During 2017 FHM continued to fund the rent for a small office in Kazan, to allow the advice service “For Our Sons” to operate. Every month the centre held about 40 individual consultations for people who want to exercise...
Anton Konovalov is an expert in conflict resolution. He is an educational psychologist, and member of the Association of Curators of Mediation Services and Mediators, based in Moscow. Anton came to us with a proposal to set up a...
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...
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...
FHM funds printing and distribution costs for the Alternativshchik newsletter for conscientious objectors, that is sent to individuals or distributed via religious organisations throughout Russia. Three issue s were printed and distributed this year.
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...
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...
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...