Help the Russias

 

'Help the Russias' provides links and information about organizations that help poor and sick persons living in the countries of the former Soviet Union. See: Statement of purpose and Modes to send funds to foreign charities. Please send info to .

 

Dima Marievsky, age 8 years, needs your help. He is recovering from cancer, who is living with his mother this winter as squatters in a condemned apartment building without telephone. To make a direct payment with credit card for his cancer medicines click here. If you would like to help his family with funds for apartment and food, donate to the charitable organization and specify that these funds are to help Dima (email from links on the charitable site or contact the director directly through this link).

 

 

Yulia Frolova, age 1 year, needs your help. Since her body had weakened, she never learned to get up. Her immune defense is practically non-existent. However, the doctors told us that her body is fighting the disease as hard as it can. We are continuing treatment, but it is very expensive. We need to take Immunoglobulin G for six months, which will cost approximately $2,000. We are very hopeful that somebody will help Yulia - click here to see her history and use credit card to help her.

Polina Yakunchikhina, age 12 years, needs your help. She has hip cancer. $800 is most fsurgently needed to pay for her endoprosthesis. If possible,

$30,000 - $40,000 is needed to pay for a better operation in Germany so one leg won't be 3 inches shorter than the other. One can contribute by wire transfer.Russia does not presently have medical insurance for most people. Without help from generous people like yourself she will die. To go to the site for Polina, click here.

Victims of terrorism in southern Russia , May 11, 2002. On Victory Day (Commemoration of Russian fighters of World War II) a bomb was exploded by terrorists during a military parade. Many young soldiers, as well as parade watchers including children and elderly war veterans, were killed. The musical instruments of soldiers lay in pieces, destroyed. Many Russian mothers have only one child to help and support them; these mothers of young soldiers have lost their child. Will you please help? To send a wire transfer, click here for the information. To see more about this charity, see their main page. To see the newspaper article, click here.

 

 

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Charities of Russia

Caritas: A Roman Catholic organization of giving, operating in Siberia, is 'Caritas', Latin for charity. It was instituted there by his Excellency Bishop Werth of Asian Russia. They operate 'St. Nicholas House' for child-orphans and children left without parental care, 'Maternal Abode' for mothers with babies who have no means of support, and 'Mercy Centre' which renders assistance to disabled children, and to provide a temporary quarters for ex-residents of the orphanage. Caritas also bring assistance in food, clothing, and medical supplies to many homeless Christians. Additionally, they provide funds and supplies to needy Russian schools, especially those for disabled children and orphans, which are chronically underfunded due to the state of the economy. If you would like to give, you can also write them at their email address. To send funds, unless one can make other arrangements (perhaps by contacting their email address), it is necessary to do a wire transfer.

A child, now very ill, being helped by http://deti.blood.ru/eng/sos.htmAdvita: - Hundreds of patients are registered anew in Russia each year. Only bone marrow transport (BMT) could save them. For all patients of our hospital center only one treatment option is possible: bone marrow transplantation. We would be very grateful to everyone who can take the opportunity to support treatment of the oncological patients and add our banner to their web site. The visitors to your web site regardless of its topic will appreciate your concern about ill children. Please write us and we will respond in kind. To see giving record click here

Deti: - some of the children that need medical assistance. For many years our hildren were being helped by German charity organizations, and as a result, survival rates increased tenfold. Lately, however, a lot of these programs have been cancelled. Currently, the only thing that is covered is the standard in-patient cytostatic treatment protocols, but the children urgently need anti-fungal drugs since without the prophylactic anti-fungal treatment most children contract pulmonary and gastrointestinal fungal infections. The parents are unable to pay the high medical costs and are in desperate need of financial support. Thank you for your consideration. We are looking forward to your help. To see giving record click here. Note: Deti site has some problems with computers (equipment is difficult and old in Russia ) and is occassionally off-line - if so keep trying!

Love Russia is a registered charity seeking to restore broken lives in practical ways by meeting the physical, mental, social and spiritual needs of orphans and the disadvantaged in Russia .

'Fakel' is the Russian word for Torch. Russian Public Association of People with Limited Abilities "Fakel" is one of the few public organizations that is occupied with problems of people with limited abilities and other socially unprotected categories of citizens on a high level. Apart from working out and implementation of social projects and programs we develop direction of business activities. We actively establish branches in regions of Russia and abroad. In present our Association is one of the largest public organizations in Russia . Our branch offices, subsidiaries and daughter companies are set up in almost all regions of Russia , and we continue to increase their quantity. We consider the main purpose of our association rendering social support to people with disabilities and other socially indigent and unprotected groups of citizens. «Fakel» is one of those few Russian public NGOs that develops and efficiently implements various types of commercial projects. Our activities aim at creating non-budget sources of socially oriented programs financing.

An orphan child's drawing from http://www.torussiawithlove.ie/index.htmlCharity for children (in Russian - copy link and goto translator URL). The noncommercial organization not having membership pursuing the basic purpose: rendering of material and other help to children requiring for social protection, assistance in preventive maintenance and health protection of children, propagation of a healthy way of life, improvement of a moral and psychological condition of children, assistance to protection of the childhood, and also other socially useful purposes connected to basic. The Fund carries out the following kinds of charities: Financing charitable actions(shares), children's homes, shelters, schools - boarding schools; The Organization and financing of programs and the festivals directed against children's and youth dependence on drugs, alcohol, against criminality and glue sniffing; The Organization and financing of the children's and youth centres of rehabilitation in the form of charitable establishments; The Organization and financing of deliveries of medicines to children - invalids, treatment of children - invalids, including financing of operations; The Organization and financing of deliveries of charitable cargoes

Blago - comprehensive database of the Russian charitable organizations (in Russian - copy link and goto translator URL). Dear colleagues! We Offer you to bring in the information on your organization to a database of the charitable noncommercial organizations of Russia . We shall be grateful, if you can distribute the information on creation of a database of the charitable organizations of Russia among the colleagues and partners. Charitable projects satisfy real needs(requirements) of people, solve the important social problems. Supporting such projects, you thus help our society become more safe, more humane, more healthy physically and spiritually.

An orphan child's drawing from http://www.torussiawithlove.ie/index.htmlTo Russia with Love: http://www.torussiawithlove.ie/ - Irish charity to help children's orphanage. In November 1998, a group of ordinary people got together having discovered Khorytylovo Orphanage. We didn't know what was ahead of us on this arduous journey. Continued financial help is necessary. If there is anything you can do, please help us with our uphill task of changing the lives of the 141 children and many more, as there is already a ripple effect starting in surrounding orphanages. The Russian local authorities and people are giving us as much help as is possible, but the economical situation has their hands tied. We have the drive and commitment, energy and love ... your continued support is vital. Thank you for for your time.

International Orthodox Charities. Organization/Objectives In response to a need expressed by members of our Orthodox Christian community, International Orthodox Christian Charities, Inc. (IOCC) was established in March 1992 as the official international humanitarian organization of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA). "The Mission of IOCC is to respond to the call of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Minister to those who are suffering and are in need throughout the world, sharing with them God's Gifts of Food, Shelter, Economic Self-Sufficiency and Hope." Partnering with the Russian Orthodox Church and USDA, IOCC continues to provide emergency food relief to orphanages, hospitals, nursing homes, parish soup kitchens and other institutions in and around Moscow . An estimated 57,000 tons of food have been delivered over the past three years, giving food security to the Russian Federation 's most vulnerable citizens.

All God's Children - for adoption of Russia children. This Russian program was established in 1997. We have united more than seventy-five children with their families over the past four years. AGCI maintains our own staff in Russia and we are currently completing adoptions in the Kemerovo , Birobijan and Primorsky Krai regions. We will be expanding into two additional regions as soon as additional staff is hired and trained. The orphanages in Russia are well maintained and the children are well cared for in the regions where we work. Russian adoptions are not finalized until you have seen the child and declared in a court of law that you wish to adopt the child. This is a benefit to families that want to personally observe their child prior to the adoption becoming final. Children are available for referral at age eight months and up. Siblings or twins are sometimes available. You may adopt two children that are not biologically related at the same time.

Comprehensive charities list for St. Petersburg Russia area. Includes: kickin 4 kidz, Russian Relief, Salvation Army, Peter's Children, Parents Against Cancer, Plus... Road to Life - working with youth, Everest - Muscular Dystrophy support, Caritas - Catholic charitable centre, Innovations - underprivileged children, Doctors of the World, St. Petersburg Child Protection Society, Center for Development of NGO's, Malookhtinsky Dom - shelter and home for abused girls, Kursk submarine tragedy - St. Petersburg submarine club, Christian Children's Fund of Great Britain, St. Petersburg Social Charity, Medical Fund ''RESCUE''.

Russialink - to help provide food and medicines to St. Petersburg area, Russia . To purchase and deliver as much food, medicines and other basic necessities as possible from our resources with very little overheads and middlemen. We have the contacts and resources in St. Petersburg now to make this a reality. The seed of this relief effort began from sharing our interests with our friends, partners and soul-mates in Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Our relief aim is to help children - Children's hospital, orphanages, shelters, single mothers and broken homes - because they deserve it. Also to work with other relief organizations in St. Petersburg , sharing resources.

Russia European Trust. The principal aims of the Trust are to: Provide technical advice and assistance on practice, training, structure and management of social services; Help with training or re-training of civil servants and social workers and to help create training courses at all levels; Provide examples of different models of social services delivery; Help promotion of working partnerships between state and non-governmental agencies; Assist with translation and adaptation of social work teaching materials; Provide a variety of forums for the exchange of ideas between Russia and the Republics and Western Europe, and to help prevent duplication of activity; Raise awareness in the UK of the social welfare problems facing Russia and the former Soviet Union, and of the reform programmes currently underway.

 

Charities of Ukraine

Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund. Medical aid organization serving the Ukraine . The Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund is a humanitarian organization established to protect and save the lives of children confronting the human legacy of the world's worst environmental disaster. It serves as an informational, resource bridge for the United States, Ukraine and the world community. CCRF is a registered non-profit humanitarian medical relief organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code of the United States of America .

The Ukrainian Orthodox Diocesan Office of Missions and Christian Charity (OMCC) supports and coordinates UOC activities both in this country and abroad. For more information, visit the OMCC page in this website. The following are UOC's relief programs and supported charities. Your help for these programs is urgently needed. Many of these organizations and programs maintain their own web presence. For more information, click on highlighted links or write to the Consistory.

CHERNOBYL PUBLIC INITIATIVES. The electronic directory. The Virtual Guide to Belarus were especially widely used: List of Chernobyl related international charity organizations. One of the largest lists of coordinates of Chernobyl Initiatives in the Internet. The list constantly replenishes. A lot of information under mainly German Initiatives.

List of Chernobyl related international charity organizations

 

Charities of Belarus

Vitebsk Association for Invalids. A social union of the invalids of the state of Belarus with support-movable apparatus injury [SMAI] which are obliged to use carriages during their movement and also bed-patients which need constant outside assistance. Main aims of Vitebsk united organization, Social Union of Republic Association of the Carriage-Invalids. Formation for carriage-invalids equal opportunities with the other citizens in the Republic of Belarus to take part in all spheres of the life and activity of the society and state. Defense of civil rights and liberties, legal interests of the carriage-invalids and their families' members, exclusion of all sorts of the discrimination. Cooperation and collaboration with republic foreign and international governments and social (non-governmental) organizations, with enterprises in order to make up for the carriage-invalids equal conditions and accessibility, necessary barrier-less infrastructure in order to provide with opportunity of independent liberties, assistance in social life for the patients, moving only with the help of invalid carriage. Working out and realization of the program for making up the conditions for social-labor rehabilitation of carriage-invalids.

Charities of Moldavia

Clipa Siderala is a nongovernmental, nonpolitical, nonreligious, noncommercial charitable organization. Our site is created for you to find out what occurs in schools - boarding schools of Republic Moldova, to talk, to offer to help... We put a part of our soul in the construction of the future society, in which there should not be a place for the institute of the orphan children. We are offering you to see what happens to these children, to read what we are trying to do, to help them, to help you see that Every child wants to be happy! Our sincere desire - to be left without work.

 

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