Volunteers' support

Shag Navstrechu wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thank you, friends, for your support of disabled children from the orphanage 4 in Pavlovsk. Your support helped us to compensate the work of one volunteer.

The end of the year was bright and joyful: volunteers and children visited the workshop on how to make candles, attended the planetarium and the library.

We also had long walks in Aleksandrovsky and Pavlovsky parks enjoying the warm winter.

But the most memorable event of the winter was November holidays in a city. For a week children lived in Saint Petersburg and visited many interesting places and events and also managed to live an ordinary life outside the orphanage.

Our children will also remember December for different workshops and events: kids had workshops on floristics, had fun on trampolines and attended an interesting exhibition “Roerich Alive”.

Genia Ozerova – is one of the most experienced volunteers of the organization. This is what she writes in her report:

“At the very end of the fall we visited the planetarium, I was there with Darina. Darina loved the place although she was lost at first when the lights went off. But then, I helped her to spot the place to look at and she watched the sky and was really happy.”

Our volunteers pay lots of attention to our city holidays and Genia always take kids from her group to live in a “different” world. These camps and holidays help children to gain the experience they haven’t had in years because children find themselves in a whole new surrounding with people who care about them, where they can make friends and learn skills they don’t have an opportunity to learn in the orphanage.

Here is what Genia writes about the holidays passed:

“This time I took Ksusha on holidays. Together we were in many places – in a theatre, zoo, in a museum for children etc. Ksusha loved it! She watched the theatrical performance with such an interest! In a zoo Ksusha mostly liked animals who jumped or run, slow ones didn’t impress her much:). Ksusha is a very sweet kid – she’s open and very communicative, she makes friends everywhere!”

Only love and care can make children change and develop their skills. This is why the “Volunteers’ support” project was created. We thank everyone for the support given to our fosterlings.