News
Preview of The Boys of Freedom Street Documentary
On 21 November, The Boys of Freedom Street, a new documentary film by Elena Pogrebizhskaya, was previewed at the ArteFAQ coffee shop. This film is the second part of an on-going series about orphans. The first film Mama, I Gonna Kill You has drawn a huge public response, also from people in high places.
Conference "Home for the Child is Care for the Future" Has Been Held
On November 20 – 22, a conference titled "Home for the Child is Care for the Future" was held in partnership with the Vladimir Smirnov Foundation in St Petersburg to address the modernization of children's homes in Russia. The Conference dwelled on improving quality of life for orphans and making the life at children's homes close to that in a family.
Charity Ball in Memory of Ilya Segalovich
On November 14, our Charity Ball to commemorate Ilya Segalovich was held in the GUM show room. We cordially thank the GUM store for providing a hall free of charge. At a gala dinner in the elegantly decorated hall the guests enjoyed music, chatting and a silent auction. Our old friends Rostislav Ordovsky-Tanayevsky Blanco of Rosinter Corporation and Sophie Nash addressed the audience with words of encouragement. Maria, the widow, told about the role of Ilya Segalovich in the life of children.
Garments for Kids
Our volunteers have brought along new infant clothes like vests, coveralls, crawlers, and tights to the Warm House. The Warm House is a lodge for women who were going to abandon a newborn or remove a child from the family for some reasons, for example when there is no place to live. At the Warm House the psychologist, social worker and lawyer create a rehabilitation environment helping women to become a careful mother and be prepared for an independent life outside the refuge.
Big Boarding School Receives Small Gifts
In mid-November, boys and girls from Cherntsk Boarding School received beautiful and convenient sportswear from our Foundation. The craft instructor got a long-awaited chain saw! Now we are dying to see wonderful wood carvings in the schoolyard! Needless to say, we expect that our children will excel in sports.
Masha Sorina Exhibits Her Paintings
On November 27, Aidan Studio at the Winzavod launches an exhibition of paintings by Masha Sorina. Masha is fourteen and this is her fourth solo exhibition.
She began to paint when she was seven after a stroke and had to drop music and ballet classes. Masha draws pictures on any surface and even not quite suitable. She says: "When I'm sulky, I sit and paint and when I'm in a good humor, I sit and paint."
When creativity becomes a way of life, then "art ends, the soil and fate start to breathe."
In spite of her young and tender age, Masha is a real artist with her own, unique style. Anyone who once saw Masha's works, can distinguish her pictures from hundreds of others by her unrivalled perception of the world and inimitable expression as a mature music lover can always recognize the composer by few movements of a symphony, the conductor by the orchestra's sounds, the soloist by his playing style or a viewer the film's authors by the way they tell their stories or by techniques employed.
Masha Sorina is a rare type of artist who discovers rather than explores. Her canvases bring back a world existing in the depth of the soul and images buried in everyone. Only an inborn artist is capable of exposing them.
The exhibition will last three days along with a quiet auction of Masha's works. The proceeds will be channeled to a charity account opened for Masha Sorina.
Halloween at Home of ROST
The Home of ROST merrily celebrated Halloween. On November 2, our Foundation founders, director and volunteers arrived in the settlement of Petrovsky. Every corner of the Home was festooned with cobwebs, kids were wearing fearsome masks and, naturally, traditional pumpkins were grinning toothlessly. The glassy eyes of the dogs were staring at skeleton images on the walls.
In short, the celebration was grand and showed that even a "horror" environment could evoke a host of positive emotions!
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Donor Action at Skolkovo
On October 31, 43 people came to the Skolkovo Innovation Center for regular voluntary blood donation. Blood Service employees could collect more than 20 liters of blood intended for Moscow hospitals. Our colleagues from the Give Life Charitable Foundation traditionally raise funds during the donor actions at the Innovation Center. This time the Foundation received 26,000 roubles within a few hours.
We heartily thank Skolkovo employees and are looking forward to meeting them soon.
International Conference on Social Innovations
On October 9, the World Trade Center hosted an international conference on social innovations that focused on social business, its specificity and prospects.
Colleagues from the UK, Switzerland, Austria and Germany shared their success stories in this area. Domestic social projects were presented by the Our Future Foundation.
Besides, at the conference Nellie Uvarova presented her splendid and crucial project "Naive? Very". For more information see: http://www.naivno.com/about_sotr.htm
