Disabled young adults in Dzerzhinsk are being helped to find a career. In October FHM Board members visited the project to find out how it is doing. (Reporting by Patricia Stewart.) The photo shows two young men who are...
2018 is the 200th anniversary of when the marshes around St Petersburg began to be drained by the Quaker Daniel Wheeler. When Tsar Alexander wanted to undertake this project, he contacted the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain with...
Our Friend Natasha attended the 2018 conference of QUIP (Quakers Uniting in Publications). The theme of the conference was “Writing at the Edge: A look at the edges we encounter as writers and publishers“. It was held this year...
We were delighted to receive a grant from the BEARR Trust (www.bearr.org) for new work in the city of Dzerzhinsk, to help disabled young adults find a career. The project “My Route to Occupation” has both short term and...
Eleanor Barden, 24 February 1932 – 26 March 2018 A Memorial, by Sergei Nikitin Sad news has come from Northampton Quaker Meeting — Eleanor Barden is dead. I met Eleanor a very long time ago, 20 years ago. She...
Readers may be interested to know about the Mennonite Centre at Molochansk in south eastern Ukraine. Based in a restored former Mennonite Girls’ School (Maedchenschule) building, the Centre is engaged in humanitarian and social development work to improve the...
We were very pleased to receive a special grant from New Earswick Meeting to support the Refugee School in Moscow. The “Kids are Kids” Integration Centre caters for about 80 refugee and migrant children, who have arrived from a...
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Russia Roger Bartlett In the eighth chapter of Alexander Pushkin’s great ‘novel in verse’, Evgenii Onegin (1823), the author describes his hero’s return to St Petersburg after his travels, and invites the...
Friends House Moscow is the latest stage in the long association between Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends) and Russia. The history begins in 1656 when the Society’s founder, George Fox, sent an epistle to the then reigning Tsar...
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