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Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –
The volunteer project “Time of Good” helps Muscovites to do hundreds of important good deeds during the week. In the fall, it united about 100 organizations, including non-profit, charitable foundations, social institutions, schools, secondary specialized educational institutions and universities. The program consisted of events of different themes and formats, so that everyone could find a suitable direction for themselves.
“More than 5.2 thousand Muscovites took part in the autumn season of the “Time of Goodness” project. Together with our partners, we showed city residents various opportunities for regular volunteer assistance in the funds and social organizations of the capital. In the variety of useful events, everyone will find a direction that will become a calling and a great good deed throughout their lives,” noted
Ekaterina Dragunova, Chairman of the Committee for Public Relations and Youth Policy of the City of Moscow.
This year the project “Time of Goodness” is held in the capital four times, by season. The next week of good deeds will be in winter.
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“Mosvolonter” together with the “Pyat Verst” project opened the useful program of the autumn season with morning runs in 25 parks. More than 400 volunteers helped organize the starts, and more than 780 participants covered the distance. The most numerous was the run in the “Severnoye Tushino” park.
During the inclusive training, volunteers helped athletes with disabilities, wards of the More Than You Can Foundation, perform exercises to strengthen their muscle corset and improve their motor skills.
With the support of the animal aid foundation “Giving Hope”, volunteers visited the Solnechnogorsk shelter. Each of them managed to communicate with three four-legged animals, for whom they brought special walking bibs with the inscription “Looking for a home. Volunteers of Moscow”.
In the Sborka eco-center and the recycling museum, volunteers were told about the peculiarities of recycling fractions of secondary raw materials. After that, they applied their knowledge in practice and helped sort plastic caps, pens, and felt-tip pens. In the Dobroe Mesto. SAO, volunteer ecologists made feeders for birds that will fly to the capital in winter. And in Druzhby Park, volunteers removed 450 kilograms of garbage.
During the clean-up day at the Bykovo estate, Muscovites helped to tidy up more than two thousand square meters of territory. In the Kotelniki cultural complex and the A.S. Neverov library No. 90, volunteers participated in sorting out the library archive.
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Help together with the wards of foundations and social institutions
Together with partners of the social direction, Mosvolonter held master classes, creative activities and games. Children with disabilities from the boarding house and volunteers learned various drawing techniques and together created two colorful panels. “Silver” volunteer masters helped the participants of the lesson master the technique of knitting therapeutic products for premature babies, which were donated to the departments of perinatal centers of the capital.
The wards of the MnogoMama help center and volunteers competed in a board game tournament. It was held by ambassadors of the Volunteers of Moscow community.
Volunteers made clay figures for the wards of the foundation for helping people with mental disabilities and their families “Unity”. The participants made their own products, which they sell at charity fairs.
In the social house “Obruchevsky” volunteers together with its residents painted T-shirts and made crafts from epoxy resin. And in the center for assistance to family education “Vertical” – helped children weave decorative baskets from jute rope.
For the first time in the autumn season, volunteers tried their creative powers in making a popular puzzle “Fifteen” in a new version. The children made puzzles from pictures cut into 15 parts. Students from the family center “Consent” made fifteen puzzles that will be sent to the teenage club “Territory of the New Generation” in the city of Mariupol. And the children from school No. 1542 created works with images of their favorite animals, they will be donated to a charity fund.
Together with the social project
At the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, students from four art schools and colleges, under the guidance of experienced artists, created 102 paintings on canvas. They were donated to the children’s city clinical hospitals No. 9 named after G.N. Speransky and Morozovskaya.
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Volunteer rescuers from the Moscow City Branch of the All-Russian Student Rescue Corps taught Muscovites how to use special mountaineering equipment.
Together with the Moscow regional branch of the All-Russian public movement “Volunteers of Victory”, volunteers participated in a patronage campaign to care for monuments, memorial plaques and burial sites of participants in the Great Patriotic War, heroes of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. In addition, volunteers learned to weave multifunctional nets to camouflage structures. They will be given to soldiers in the special military operation zone.
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Good week in schools
Employees of the volunteer centers “Good Place” and ambassadors of the community “Volunteers of Moscow” held useful events in schools.
Young volunteers learned about directions and functions at city events and practiced teamwork thanks to the board game “Volunteers in the City”. It was attended by 1,605 students from 37 schools.
The schoolchildren also tried their hand at making soft toys and made fabric items, eco-friendly wax candles, and feeders made of orange peels, which will be useful for city birds in winter. The master classes were attended by 419 children from 20 capital schools. All items will be donated to charity funds.
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“Time for Kindness” in the “Good Place” centers
Visitors to the volunteer centers “Good Place” took part in the campaigns “Feed a Friend”, “Recycle Correctly”, “Help People” and “For the Little and Brave”, which were held simultaneously in eight districts of the capital.
Muscovites brought more than 180 kilograms of food and accessories, medicines and toys for animals – all of this will be sent to Belgorod shelters. In addition, volunteers donated 440 kilograms of waste paper, plastic and bottle caps.
Children’s toys and developmental sets were collected for the small and brave patients of the capital’s hospitals. The action boxes were also installed in the city’s parks at the time when the morning run was held there on the first day of the useful program, as a result of which the participants collected more than 150 toys.
Media volunteers helped preserve the memory of the brightest and most touching moments at the volunteer events of the useful program. They captured warm memories of the project in more than 2.5 thousand videos and photos.
You can find out more about volunteer activities and assistance to the city on the website resource center “Mosvolonter”“, as well as on the social network “VKontakte” and in telegram channel.
Organizing volunteer activities and involving young people in city events correspond to the objectives of the national project “Education” and the federal project “Social Activity”. More information about this and other national projects implemented in the capital can be found Here.
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