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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...

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,...

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...

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...