Boarding school “Our Home” in Tomilino

Moscow – Russian Federation

Main Project of the Rotary Club Moscow International, 2003 / 2004

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 26^th 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 during this Rotarian year 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.

·        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 during this Rotary Year 2003-2004. 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: December, 2003

Tiberius Braun, President, Rotary Club Moscow International                       

Ilja Chernykh, Project Manager, Tomilino Project