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Children's Town - Detskiy Gorod
?Children?s Town?, a non-governmental non commercial organization which provides social assistance to families and children, was started in January 2000. This organization is supported by the St. Petersburg, orthodox, charitable brotherhood of St. Anastasia.

Goals of the NGO ?Children?s Town?:

-support and protection of families and children, which have fallen into difficult situations; as well as helping to stabilize their social status

-participation and cooperation in the development of new programs and technology in work with families.

-prevention of the neglect of minors -social protection, rehabilitation, and adaptation of minors in difficult situations, neglected children and street children, and those children living in social institutions; education and public health activities, including children with disabilities.

-protection and representation of the child?s interests in front of third persons.

-cooperation in the organization of optimal forms of child development.

The Organization participates in the following activities:

-provides social services, including a temporary shelter and place to live for children in need.

 -organizes after-school activities and summer relaxation.

-organizes free food to children in need, their parents and close relatives.

-provides integrated medical-social care to minors.

-cooperates in the placement of children in families and adoptive families.

-works in the development of programs aimed at the social rehabilitation of minors.

-provides help in the organization of the education, raising, and employment of minors.

-represents the interests of minors in the courts, state institutions, and organs of local government.

-helps those specialists, working in the sphere of social work, to gain higher qualifications.

-cooperates with state institutions in work with minors and their families.

 

Galina Kourganova

Address: NGO "Children Town" 39, Nab. L Shmidta

199034 St.Petersburg

 Russia

tel: +7 812- 321-07-76


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