| Boarding school “Our Home”
in Tomilino
Moscow – Russian Federation
Boarding school “Our Home” for orphans is located in village
Tomilino, Lyuberetsky district at a distance of about 30 minutes by car from centre
of Moscow.
The institution consists of three buildings, one of which is school and
the other two were conceived as living houses for children.
In the orphanage are accommodated 210 children and teenagers, among them
there are 93 orphans or children, who were left without parents’ care, the other
117 come from families of so called risky groups.
23 children are not yet of school age, they are in the delicate age of 4
– 7 years, 11 teenagers live in the social hotel, the other schoolchildren in the age of
11 – 18 years are taught at other institutions providing general education.
The boarding school was inaugurated in 1956, the building is old and
partially in need of repairs. Some time before the Administration of the city Lyubertsy
has made major repairs of the living buildings belonging to the boarding school.
In the years 1999 – 2002 the boarding school was closed. The stay of
children in such premises was not possible any more. Since 2001 the premises can be used
again.
With the children works 63 persons, among them 43 teachers; there is a
dining-hall in the building but without dish-washing machine.
The children in Tomilino are short of many things, especially of clothes,
shoes, journals, books, hygienic means for maintaining health. On the school-building the
roof should be also repaired. The own workshop for professionally oriented education of
children is in awkward condition.
Equipping the school with a special computer class-room was the dream of
these children since several years.
We the Rotary Club Moscow International are supporting this boarding
school for orphans and are fulfilling some of the wishes of these nice children as
follows:
·
In November 2003 a complete new computer class-room with 15 working places was handed
over from our Rotary Club to the school. The computer working places are brand-new with
printer equipped and were handed over by our Club on 26th of November 2003,
during a festivity and in the presence of our Club president Mr. Tiberius Braun and the
director of the boarding school Mrs. Irina Abramova and other 15 Rotarians from our Club!
A special substantial donation we
received from the concert pianist Mrs. Lisa Leonskaja during her concert in Moscow in September 2003 , who supports our boarding
school project in Tomilino as well.
- Additionally we will equip the workshop of boarding school with devices and instruments
for a total value of 5.000 Euro, so that the children could obtain good professional
education what at the moment is not possible because there are no machine - tools and no
technical instruments at all available. A first proposal has been made by Leonid for two
workshops: steel work, and wood work. This proposal has been sent to Jurgen, who will give
his own analysis, + possibility to get material and team from Knauf.
- Washing machine: we promised to buy a dish washing machine for the kitchen.
- The additional matching grant No. 22998 from Rotary Foundation USA for 8.000 US $ was
received and the boarding school will be provided with laboratory equipment and school
furniture. Involved are also two USA Rotary Clubs in this matching grant: the RC of
Moultrie and the RC of Thomasville.
Additionally during our
visits of the boarding school we have handed out clothes, copy machine, books, chocolates
and other small items for the orphanage kitchen as well.
Last updated: March, 2005
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