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Green Patrol volunteers

Green Patrol

Buzuluk is a town to the south of the Urals in the Orenburg Region, which straddles the border between European Russia and Asian Russia. It has a long Quaker history: Friends worked there both before and after the Revolution,...

Keeping kids safe on the internet

Children and teenagers can be particularly vulnerable when they use the internet. Risks include online bullying and depressive youth movements (sects and “death groups” which encourage suicide). A project in Dzerzhinsk, running during 2018, aimed to share experience and...

Portrait of Chertkov by Repin (Wikipedia public domain)

Preserving the Chertkov Archive

Vladimir Chertkov was the literary executor of Tolstoy, and the organiser of the Russian pacifist movement in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in the early 20th Century. The aim of this project was to preserve, by electronic scanning,...

AVP Ukraine in 2017

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

Publishing and outreach in 2017

Activity in 2017 included publication of: Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale; Hidden in Plain Sight; Friends for 300 Years by Howard Brinton, and Reflections from a Long Marriage, by Roger and Susan Sawtell. Work in progress included...

The English Club in 2017

The organisation Big Change helps young people brought up in orphanages to get education and job prospects, and acquire life skills for existing outside the orphanage. It receives funding from various sources (including President Putin). FHM has provided supplementary...