Site News
April 2010
We transferred our next sum of money amounting to $4300 to the account of the Children Foundation. Hundred percent of that money (as well as additional funds received from other charity organizations) are spent on the commercial washing machine for the laundry room of Idrica's boarding school. Prior to this, all clothe, bed linen, bedspreads, and many other belongings of the 80 kids, were washed using two domestic machines that could not timely complete that much work.
Report on this projectPhotos - not available yet
Article published on www.detfond.org website /Translation/
December 31, 2009
A great joy! We transferred over $3500to the Indica's orphanage
through Ascent Fund, which is helping Russian orphans $3520! We'd like
to thank everyone who donated money for this cause:
Aimee Soverns, Alexei Bezriadine, Andrey Eselov, Anna, Anna Gorbunova,
Boris Efroimskiy, Carlo Scevola & Partners, Cassie
Kozyrkov, Chrissy Jaworski, Dmitri Terekhov, Eleonora Shigabieva,
Gregory Karg, Irene Karg, Jennifer Dugan, Ksenia Galina, Ksenia
Sokolyanskaya, Larry Kamin, Mariya Carrell, Maxym Dedov, Miguel
Fernando de Luis Espinosa, Mirador One, Natalia Ryndina, Nikolay
Glushnev, Oleg Chanyshev, Philip Neznanov, Rita Rubinshteyn, Sasha Belyi, Sasha
Paramonov, Semen Sokolovsky, Sergey Semenov, Shu-Hao Hsu, Valeryia
Kuts, Virginia da Costa, Vladimir Egorov, Yulia Shumilova, Yuriy
Malikov, Yury Makarychev, Anonymous,
Also big thanks to Crepe Bistro (and Dima Bushmakin, Olga Mikailin,
and Fima) and to the band Stop-Kadr (and its leader Ed Babayan) for
helping to organize the fundraiser!
I apologize if I forgot to add somebody to this list.
Itemized report about how the money was spent
Pictures how kids are getting gifts
Russian press /Translation/
Article in Sankt-Pereburg's daily newspaper, "Nevskoe Vremia" /Translation/
September 2009
Another visit to Shushkovo. That time I brought with me two 10 years old children, daughters of my St. Petersburg friends - Masha and Nastya. We bought 100 servings of ice cream in Idrica for the orphanage children. That made them very-very happy! Besides that, we brought a ton of color pencils, crayons, markers, coloring books, needle-work kits, beading kits and beads, puzzles, and lots of other little things. The children were grabbing and tearing things out of our hands! Unfortunately, there still was not enough for everyone ... Pictures are here ...
Июнь 2009
At the beginning of June I went to Shushkovo and took pictures of the children and also of the buildings, the grounds, and the surrounding areas. You can see the poor conditions of those things ...
May 17, 2009
A new charity project dedicated to Idrica's boarding school is located on iOrphan.org. If you would like to make a donation for school's children, click here.
May 15, 2009
The website Shushkovo.org, that tells the story of Indrica's boarding school for orphans left without parental guidance and its problems, is now open for public and functioning. Many pages are not fully developed yet, but I am working on improving them.