Vocational Training
Eighteen year old Tolya suffers from mild cerebral palsy and has spent most of his life in a small flat with little education.  He came to Feodrovits as a shy and timid young man with no idea how to communicate or integrate with other people. Through the patient teaching of Yuri who runs the vocational centre for children with learning difficulties he has learnt many of the processes in book binding. Laughs and jokes with the other young adults and has learnt to travel from the centre to home. Yuri has received state awards for his outstanding work with such young people but attributes much of the success of the centre to the help of Love Russia who have supported them for thirteen years. Love Russia helps with the basics but has also implemented a ongoing programme of orders for bed linen and children’s clothes made in the sewing rooms, books for use in school and other item. The materials and wages are paid for up front making sure that the centre has plenty of work and when finished are donated to Love Russia supported orphanage/ Internats and hospitals.  As one visiting supporter commented “getting double the value for the money spent”.
Love Russia has helped support similar schemes attached to rural orphanage/internats to teach skills and provide bedding and clothes for the children at their own and other internats.