Over a number of years FHM has supported a variety of projects initiated by the Centre for Psychological, Medical and Social Support in Dzerzhinsk, a city east of Moscow. The projects have been directed towards finding innovative ways to...
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...
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...
The Big Change Foundation in Moscow was founded by a group of teachers, united by a common dream of helping orphanage “graduates” to realise their potential and enable them to live life to the fullest. FHM supports Big Change,...
FHM continues to fund the distribution costs for Alternativshchik, a newsletter that provides information and support for conscientious objectors. It is published several times a year and around 1,000 copies are sent throughout Russia, often via protestant churches. The...
FHM funds the rent of a small office for an advice centre in Kazan (Tatarstan), which provides legal and other advice on alternative service for conscientious objectors. The centre also helps in cases where there is an illegal attempt...
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...