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Support Groups
We partner with project leaders who run groups for orphaned mothers and their children living in poverty. We also run groups for orphans still in the orphanage system.
Group leaders teach life skills, provide emotional and practical support, and meet basic needs. Outings are organised for younger orphans to experience time away from their orphanage buildings.
Project leaders make themselves available, stepping in as the parents these orphans never had.
The need
Orphans leaving Russian orphanages at age 16 are unprepared and ill-equipped for life outside institutions.
According to available data on Russian orphanage leavers, 10% commit suicide, 40% go to prison, and 40% become alcoholics and/or drug addicts.
All those we support live on incomes so low that, without extra help, they would be forced to choose between paying for utilities or food.
What your donations do
Donations enable leaders to dedicate their time to support. Funding provides the regular monthly bursaries, for our orphan mums, activities, resources (including food), transport, premises, and more for the younger groups.
Orphan mum Liza was raised in an orphanage after being neglected by her absent mother and alcoholic father. As a young adult, she experienced two failed relationships, marked by alcoholism and violence. She carries emotional wounds and lives below the poverty line. She benefits from financial aid, as well as encouragement and guidance from her support group.
”Thank you to our sponsors and friends who make it possible for us to meet and talk about our problems. Thank you for all that you do for us and our kids!” - Liza
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