Russiancommunity team new year celebrations
Dancing & Singing at the New Year's Party The community portage team organised a fantastic New Year party for children and families who receive Portage in Ryazan. 10 children and their parents joined the team for the fun-filled afternoon of games, drawing, singing and a performance, by the portage workers, of a traditional Russian Christmas...
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We hope you enjoy reading the most recent copy of our Newsletter packed with updates about our work, successes and future plans!
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Joint Dietitian and Speech & Language Therapist’s visit to Ryazan Himali de Silva and Sue Williams visited Ryazan in March 2011, read their account of this fast paced and hugely successful...
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Alison Snape, a volunteer Physiotherapist, lived and worked in Russia for 3 months this summer. She said it was “one of the most valuable experiences of my life”. Below are some exerts of her reports as a taster of what she got up to and some of her fantastic achievements. My programme for the first month has been mainly in the baby home. Having spent a week with Jo generally getting...
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ThePromise Volunteer Project has seen some interesting and exciting developments in the past year and is becoming more specialised in response to the needs of both the staff and children in Russia. The project aims to recruit and support volunteers willing to share their specialist knowledge and expertise with the staff, children and families in Russia. ThePromise is very lucky to be able to call...
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Working with the mobile children in Room 4, Yelatma “I did not believe that working with the children in Room 4 was going to make any difference to them at all but the changes I have seen are very big! Now I believe it is worth the effort”‘ Quote from Maria, Head Nurse at Yelatma orphanage, Corpus 3. I became very emotional when Maria said these words to me as this is exactly...
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Sergey spends a lot of his day indoors playing on a mat, the freedom of a swing is amazing for him
Enjoying the sunshine together in Yelatma!
Nastya receives her first christmas present
Katya, Roma & Sergey learn how to play togteher by rolling a ball to each other
Galya, Katya, Masha, Pasha & Nastya spend time in the sunshine
Andre enjoys the tactile trays, with his support worker, in the new garden at Yelatma Orphanage
Pasha loves painting!
Andre has learnt to walk by himself, thanks to splints and lots of encouragement from his Portage worker - Well Done Andre!
Ann enjoys time with her portage worker & friends at the Community Team New Year Party
Dancing & Singing at the Community Team New Year Party with Father Frost
Lunch Time! The children now have tables to sit at and can enjoy meals together
Anya is 12 and has spent most of her life in bed. With Portage she now enjoys games, communicates and is learning to walk
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