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A festive event dedicated to Mother's Day was held in the Resource center for women and families with children the 24th of November!
A surprise had been prepared for those who came to the feast.
The children divided stylists and florists into teams, and mums became models and florists' assistants.
The feast was called "My beautiful mummy".
Each team had to choose an attire for their mother, do her hair, do make-up, select accessories and present the model telling why their mother is the most beautiful.
Mother's day was the 26th of November (it is celebrated on the last Sunday of November). And we celebrated it on Friday evening! There was a tea, songs (the mothers sang too!) and gifts (the guys had made by hand a stand for hot plate or a pot holder or a dream catcher).
We held a small meeting for parents after the feast.
Our project has a very busy life. The weather was cool for trips to the country at the end of October and we (the staff of the program) decided to take Natasha to the Russian Museum. Galina Korotkova, the worker of the Museum, helped us with organization of the excursion. Galina is a parishioner of the Lutheran Church of St. Peter the Apostle. This visit was the opportunity for Natasha to get acquainted with the works of Russian masters. Also our small team organized relaxation trip for medical workers of the Botkin hospital. We visited the Literature Museum in Priyutino, walked around the manor park, saw the Savior Church, The miraculous Imago in Rumbolovo mountain and visited two memorials - "Memorial garden" and "Flower of Life". We are pleased that all the participants of the trip were satisfied.
Also the staff and volunteers would like to express their appreciation and gratitude to the driver, Alexander Pevtsov, for his great help in working with the disabled. We really appreciate his skills. Alexander is always happy to help us and our accompanied: whether it is a visit to a medical institution, or participating in walks and trips with our wards. Recently, he has created a miracle. He carefully has taken down a disabled person on the wheelchair from the fourth floor with no lift.
We have no time to relax! After we could mount an exhibition of our creative works "Breakfast at Pinocchio", we started active preparations for the celebration of Christmas and New year. This year we are going to hold a fete in the style of Russian avant-garde (we will have EVERYTHING : impressionism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, cubo-futurism, suprematism!!!!)
And the Merry men of Kazimir Malevich will decorate our holiday!
Huge thanks to Daniel Pholistoma for the wooden models that have brought a lot of joy to all artists of the center and the audience!
Parents' meeting took place in the Bishop Maletsky House the 20th of November. The guests from the Employment Center of the Central district spoke at the meeting, discussed the issues of employment of youth with developmental disabilities. Also class managers spoke about successes and achievements of our guys!
ANNOUNCEMENT! ANNOUNCEMENT! ANNOUNCEMENT!
We invite all friends and acquaintances to the exhibition of creative works "Breakfast for Pinocchio".
Our exhibition is creative experiments on the theme of still life in different techniques, materials and with different sentiments. This year the exhibition brings together works of our wonderful teachers along with works by wards of the Center!
We "installed" the exhibition yesterday!!!
The whole day we were working on hanging and placement of the works. Preparation for the exhibition "Breakfast for Pinocchio" took us a lot of time.
We will show you wonders! Corn...watermelon, cheese and sausage!!! And many more miracles!
Vova loves sausages, so they turned out to be as realistic as possible in his execution! But Vanya said that a wooden sausage is a little strange thing...
You can see the diversity of our creativity in A. I. Herzen Library (21 Novgorodskaya street, d. 27) from the 21st of November to the 31st of December! We are waiting for you!
Today the Catholic Church remembers Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia (Hungaria).
St. Elizabeth is a patron of Caritas throughout the world. She lived a life that was full of mutually exclusive circumstances, short and bright like a flash in the dark.
Today the staff of Caritas St. Petersburg and all our friends will gather in the Monsignor Hartmut Chania House and thank St. Elizabeth for our vocation and the gift of compassion for the poor and the disadvantaged.
Dear colleagues, volunteers, friends and not indifferent readers!
Our Church will celebrate The World Day of the Poor for the first time the 19th of November.
The Father Francisk announced his intention to establish this day to encourage the conscience of the faithful hearing the cry of the poor and the afflicted! The motto of the day: "Love not with words but with deeds."
The voice of the poor calls to all baptized, to the civil community and to all people of goodwill not only for support the disadvantaged, but also for appreciation the human and spiritual dignity of each person below the poverty line.
All this week staff and volunteers of Caritas Saint-Petersburg will work in a usual mode. We will help, feed, accompany, be in solidarity, alleviate the pain, brighten up the loneliness, develop, heal wounds, discover the great dignity of our beneficiaries.
And we invite everyone to take a step closer to the poor, to visit the charity projects of Caritas St. Petersburg and to assist the needy.
We invite you all to join us in prayer for the poor and disadvantaged the 17th of November at 16.00. It will be the day of remembrance of our patron Saint Elizabeth Thuringskaya. We also invite you to participate in a solemn mass dedicated to The World Day of the Poor the 19th of November at 10.30. (18 Ryabinovaya st., "The House of Monsignor Hartmut Chania" ).
We invite all to join us!
Yay! We have a vacation! It is time to travel and broaden horizons. Yesterday we learned that there is a beautiful old city named Pskov close to our tiny Luga. And we went there by bus. We received 33 pleasures during that short day. We walked through the territory of an ancient Kremlin and knew the architecture and history of the city of Pskov. Also we swam and rode the water slides at the Water Park and had lunch at 'McDonalds'!
Thank our friends from a distant America! We can travel, learn and relax due to their support!
The stuff of 'Caritas' from Saint-Petersburg and Volgograd took part in an international, a professional, a honest and a very human conference organized by the charitable organization 'Nochlezhka' in Saint-Petersburg. The topic was 'The Homelessness as a Complex Problem'. The experts from seven cities of Russia, from the Netherlands, Finland and Lithuania spoke about all aspects of homeless people during two days. The conference was necessary to share experiences, discuss and support each other.
The participants of the conference discussed many complex issues. How to help a person with mental disabilities? How to defend the rights of victims of real estate fraud? What is the role of a psychologist accompanying a homeless person? What should the help to chemical dependent people start with? How to organize the rehabilitation of homeless people?
Evgeniya Kolpakova, the head of a charity project 'Resource-information Centre Caritas', spoke from 'Caritas SPb' at the conference. The topic of her report was 'The practice of providing a low-threshold help to chemical dependent people in a situation of homelessness."
Evgeniya told about the peculiarities of work with addicted homeless people, the possibilities of receiving help in SPb, the existing of rehabilitation programs to get rid of alcoholic and drug addiction in the city, the difficulties and "risks" of certain services in the field of addicted people rehabilitation offered in St. Petersburg.
The head of a charity project of 'Caritas SPb' ('Informational Advisory Centre on Violence and Dependent Action'), Radik Galiahmetov participated as expert in a panel discussion 'The alcohol and drug addicted homeless help, the linkage between homelessness and addiction'.