Elderly and physically challenged persons
Assistance to the Aged and Disabled
The program is designed to provide assistance to the elderly and people with disabilities who live in nursing homes and in the nursing care departments at provincial hospitals. Our partner Old age is a Joy Charitable Foundation is running this program.
For over four years, a group of volunteers has been making regular visits to 70 social assisted living and social long-term care institutions in the Tula, Tver, Kaluga, Bryansk, Novgorod, Novgorod, Pskov, Arkhangelsk, Kirov, Yaroslavl, Omsk, Svedlovsk, Leningrad Regions and the Republic of Tatarstan. The purpose of these visits is to help lonely elderly people feel that they are not abandoned or forgotten, and to give them as much support as possible.
Participants in the Old Age is a Joy program supply all sponsored medical and social institutions with diapers, wheelchairs, heaters, bed linens, cleaning products - in short, trying to meet the most pressing needs of these institutions.
Project: Hot Line for Social Services and Home Care for the Elderly
The project targets elderly people aged over 60 living in Russia without kinship care, where volunteers can be helpful for providing communication, social or home services. The project does not intend to respond to requests for money, dwelling repair, construction, or purchase, the purchase of land plots, automobiles, agriculture machinery, the installation of gas, water, electricity supply facilities, medical aid, health visitors, drug supply, funds for prosthetic devices, surgery, treatment, massage, or medical devices, etc. The project aims at raising public awareness of elderly people problems, providing psychological support to the elderly, widening the circle of their contacts with the help of volunteers and a correspondence program for grandparents and their grandchildren, organizing social and home services for the elderly provided by volunteers, developing the volunteer potential of the elderly, assisting in organizing "self-help groups" of the elderly, fostering the volunteer movement in Russian regions and increasing the number of volunteer groups helping the elderly. The All-Russia hot line for social services and home care for the elderly is +7-985-862-95-02. Any grandma or grandpa from any Russian region can call using this number to ask for help or advice, describe their problem, or just get it off their chest. The most important thing is to feel that you can receive encouragement and help. Most of the phone calls are from lonely elderly people who are hungry for company, warmth, and care. According to Lydia Amelicheva, the hot line coordinator, requests for care items used for bedridden old ladies are frequent. Sometimes people need wood, coal, or foodstuffs. It should be noted that social services and home care do not cover monetary aid, purchase of dwellings, medical treatment expenses, or purchase of agricultural equipment.
Information support to people in crisis
We help specific foundations, programs and projects seeking to support people going through a difficult time. Our partners operate in various areas which comprise aid to children, adults or entire families.
We can advise you which foundation would be the most relevant to meet your specific need. The Vladimir Smirnov Foundation scrutinizes any application and provides any information support.
