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Svetlana Selezneva,
leader of the projects "Social youth club: Ostrovok" and
"Prevention of children's abuse and neglect"
Address: 4th Krasnoarmeyskaya 15,
190005 St. Petersburg
Phone: +7 812 317-82-71
Lyudmila Shkraba,
leader of the project "Children in Need"
Address: 8 Ulitsa Leningradskaya,
188238 Luga, Leningrad Region
Phone: +7 81372 2-17-48
Social youth club “Ostrovok”
Our center cares for more than 30 neglected children and teenagers ranging in age from 6 to 15 years. The purpose of our program: to divert the children from the “freedoms and temptations” of the street.
Attending “Ostrovok”, children daily receive hot meals and attend hobby-groups. Every week we go to the swimming pool, during the holidays we organize trips for children. A social teacher, a psychologist, and students of the school of theology work with the children.
The children’s center Caritas in the city of Luga
In the cozy, warm House of Caritas we created conditions for the harmonious development of every child (physically, intellectually, and spiritually). Thanks to the program more than 25 “children of the streets” daily receive hot meals; if necessary, they get medical services. Moreover, since this year a professional psychologist works with the children. For intellectual development of the children, psychological correction, and accustoming them to a daily work, we chose a way to introduce the children to folk arts (with natural materials), which became one of the children's favorite activities.
Prevention of children’s abuse and neglect
The project aims to counter violence and children's abuse in family and school, to increase motivation for personal growth, formation, and development by children of migrants and displaced persons, by street children and adolescents in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region.
The project purpose is to improve the life quality of the children and adolescents living in a socially dangerous situation in the Northwest region of Russian Federation and to give them an opportunity for a full-scale personality development.
The goal of the project is to make the teenagers ready for an independent life and to increase their self-confidence. Psychologists, teachers, and social workers employed in the project are to achieve this task.
The project workers are being educated, share experience and successes with each other and give master classes.
About 60 children and teenagers at the age of 6-16 years, living in disadvantaged families in the Admiralty city district of St.-Petersburg and in the city of Luga and attending local Caritas centers.