On 30 March the Russian President and the Minister of Defence announced that spring conscription would start as usual on 1 April. The machinery of national defence requires that 135,000 young men be delivered twice a year. However by...
“Kids are Kids” (the Integration Centre for Refugee and Migrant Children) continues its work in Quarantine mode. Lessons in Russian, maths, English, physics, chemistry and some other subjects are still being held, but now they are online and teaching...
FHM supports the “English Club” at Big Change, the organisation that gives education and life skills to young people who have grown up in orphanages and leave with little ability to cope. The English Club has recently gone online...
Quakers in Russia have continued to meet in March/April, under the Quarantine regulations, by going online. Moscow Monthly Meeting (the main weekend Meeting for Worship, usually held on a Saturday) are now meeting by Skype. They also met like...
Migrant and refugee families suffer a huge dislocation. The children of such families feel the consequences, even if they were very young, or not yet born, at the time of their family’s move. They often lack the resources to...
At the 2019 annual meeting of QUIP (Quakers Uniting in Publications), Vanessa Julye and Natasha Zhuravenkova were appointed as co-clerks – cementing an important transatlantic collaboration. QUIP (www.quakerquip.com) began in 1983 and is now an international network of over...
On Sunday 3 March 2019, Sergei Nikitin, former Director of Amnesty International in Russia and former staff member at Friends House Moscow, will talk about his experience as a human rights defender in Russia. The meeting at Lancaster Friends...
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...
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...