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Genesis Report 2011/12 Reg Charity 1092154 Genesis Report 2011/12 Genesis Sponsored Students First Year of study at Technical College (Aged 16) Ryazan, Russia Academic year 2011/12 LOVE RUSSIA Love Russia is a Christian charity which has been involved with supporting orphanages, orphans and destitute youth colleges, and homes for the disabled in the Ryazan, Kaluga and Moscow regions of Russia for 19 years. Since 2010 it has also supported projects in the Leningradsky, St Petersburg, region. It works closely with the local education authorities, local Russian pastors, and businessmen and women to help fund specific projects as well as working in hospitals, special needs schools, day-care centres and homes for the disabled, and a detention centre and prison for young women aged 14-21. THE GENESIS PROGRAMME Genesis was established in 2000 when Love Russia was approached to support 8 orphans as they entered further education to train for qualifications that would make them eligible for work or university. Life beyond an orphanage care system is tough. According to the only available official statistics (www.satistika.ru) - 40% become alcoholics or drug addicts; - 40% are drawn into the criminal world; - 10% commit suicide; - 10% integrate into the society and survive beyond their 20th year. Love Russia has had a significant impact upon these statistics in the Genesis projects they have sponsored. A year after finishing at college (May 2012) none of the Genesis graduates have committed criminal offences or been prosecuted. Most of them are working in their chosen field applying the knowledge and the skills they acquired through their college education. According to the feedback received from the Genesis graduates at the meeting with the mentors and tutors, not only did Genesis help them deal with financial challenges but also improve their social skills, learn to adapt in difficult circumstances and feel more confident when starting to live independently. For the last twelve years the Genesis program has sponsored orphans and other underprivileged students wishing to obtain vocational or educational qualifications in Russia. Most orphans are forced to leave the orphanages in the summer of their 16th birthdays and without a specific plan of support they quickly end up on the streets and in a life of crime. Breaking this cycle has been the major driving force of the Genesis education programme. Teachers, pastors and orphanage and college directors are closely involved in the process of selecting suitable candidates for the Genesis programme. They are means-tested and those who qualify have to attend at least 90% of their classes and sign to say that they will not get involved in drugs, prostitution or any criminal activities. Love Russia provides mentors who visit the students monthly or more if required and provide necessary advice and support, as well as a local project coordinator who maintains contact with the mentors and the Genesis coordinator in the UK, and a treasurer who distributes the funding each month when the student visits them. UK staff visit the supervisors every two months during the academic year. Students who have taken part in the Genesis programme have a 96% record of integrating into society, a figure that has been constantly maintained throughout the last years of the programme. By supporting vulnerable students throughout their college years Love Russia gives them an opportunity to find legal employment, provide for themselves and their families and have further education prospects for the future. Most notably, one of the Ryazan Genesis graduates has gone on to become an interpreter for us at our summer camps as he wants to help other orphans to realise they too can hope to change their lives through hard work. In this photo he is interpreting at the training seminar for Love Russia CEO Alex Cooke. CHALLENGES IN 2011-12 Numerous major changes have occurred over the last few years since a new president and parliament were established in 2010. As stated in our last report, in late June 2010 all Area Education Directors lost their jobs and new ones were appointed. In the year since then many of the Directors of individual orphanages have also lost their jobs and have either been totally demoted or moved out of area. In the academic year 2010/11, 86 college and university students benefitted from the Genesis project in Ryazan but it has been a very different story since then. At the end of the academic year the new Director of Education for Ryazan refused to allow the Genesis project in the joint Ryazan State College to continue. She made the decision without meeting with us or hearing the requests from previous successful orphans and parents. She wanted to assert the belief that they were capable of supporting the youth themselves. We were not allowed to meet with the tutors who had successfully started this project with us and who had mentored the students during the ten years of its duration. We did, however, manage to write letters to them and the Russian supporters thanking them and giving them words of encouragement for their future. During a visit to the city in October 2012 we were informed that two of these tutors had persuaded the Director of the college to allow local business people to offer sponsorships for a few of the students. We know these business men and are thrilled that they have understood the significance of this type of encouragement and are willing to step forward to start a scheme like this in their own and college as a result of observing how Love Russia worked the project. Mr Alexander Kanunikov who was the Director of Education for Ryazan from 1999 to 2010 has made great efforts to maintain his friendship with us, both personally and as a charity. He was instrumental in granting us access to the State College and had fully supported the Genesis project. He and his wife have lost their flat as it was linked to the job. If he had worked just two more years to retirement he would have been gifted the flat. They are living in a summer dacha in the countryside and are preparing to be snowed in for many months. He has become stooped and old and it has been painful to see such a caring, thoughtful and gentle man reduced to incredible poverty. We are also hopeful that a new president and parliament would see the appointment of a Director who would view our joint projects in a more favourable light. We continue to pray that the memories of those involved over the last ten years would not fade and that as the Genesis graduates continue in their fruitful lives the impact of the project will be reinforced. During the summer of 2011 orphanages were amalgamated or just had children transported elsewhere as the buildings were needed for alternative uses. One institution in Spassk Ryazansky where Love Russia and local businesses and doctors had paid for new toilets, showers, beds and a playground, suddenly had the Director removed from post, the orphans moved to unknown destinations (only three children have been tracked down so far) and the building reopened as a private college owned by the ex, Assistant Director of Social Work. Other establishments have been overloaded and thus over crowded with extra children transferred from closed orphanages, such as Kostina orphanagewhere we used to be allowed to work and where a number of the Genesis students come from. Over the last few years Russia has seen some positive changes; the government has been extending the scope of financial and social benefits allocated to orphans, However, this last year has shown clearly that this financial support, whilst championed as very good, is in fact meagre and liable to non-arrival in the students hands. Often it is given in the form of accommodation and large advertisements are displayed announcing this to support the government policies of clearing the streets and improving the country. These offers of accommodation look grand but the reality is mainly single/shared rooms in apartments from which prostitution rings are run. There are no locks on doors and only if an orphan is lucky will they have running water, somewhere to cook or even a mattress to sleep upon. The young girls (aged, 16 and 17) we spoke to were frightened having to comply with the house masters demands as this was their only home. A Genesis students bedroom before and after renovation. The local church supplied the paint, floor covering and curtains. Their old orphanage had thrown out the old beds which they rescued and repaired. Love Russia paid for the bed linen and quilts which were made at the Federovits Day Care Centre in Moscow. Amazingly these orphaned students in Russia (in part as a result of pressure from organisations such as ourselves) are better supported by the government than students from single parent, large or low income families. Just like orphans these students also struggle to obtain vocational qualifications which would enable them to find lawful employment to support not only themselves, but also their often disabled parents and siblings. It is almost impossible for a family of two to survive on the state disability pension in Russia (£20-£80 per month). Some students have to undertake up to three part-time jobs while studying in order to survive and keep their families. This in turn prevents them from dedicating enough time to their course work and subsequently delays them from graduating successfully. By supporting them on a regular basis, providing counselling and advice as required, Love Russia and our partners in Russian churches, give them an opportunity to complete their studies and become qualified professionals.
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