Implemented Projects 

  • The Shop of Joys Charity Shop

The Shop of Joys Charity Shop


This is a long-term social project of the Together Charitable Assembly, aimed at attracting funds for charity and drawing public attention to social issues and development of the charity movement.

The Shop of Joys - the first in Moscow real Charity shop, where you can find designer clothing, jewelry, gifts, and where you can bring interesting, but unnecessary things. Shop collects funds for the programs of 32 charitable organizations: to pay for expensive medical treatment of children and adults, to support orphans and people with disabilities, and more.

The Joys Shop stands in the center of Moscow at 13 Vetoshny Pereulok. The shop is open every day except Monday and Thursday, from 12.00 pm (noon) to 8.30 pm.

  • Information and resource center for parents with children afflicted by cerebral palsy

Information and resource center for parents with children afflicted by cerebral palsy

The center helps to raise awareness among parents of children with disabilities about available treatment methods for cerebral palsy, rehabilitation centers that exist in Russia, special kindergartens, schools, libraries of healthcare information, and special sports and wellness clubs.

Our partner, the Kind Heart Charitable Fund, is running this program, which provides free consultations for parents over the phone, as well as online on the program’s resource center website.

 

  • Assistance to orphans in hospitals and orphanages
  • Assistance to orphans in hospitals and orphanages
  • Assistance to orphans in hospitals and orphanages

Assistance to orphans in hospitals and orphanages

This program is all about creating conditions for healthy, full-fledged emotional and mental development of children without parental care in the hospital environment. The program is operated by our partner, the Volunteers to Help Orphans Charitable Foundation in the Davidovo town hospital of the Orekhovo-Zuevsky District of the Moscow Region.

Children left without parental care may stay in hospital for a long time for various reasons. Healthcare professionals carry out only their direct responsibilities for the treatment of the child, and it is obvious that hospital environment does not allow children to develop fully, as they would in the care of their family.

The program provides for a children’s nurse and educator position to be created at the hospital to carry out the full range of procedures and training required for proper psychological and emotional development of the child, including hygiene, proper nutrition, taking walks, and activities that promote development.

The experience of normal, more “natural” communication with adults, the ability to establish an emotional connection with someone should help children to adapt more effectively to a life in an orphanage or in a new family in the future. 

 

  • The Third Age Program

The Third Age Program

The program focuses on helping the elderly to overcome social and psychological barriers, and increase their social activity, their engagement in society. We run this program in cooperation with our partner, the Petersburg Aegis public organization as part of the Third Age voluntary assistance school.

The program is aimed at uniting the elderly, helping them to overcome the age social psychological crises related to self-identity, relationships in the family and in society, to stimulate their social activity. The program provides educational and awareness talks, training sessions, and workshops. Club talks are organized on specific interests, and elderly participants are encouraged to volunteer to care for even older people, children with disabilities, and other people in need of care.

 

  • I and the World Around Me Program
  • I and the World Around Me Program

I and the World Around Me Program

 

The program tackles social adaptation of orphanage students and graduates. We run this program in partnership with the Here and Now Charitable Foundation to Help Orphans.

The program provides for psychological work with orphanages kids, aiming at their successful integration in the modern society. Experienced psychologists organize training sessions, master classes, field sessions, workshops, which enable orphans to develop their communication skills, teach them how to make independent, responsible decisions. In addition, the program provides educational tours of businesses and organizations in order to help children to learn about different professions by getting first-hand experience right in the workplace.

Follow-up for graduates is another important aspect of the program. Orphanage graduates often fail to socialize properly once they find themselves in the great wide world. One of the main reasons for this is that they do not have senior colleagues, friends and mentors they could follow, ask for advice, or emulate. Follow-up for graduates involves building and maintaining a system of constant communication between an adult and a child. By spending time with an adult, exchanging letters with him or her, and by participating in each other's lives, orphanage kids find grown-up friends who help them navigate through life.

 

 

  • Masha Sorina Paintings at Charity Photo Show

Masha Sorina Paintings at Charity Photo Show

Every year the Foundation holds a solo painting exhibition of Masha Sorina, a twelve year old artist, who took to painting to conquer a disease, restore the feeling of fullness of life, and give joy to her friends. Masha was seven years old, when she was hit by illness. She lapsed into a deep coma after a sudden brain haemorrhage. The girl learning to play the violin and piano, a winner of a ballroom dance competition in Moscow had to spend a year in a wheelchair. Yet she rose and learned to walk. She can move her right hand and she can draw. All funds raised from the sale of paintings and objects will be placed in Masha's charity account. This exhibition invites fine art connoisseurs, and those who are generally keen on pictures for children and grown-ups.

  • Show Your Child the Motherland Program

Show Your Child the Motherland Program

 

The program is promoting successful socialization of orphans and children left without parental care, with field trips and activities. We run this program jointly with the Here and Now Charitable Foundation for Helping Orphans.

One of the main problems of children living in orphanages is their nearly complete isolation from the external environment, from society at large. They have little understanding of the world they live and know next to nothing about the country where they were born. In such conditions it is hard to expect them to integrate successfully into broader society after graduation from the orphanage boarding school.

The Show Your Child the Motherland program aims to expand the kids’ horizons, introduce them to the world of art and culture, and improve their communication skills, establish friendships and partnerships between children from orphanages and children living with their parents. To achieve these goals, the program provides guided tours of Moscow, visiting exhibitions, museums, theaters, concerts, visits at various businesses and companies, as well as offers a chance to participate in master classes.

 

 

  • Program “Aiding sick children”

Program “Aiding sick children”

The Foundation transfers funds for treatment of seriously ill children from Russian regions and neighboring countries. The money is used in purchasing medicine and medical equipment for the hospitals, carrying out all necessary tests and studies, courses, therapies and surgeries for the rehabilitation of children as well as covering transportation and hospital stay costs. The Foundation does not provide direct targeted assistance; we work with partner funds specializing in the matter.
  • Information and resource center for parents with children afflicted by cerebral palsy

Information and resource center for parents with children afflicted by cerebral palsy

The center helps to raise awareness among parents of children with disabilities about available treatment methods for cerebral palsy, rehabilitation centers that exist in Russia, special kindergartens, schools, libraries of healthcare information, and special sports and wellness clubs.

Our partner, the Kind Heart Charitable Fund, is running this program, which provides free consultations for parents over the phone, as well as online on the program’s resource center website.

 

  • The Life Path
  • The Life Path

The Life Path

Creating a functional psychological and educational support system for children at all stages of growing up affected by severe disabilities, rare genetic and congenital conditions and autism, as well as ensuring their maximum integration into a learning environment. The program is run in Orenburg by our partner, the Prikosnoveniye (Healing Touch) Centre.

The program provides comprehensive assistance to families with children suffering from different disabilities, which includes: diagnosis of the child’s development level, assessment of the child’s physiological condition, support in interactions with educational and healthcare institutions, design of individual educational programs in short school-day programs at differentiated training classrooms for all levels of skill and ability, design of a comprehensive rehabilitation program for the child, creation of parent support groups, and encouragement and promotion for parents’ initiatives, and many other helpful things.

 

  • The Take a Break Program
  • The Take a Break Program
  • The Take a Break Program

The Take a Break Program

It is the organization of recreational activities for children and young people with multiple disabilities. The program is run by our partner, the Center for Curative Teaching. Every Sunday, a group of professionals and volunteers meets at the Center for Curative Teaching to engage children in a variety of games, carpentry classes, and ceramics workshops. Children practice their theatrical skits, perform creative group work, prepare and hold tea parties. These sessions help children and teenagers with severe disabilities gain new social skills, to feel their skills and abilities, to communicate with each other, and simply find joy in their lives. During this time, their parents have an opportunity to rest.

 

  • Program for Preparing Special-Needs Kids for School
  • Program for Preparing Special-Needs Kids for School

Program for Preparing Special-Needs Kids for School

 

The program is designed to help special-needs preschool children to build the essential social and learning skills and prepare for successful adaptation to grade school. The program is conducted by our partner, the Center for Curative Teaching, and is designed to last one academic year.

Teachers lead group lessons, and teacher assistants participate in implementation of the program. During the lessons, assistants sit next to children at their desks, explain what is going on, repeat the instructions, and help teachers do their job. Private lessons may be offered depending on the needs and abilities of each child.

During the program, children are observed by a neurologist and/or a psycho-neurologist. Children who have successfully mastered the program enroll in a grade school or the kindergarten. New groups of children, as well as teachers and doctors assigned to work on the program are approved in April and May each year.The program is conducting a free initial examination of children to determine the causes of their disabilities. The program is run by our partner, the Center for Curative Teaching.

 

  • The Patient Initial Assessment Program

The Patient Initial Assessment Program

The program is conducting a free initial examination of children to determine the causes of their disabilities. The program is run by our partner, the Center for Curative Teaching.

Typically, initial assessment of patients is performed by two specialist doctors who examine the child and conduct a detailed interview with his or her parents. This helps to tailor diagnostic techniques and to analyze the child's problems from different points of view. For example, a pathologist’s and a psychologist’s assessments would often complement each other, helping to create a more complete picture of the disorders affecting a child. Talking with the parents helps to glean the information needed for designing a tailor-made rehabilitation program.

The patient initial assessment program makes it possible to provide primary care to all who need it, regardless of family income, citizenship, or the presence or absence of registration at a specific address (which is a requirement for access to many services in Russia, including healthcare).

 

  • All-Around Family Support Center
  • All-Around Family Support Center

All-Around Family Support Center

 

The Center is designed to help out foster families and families in crisis. It is run by our partner, Pro-Mama Independent Non-Profit Center.

The purpose of the program is to provide for needs of children, help them adapt, ensure their consistent, stable education within the family, preventing returns of kids to orphanages, as well as fulfilling special requests from families. The program involves preparing potential future surrogate parents, providing professional support to foster families, psychological counseling, seminars and trainings. Art therapy became available in 2012.

 

 

  • Show Your Child the Motherland Program

Show Your Child the Motherland Program

 

The program is promoting successful socialization of orphans and children left without parental care, with field trips and activities. We run this program jointly with the Here and Now Charitable Foundation for Helping Orphans.

One of the main problems of children living in orphanages is their nearly complete isolation from the external environment, from society at large. They have little understanding of the world they live and know next to nothing about the country where they were born. In such conditions it is hard to expect them to integrate successfully into broader society after graduation from the orphanage boarding school.

The Show Your Child the Motherland program aims to expand the kids’ horizons, introduce them to the world of art and culture, and improve their communication skills, establish friendships and partnerships between children from orphanages and children living with their parents. To achieve these goals, the program provides guided tours of Moscow, visiting exhibitions, museums, theaters, concerts, visits at various businesses and companies, as well as offers a chance to participate in master classes.

 

 

  • The Resource Centre Program

The Resource Centre Program

 

This program provides assistance to families who adopt or are preparing to adopt children with special needs (wheelchair-bound kids, those with impaired vision or hearing, afflicted by severe congenital conditions, and kids with intellectual development challenges). We are running this program in cooperation with the Here and Now Charitable Foundation for Helping Orphans.

Foster families have recently started to adopt not only relatively healthy little babies, but also older children, sometimes children with health problems. These families especially need help.

The Resource Center program gives each family access to several professionals who find out what the family needs, and put together a plan to help accordingly. The main types of services available through the program are consultation a healthcare specialist, a psychologist or an educator, engaging the child in developmental activities, assistance in finding pre-school facilities and grade schools which can accommodate the child’s special needs, as well as paying for additional treatment for the child.

In addition, the Resource Centre Program organizes consultations with psychologists, special-needs educators, pathologists, and organizes group training for families preparing to adopt a special-needs kid.

 

 

  • I and the World Around Me Program

I and the World Around Me Program

 

The program tackles social adaptation of orphanage students and graduates. We run this program in partnership with the Here and Now Charitable Foundation to Help Orphans.

The program provides for psychological work with orphanages kids, aiming at their successful integration in the modern society. Experienced psychologists organize training sessions, master classes, field sessions, workshops, which enable orphans to develop their communication skills, teach them how to make independent, responsible decisions. In addition, the program provides educational tours of businesses and organizations in order to help children to learn about different professions by getting first-hand experience right in the workplace.

Follow-up for graduates is another important aspect of the program. Orphanage graduates often fail to socialize properly once they find themselves in the great wide world. One of the main reasons for this is that they do not have senior colleagues, friends and mentors they could follow, ask for advice, or emulate. Follow-up for graduates involves building and maintaining a system of constant communication between an adult and a child. By spending time with an adult, exchanging letters with him or her, and by participating in each other's lives, orphanage kids find grown-up friends who help them navigate through life.

 

 

  • Assistance to orphans in hospitals and orphanages
  • Assistance to orphans in hospitals and orphanages
  • Assistance to orphans in hospitals and orphanages

Assistance to orphans in hospitals and orphanages

This program is all about creating conditions for healthy, full-fledged emotional and mental development of children without parental care in the hospital environment. The program is operated by our partner, the Volunteers to Help Orphans Charitable Foundation in the Davidovo town hospital of the Orekhovo-Zuevsky District of the Moscow Region.

Children left without parental care may stay in hospital for a long time for various reasons. Healthcare professionals carry out only their direct responsibilities for the treatment of the child, and it is obvious that hospital environment does not allow children to develop fully, as they would in the care of their family.

The program provides for a children’s nurse and educator position to be created at the hospital to carry out the full range of procedures and training required for proper psychological and emotional development of the child, including hygiene, proper nutrition, taking walks, and activities that promote development.

The experience of normal, more “natural” communication with adults, the ability to establish an emotional connection with someone should help children to adapt more effectively to a life in an orphanage or in a new family in the future. 

 

  • The scholarship programme

The scholarship programme "Five plus"

The "Five plus" project’s goal is to pay scholarships to gifted children from poor and disadvantaged families. The students of educational institutions, specialized secondary institutions and institutions of higher education at the age from 12 to 23 may become candidates for the scholarship. The marks of the candidates are to be the "excellent" and "good." The Charitable Foundation “Sozidanie”, which is responsible for the programme, offers the scholarship based on scholarship competition. The scholarship fund is 3,500 rubles a month (in 2015). The payment is made monthly from January during a year.

  • The program to help children living with cancer and development of voluntary unpaid blood donation
  • The program to help children living with cancer and development of voluntary unpaid blood donation

The program to help children living with cancer and development of voluntary unpaid blood donation

This program is about bringing donors to medical facilities, raising public awareness of blood donation, promoting blood donation in the conventional media and through social media. We run this program jointly with the Give Life Charitable Foundation for Children with Cancer and other serious diseases.

The purpose of the program is to supply donors’ blood to patients who request assistance from the Give Life Foundation. On average, 300-400 patients of our Foundation require blood donors’ assistance every month. The program includes registration and encouragement of first-time blood donors, there are regular events to promote voluntary blood donation at other organizations and companies, and an annual celebration for donors. More than 500 regular volunteers participate in the Program, helping to run donor events, organize celebrations for donors, work shifts at Moscow blood transfusion stations, and/or at the call center for blood donors.

 

  • Kuryokhin award in the field of contemporary art

Kuryokhin award in the field of contemporary art

The Kuryokhin Independent award in the field of modern art established in 2009 is represented by the Center of Contemporary Art and Charitable Foundation of Sergey Kuryokhin. The Vladimir Smirnov Public Foundation is funding this award, which is considered to be an outstanding cultural event in St. Petersburg and Russian art sphere. The main objective of the Award is to support promising musicians and artists who develop the same revolutionary ideas promoted in the 90-ies by Sergey Kuryokhin. Search for new forms of interaction between art, provocation, focus on vivid performance, improvisation and unpredictability of the result – those are the main principles of pop-mechanics that the Kuryokhin Award is grounded on.
 

  • Collaboration with the Diana Vishneva Foundation
  • Collaboration with the Diana Vishneva Foundation

Collaboration with the Diana Vishneva Foundation

The Vladimir Smirnov Foundation cooperates actively with the Diana Vishneva Foundation for the Coordinated Development of ballet. In September 2012, our foundation was the organizer of the exhibition "Diana Vishneva in the lens Patrick Demarchelier" held in Moscow in the Multimedia Art Museum.
A new joint project of two foundations is the ballet «On the edge» ("On the verge"). It was realized with the participation of Jean-Christophe Maillot and Carolyn Carlson, the world's leading choreographersrepresenting the modern school.

The premiere of "On The Edge" ("On the Verge") was held at the famous Segerstrom Centre for the Arts, located in the Californian city of Costa Mesa (the USA). The European premiere of a new balletproject Diana Vishneva was held in Monte Carlo in the historic hall Garnier Opera. Russian viewers could see the same performance in the spring 2014 at the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres. The project"On the Edge" is covered in a variety of information sources in the US, Europe and Russia.
In November 2014 the world ballet star Diana Vishneva performed the title role in the ballet "Tatiana" by John Neumeier on the stage of the Moscow Musical Theater of Stanislavsky. D.Noymayer created ashow based on Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin". The premiere took place on the main stage. According to Diana, in this play everything depends on music.The Vladimir Smirnov Foundation is happy to support this project, as well.

  • The School of Charity Program

The School of Charity Program

 

This program is a series of interactive lessons and discussion group meetings to inform children and their parents and teachers on the foundations and traditions of charity and philanthropy in Russia and around the world.

The purpose of the program is to introduce high school students to the world of social and non-profit institutions, encourage them to become proactive in charity, teach them tolerance of others, skills of effective communication, and perhaps help the kids find their own way in the field of charity.

 

 

    Sponsorship of Children's Cinema Camp and Kinoostrov Festival

    The Vladimir Smirnov Foundation is the general sponsor of the all-Russia children camp and Kinoostrov Festival.

    Almost three weeks young film-makers from all over the country will study the basics of film-making in the children camp on the shore of Lake Petrovskoye. The camp program features master classes in dramaturgy, stage direction, acting, cameraman job and stunt performance.

    Films made by children during their training period will participate in the film festival. This year the jury is led by Dmitry Astrakhan, movie and theatre director, an honored art worker of Russia.

    • Board of Guardians at Morozovskaya clinical hospital for children

    Board of Guardians at Morozovskaya clinical hospital for children

    In 2011 Moscow Department of Healthcare founded the Board of Guardians at Morozovskaya hospital for children. Clinic’s management felt that this would make the hospital stay less traumatic both for children and their parents. Since not all causes can be financed by the state, it was the initiative of caring people and representatives of various public organizations to form the Board. The Vladimir Smirnov Foundation joined this honorary work in 2015. Together with medical workers we make sure that hospital wards are nice and cozy and that kids are never bored. May the recovery process become quicker and more cheerful!

    • The-House-for-Children

    The-House-for-Children

    The House for Children

    A Russian look on Great Britain

    Fifty world-famous Russian photographers

    Two major charity organizations

    Everyone’s personal contribution to

    the House that we’ll build

    A unique photographic exhibition “The House for Children” will be held at Moscow Gallery of Classical Photography in April 2014. 

    Among the participants of the exhibition are celebrated representatives of photojournalism and art photography, photographers of the leading world agencies and major publishing houses, winners of the most prestigious awards, whose works are regularly represented in auctions of the world’s largest auction houses. Sergey Borisov, Sasha Gusov, Alexander Zemlianichenko, Alexander Kitaev, Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev, Lev Melikhov, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Nikolai Rakhmanov, Yuri Rost, Tofik Shakhverdiyev and many others have agreed to donate their works dealing with London and Great Britain. The exhibition curator is Alexander Tyagny-Ryadno.

    Each of the fifty unique photographs will be sold at the exhibition and during the charity auction. All proceeds will be allocated to rearranging an orphanage into a family child care home and to its further development.