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Since
its foundation our Club has promoted and performed many humanitarian projects,
scholarships and charity projects, at both local and international level. Some members of
the Club offer their personal free-time contribution to support these projects that
besides all need quite important economical resources. Therefore our Club organizes
periodical fundraising events some of which in the residences of ambassadors who wish to
contribute to our humanitarian activity. Thanks to the events organized in the residences
of the Ambassadors of Germany, France, Italy, Argentina, Belgium, Iceland, Spain,
Switzerland and European Union we have been able to collect a good portion of the funds to
be used for the projects. And of course great financial support our club receives from
individual donors – businessmen who would like to help the society in the best way
through assistance of RCMI.
We have been already involved in three “Matching Grants” with the
Rotary Foundation and some RCs of Georgia, US.
Among the main projects implemented in the past years the yearly
"All Russia Rotary Children Music Competition" is the most prestigious one of
the RC "Moscow International". This competition is reserved to the promotion of
young Russian musicians whose age is between eight and thirteen and who are studying one
of the following instruments: piano, violin, viola, violoncello, wind instrument. Some of
these children are pupils of famous musical schools. Every year Rotary Club "Moscow
International" organizes this event in cooperation with the other Rotary Clubs of
Russia and with the assistance of many sponsors. RC “Moscow International” is member
of the “European Union of Music Competition”, an official European Organization that
promotes national and international music competitions.
The main projects performed in the past years and the ongoing projects
are mentioned here below.
Laureats of Russian Rotary Children Music Competitions
ROTARY YEAR 2004-2005 - President: Leonardo de Angelis
Celebrate Rotary
Paul Harris and some of his friends founded Rotary Club
on February 23, 1905. This year is the first centennial of Rotary!
Our club is celebrating this special year by focusing its activity on
some of the opportunities presented by Rotary International.
1. Rotary Centennial
Meeting in Italy (18 - 25.09.2004) (click link for
details)
This project has
been promoted by our Club to celebrate Rotary in our world. Thirteen people, seven
Rotarians and five spouses or friends have attended full or part-time this tour and have
really got to know each other better and developed their friendship. Furthermore, we had
the opportunity to establish good-hearted personal relations among Rotarians of different
clubs. In fact we met with many Rotarians of some clubs, RC Bari, RC Casamassima, RC
Parma, RC Pisa and RC Ravenna.
2. Rotary Centennial Scholarship
Thanks to ZAO Banca Intesa,
the Russian branch of Banca Intesa, (Italy) and Sacmi Imola, a private Italian
Engineering company, we will celebrate Rotary in our community. In fact these two
companies have decided to joint their forces and grant a special fund to be used for a
scholarship to Rotary Club “Moscow International”. This scholarship, the “Centennial
Scholarship” has been awarded to a young Russian graduated in Economics from one of the
most well known Russian Schools in Economics. This person will attend a three-month
courses in banking, a “Master” at INTESA FORMAZIONE, the high level school that forms
the managers of Banca Intesa. These courses will be held in Milan during the
2005-2006 scholar year.
3. Rotary Centennial
2005 - Children Music Competition 20, 21 March and 29 April 2005 (click
link for details)
As mentioned above, among the main
projects implemented in the past years the yearly “All Russia Rotary Children Music
Competition” is the most prestigious one of the RC “Moscow International”. This year
we have celebrated the Centennial of Rotary in our community in the best way by performing
a special music competition, the Rotary Centennial 2005 – Children Music Competition.
Mrs. Natalia Gutman, one of the worldwide famous violoncellist, accepted to be the
President of the Jury of this competition. More than seventy children have applied for
this competition. The winners of this competition and the winners of the two previous ones
have played together with the famous Kremlin Chamber Orchestra in a concert directed by
Misha Rakhlevsky on Friday, the 29th of April 2005.
4. Thailand Relief
Immediately after Tsunami struck Sri Lanka and other regions in the Indian Ocean, RC
“Stockholm Strand” started to collect funds to assist people. RC “Moscow
International” decided to contribute to this great effort by donating RC “Stockholm
Strand” $1.500- to be used for helping people affected by this terrible drama. This was
another way to celebrate Rotary in our world!
OTHER PROJECTS
While celebrating the Centennial our Club will continue to implement the
following ongoing projects:
5.Orphanage “Our house”, Tomilino – Matching Grant
This “Matching Grant” is implemented in cooperation with RC of
Moultrie, Georgia, US and the Rotary Foundation. We are purchasing some school furniture
for the orphanage.
6. Orphanage "Our house",
Tomilino - Our own project (click link for
details)
We are
contributing to the reconstruction of a workshop in the orphanage. This will help children
to learn a craft during their study. We are purchasing a dish-washing machine for the
kitchen of the orphanage. We have also given children possibility to attend some concerts
at the occasion of Andersen Festival in “Dom Musyki”.
The best way to celebrate Rotary is the service to people in
need!
7. Help Katya
 
Katya, a eight months old baby affected by a terrible disease
at lever needs a transplantation which cost is higher than
Euro 80.000.
Thanks to a media campaign, the parents have collected
an important part of this sum. The remaining sum, Euro 15.000
approximately, has been covered as follows:
- RC “Moscow International” granted a net amount of $15.000-
- Jochen Wermuth
, our fellow granted $5.000-
- TUI, a leading international tour operator offered 4 air tickets Moscow – Brussels
–Moscow
-
Guy Marchand, our fellow, organized issuing Visas to Belgium for the girl and her
parents.
8. Help street children – Samusocial ($20.000)
Samusocial is an international organization that provides help to
homeless children living in the streets. This organization needs some special ambulances,
mini-van equipped with special medical material. These ambulances, each with one doctor,
one psychologist and a driver will run around Moscow to collect children in the streets
and bring them in hospitals and other specialized centers. RCMI will buy one van
completely equipped and offer it to Samusocial.
Medical equipment - Scientific Research Institute “N. N. Blochina”, Moscow
($25.000)
This institute-hospital has 120 clinical beds where children with
different cancer tumor diseases are treated. Professor V. I. Poliakov, Deputy
Director of this institute sent a list of main equipment needed and its cost. We are
buying 7 items of the list which cost is $25.000.
10. Mini Bus in cooperation with PRO OST ($15.000)
“Pro Ost”, a German NGO and “Radimitchi”, a Russian NGO
have promoted a project for treating children affected by psychological illness due to the
fallout of Chernobyl and who are living now in Nowosybkow, Bryansk. They deserve to be
helped in their activity in Western Russia. Then RCMI is purchasing a minibus to be
delivered to “Radimitchi”.
11. Medical equipment for Children Clinic Hospital of Russia
($20.000)
The “Regional Social Charitable Foundation rendering help to
seriously ill and wretched children” presented our Club some of equipment that Children
Clinic Hospital of Russia needs for improving their assistance to children.
Following the request of this foundation, the hospital needs equipment
which total cost is more than some hundred thousand Euro. But we cannot spend more than
$20.000. Then we are choosing some equipment to provide the hospital for the available
amount.
12. Soup kitchen project
We are assisting the Antioch Church in Moscow, in feeding poor
people by offering to each visitor of the kitchen an additional parcel with food products.
13. Support of Elena Ilinskaya
Up to the end of 2003 our Club has assisted the mother of Elena,
a young half-orphan very talented violinist who has played in two our musical events, by
paying partially the rent of a flat. This year we continue this project to allow Elena
to study calmly without being forced to play in the metro stations for lack of income of
her mother.
14. Support of Anna Denisova
Anna is a very talented young pianist who won the first
prize in our second musical competition. In addition to the prize the Club has also
granted her educational assistance that we are providing this Rotary year too.
15.“You are not alone”, an art school camp in Gorny Altai
Last August the “Moscow International Film School” organized
this camp for the social and psychological rehabilitation of “problem children”
through arts and creativity. By our financial contribution ($12.000) to this project we
have cooperated in helping children in need through “re-integration” into Community.
16. Orphanage in Nekrasovo, Tver (180 km. from Moscow) NEW VERSION
(click link for
details)
Even if the agenda is overcharged and provided that we estimate that
our involvement can really help children in need, we don’t refuse to start some new
projects. Last December, at the occasion of our visit to the Orphanage in Nekrasovo, a
small town near Tver, we have decided that we should do something for the children living
there. Then we are organizing the refurbishing of some part of the building where children
are hosted.
Main projects performed in the past years
These projects are only listed here below. For further information
on each of them, please, contact the Secretary of the Club.
Rotary Year 2003-2004 (the 3th year) - President: Tiberius Braun (click link for details)
3.1. All Russia Rotary Children Music Competition
3.2. Medical help for children hospital in Buenos Aires
3.3. Soup Kitchen project
3.4. Aid to a polar explorer
3.5. Orphanage “Our house”, Tomilino – Our own project
3.6. Tutorship Fund for Julia & Nastja
Further to the projects referred above, a lot of work has been done for
stabilizing the Club. In particular, “The House Rules”, guidelines for Rotarians were
presented, discussed and then adopted by the Club.
Rotary Year 2002-2003 (the 2nd year) - President: Josef Marous (click link for details)
2.1 All Russia Rotary Children Music Competition
2.2 Support of Elena Ilinskaya
2.3 Matching Grant for an Orphanage in Tula
2.4 Wheelchairs for children in Kalmykia
2.5 Medical aid to Diana Medvedeva, St. Petersburg
2.6 Boarding School in Skhodnya, Moscow
2.7 Medical aid to Mr. Balashov, Moscow
2.8 Aid to HIV-infected children of an orphanage, St. Petersburg
2.9 Orphanage for small children in Fryasino, Moscow
2.10 Computers for orphanages
2.11 Matching Grant for a girl-prison in Ryazan
2.12 Tutorship Fund for Julia
Rotary
Year 2001-2002 (the 1st year) - President: Carlo Natale (click link for details)
1.1 University Scholarship Fund
1.2 Boarding School 61
1.3 MiraMed
1.4 Rodnichok Center
1.5 Island of Hope
1.6 Tutorship Fund for Julia
Further to the projects referred above, a lot of work has been done for starting
the activity of the Club. In fact, only the President and another charter member were
Rotarians.
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