Founded in 1926, the Russian Children's Welfare Society focuses on improving the lives of children at risk in Russia by funding effective and innovative projects.
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OUR PROGRAM AREAS
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Orphanges and Homeless Shelters:
Our goal is to enable orphanages to meet basic needs, and to promote comprehensive programs that help orphans develop into healthy and independent adults. We support shelters that provide medical care, therapy, vocational training, food & shelter, as well as training programs for foster families.
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Medical Programs:
RCWS improves the lives of thousands of children at risk in Russia by funding their medical care and supplemental training of the doctors who serve them.
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Scholarship Project:
In 2003, RCWS launched a scholarship program to help orphans to attain higher education. To date, it has been enormously successful, providing a complete support structure to students as they transition from living in an orphanage to independent life. Currently, 42 orphans receive RCWS scholarship and enrolled at colleges and universities in the Pskov, Yaroslavl, Velikiy Novgorod and Moscow regions.
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Rehabilitation Centers for Disabled Children:
Treatment of children with mental or physical disabilities is limited in Russia. RCWS continues to support rehabilitation centers that provide these children with educational activities, vocational training, legal advice, art therapy sessions, psychological assistance, and sport and music lessons to children with disabilities.
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Annual New Year's Party for Orphans in Moscow:
What began as a modest venture less than 10 years ago has grown into very important and highly anticipated celebration for children in Russia. In December 2008, with our donors' help, RCWS was able to bring Christmas to over 2,000 orphans and sick children living in Russia.
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OUR SUCCESS STORIES
Julia Timofeeva has never seen her parents and grew up at the orphanage for children with disabilities in Belskoye Ustie of the Pskov region in Russia. Read more |
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What Your Donation Can Do...
$50 would provide lunches for one child at a school during one full academic year.
$100 will cover a blood sugar monitoring device that will serve 25 orphans with diabetes.
$150 will provide a new bed for a child at an orphanage. Many orphans sleep on beds that were purchased 20-25 years ago and no longer meet sanitary or safety requirements.
$250 will cover a sewing machine for an orphanage allowing teens to make their own clothing and obtain vocational training skills.
$500 will cover an annual supply of vitamins for 50 orphans.
$1,500 will cover an industrial washing machine for an orphanage that takes care of over 100 children, where laundry is still done by hands.
$2,000 will cover an annual scholarship for an orphanage graduate. Learn more...
$2,500 will restore the life of a child with severe facial deformity. There is a waiting list at the Moscow Center for Children's Maxillofacial Surgery for children in need of reconstructive surgeries. Learn more...
$10,000 will cover a minivan for an orphanage in a rural area, providing kids with an opportunity to visit distant educational, cultural and/or medical facilities.
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RCWS Board member's trip to Russia
Sam Harding, RCWS Board member, traveled to Russia to evaluate some of our many programs in Moscow, Pskov, Velikiy Novgorod and Yaroslavl.
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