6. University Scholarship Fund

 A Fund to provide annual scholarships for deserving Russian students to complete their University education is being prepared by the Club.

Our Club will commit funds on the basis of the final project's terms of reference. Other organizations have expressed interest in co-sponsoring the Fund.

Dina Gurova from Kaliningrad was the first recipient of scholarship from RCMI. Our scholarship for 1 year has enabled Dina to finish her studies in Berlin, Germany.

 5. Boarding School 61

 This school provides boarding and education to children coming from disadvantaged and troubled families. Our Club is organizing a concert performance by school students and offering a prize consisting in music courses and instruments. The event will be self-financed through sponsorships and fund-raising activities. The first concert will be kindly hosted in the residence of the German ambassador in Russia.

The children of the school received concert uniforms, musical instruments from our club. A computer class has been established from computers donated by companies of RCMI members. Our club has also financed travel of the girls chorus of the school to France in 2003.  

Most of the orphans who leave Russian State Orphanages are reported to experience severe or even fatal emotional and social trauma in their early years of independent life. Many of these young men and women waste their lives because they cannot adapt to life outside the institutions. MiraMed Institute is an American-registered NGO active in Russia to support orphans who leave the institutions in their adaptation to an independent living. It provides orientation, social and work counseling, additional education and care to emancipated orphans.

Our Club is supporting the Centre by hiring a professional social worker.

In the last few years, the International Charity Foundation "Home of Children" commenced a project for minors in the premises of a former establishment for summer holidays of the Communist Party. In this Centre some 25 orphans can find the family warmth and education that are essential to their growth as human beings and responsible citizens. The Centre also provides temporary welcome for a recovery period (of one or two months) to young orphans from State institutions from regions exposed to nuclear radiations or from particularly poor areas of Russia.

"Island of Hope" is a Moscow-based NGO inspired by the Orthodox Church. It runs a shelter house for street children who are not registered in the Moscow Region and thus are not eligible for assistance by the local authorities. It also supplies hot meals to homeless children in Moscow's rail and metro stations through a mobile kitchen.

An additional donation has been entrusted to our Club by the Delegation of the European Union in Russia.

This Fund provides individual annual scholarships to deserving young Russian students in need. The scholarship provides educational and recreational opportunities such as after-school courses, computers, language training, holidays abroad etc. The scholarships are awarded by a Club's jury and are implemented under the supervision of a Club's "Tutor". Our Club received an additional donation by Rotary Club Ravenna, Italy.