanMedia writes that students from a rural boarding school in Buryatia learned how to make such candles. The school administration told journalists that "these candles are now necessary in difficult weather conditions for our soldiers for lighting, heating, cooking and for drying uniforms." All the necessary materials (cans, wax and corrugated cardboard) the children had to bring from home.
"Yar News" says that in one of the schools of Pereslavl-Zalessky, children made 150 dugout candles. “We make candles with children after school, at class hours, during breaks. We twist the cardboard into a jar, insert a wick. Teachers and parents melt wax or paraffin and pour it in,” a local teacher told reporters.
Novosti Bryansk reports that pupils of Bryansk Sunday schools made 1,500 blanks for dugout candles. Moskovsky Komsomolets writes that schoolchildren in Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva, are doing the same.
Sota said that a deputy from Podolsk near Moscow, Yevgeny Isaev, donated a thousand empty cans to the needs of the war. Isaev is a millionaire, the owner of the Russian Fish World company, which specializes in the manufacture of canned fish.