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Friends in Talinn preparing for concert

Books for refugee kids in Estonia

A new project in Estonia is for the purchase of Estonian-language books  (plus some in Russian) and used computers, for refugee children who arrived from Ukraine. The aim is to help them learn the Estonian language and integrate with...

AVP workshop Kharkiv

Alternatives to Violence Project

AVP (Alternatives to Violence Project) gives practical training that helps people to deal with potentially violent situations in new and creative ways. The method was originally developed by Quakers in the 1970s in the USA for use in prison...

Students at the English Club

Educational support for orphans

The organisation ‘Big Change’ works in Moscow to support the educational needs of young people who were or still are in care, either in foster homes or institutions. Institutionalised children receive almost no education, have no state support once...

Alternativshchik website screenshot 1

Information for conscientious objectors

Alternativshchik is a service that provides information and support for conscientious objectors who wish to do “alternative service” instead of being conscripted into the Russian army. For some years, Alternativshchik was published as a newsletter several times a year,...

Screenshot from quakers.ru Russian language website

Quaker outreach in the Russian language

Quaker outreach is not proselytising, but letting people know who we are and what we believe in. FHM promotes outreach in the Russian-speaking world through publications, websites and social media. Our Russian language website, www.quakers.ru/, hosts an e-book library...