Funds raised from this year's event will benefit the National Paralympic Committee of Kazakhstan and will be used to help support the country's Paralympic athletes as they compete in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

Since 2006, 49 teams from across the energy sector have committed and raised over $150,000 for the National Paralympic Committee of Kazakhstan. This money helped fund the Kazakhstan National Paralympic Games in July 2007 - a key event for the National Paralympic athletes, in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

The International Paralympics Mission Statement is as follows:

“To Enable Paralympics Athletes to Achieve Sporting Excellence and Inspire and Excite the World".

Each word in the Vision has a clear meaning in defining the ultimate aim of the International Paralympics Committee (IPC):

• To enable: this is the primary role of the IPC as an organization: To create the conditions for athlete empowerment through self-determination
• Paralympic athletes: the primary focus of IPC's activities, in the context of Paralympic athletes, is the development of all athletes from initiation to elite level
• To achieve sporting excellence: the goal of a sports centred organization 
• To inspire and excite the world: the external result is our contribution to a better world for all people with a disability. To achieve this, relations with external organizations and the promotion of the Paralympic Movement as a whole are of prime importance.