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Schooling for refugee children in 2017

The Integration Centre in Moscow provides educational and cultural activities for pre-school refugee children who don’t attend kindergarten, and tutoring for school age children who have no access to state schools. The centre caters for about 80 children and...

Mediation project in School 36

Conflict mediation in schools, Dzerzhinsk

A two year project in Dzerzhinsk (running from late 2015 to 2017) called “Attention! Conflict!”, was designed to set up mediation programmes in schools. The aim was to use peer-to-peer mediation by schoolchildren trained as mediators. Teachers and school...

Schooling for refugee children in 2016

The “Kids are Kids” Integration Centre for refugees in Moscow provides educational and cultural activities for pre-schoolers who don’t attend kindergarten, and tutoring for school age children including those who have no access to state schools. During 2016 about...

Publishing and outreach in 2016

In 2012 Friends House Moscow received a major grant from The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, which provided three years of funding for translation and publication of Quaker texts. The work was not finished by the end of year 3...

AVP workshop at a detention centre for adolescents, Odessa

AVP Ukraine in 2016

The Alternatives to Violence project (AVP) is a practical training programme that enables participants to deal with potentially violent situations in new and creative ways. It was originally developed by Quakers in the 1970s in the USA, for use...

Christ in Catastrophe English Russian

Publishing and outreach in 2015

In 2012 Friends House Moscow received a major grant from The Joseph Rowntree Charitable  Trust, which provided three years of funding for translation and publication of Quaker texts. 2015 was Year 3 of the project. The work has proceeded...