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...
Equally Diverse (Одинаково разные) is an exciting project which began in 2020, in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow. Here ten schools committed themselves to support over 700 foreign children so that they can learn in a safe and...
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 (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...
The “Kids are Kids” Integration Centre serves about 80 refugee and migrant children, who have arrived from a variety of places including Africa and the Middle East. The Centre helps the children integrate into Russian life. It runs activities...
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...
An advice centre in the Kazan area called “For Our Sons” provides legal and other advice on alternative service for conscientious objectors. The centre also helps in cases where there is an illegal attempt to conscript people who are...
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...
A new project in the city of Dzerzhinsk aims to help disabled young adults find a career. The project “My Route to Occupation” has both short term and long term objectives: The short term aim is to assist a...
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...