A sponsor can adopt an elderly person for 15 euro a month; this amount will help provide clothing, food, medical care, and other important necessities.
But because of the breakup of the Soviet trade bloc and loss of markets, the abandonment of subsidies and the suddenly higher prices of gas and oil the country, which itself has hardly any natural resources, ended up in an economic crisis.
At the same time the cost of living was growing and many citizens migrated in search of work, leaving their elderly permanently or without means of survival.
In 1999 Babushka Adoption foundation was established, with financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to help the most vulnerable elderly in Kyrgyzstan.
In 2015 Kyrgyzstan participated in the Eurasian Economic Union with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Armenia, but unfortunately this did not bring the expected export growth.