Translartion. Region: Russians Fedetion –
Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –
Every day Muscovites help participants of the special military operation (SVO) and people living in new and border territories of Russia. They transfer patronage aid, as well as humanitarian aid collected at headquarters “Moscow helps”.
Many city residents create volunteer squads and their own organizations that send everything they need to those who need support. One of them is Oksana Chelmodeeva, director of the center for assistance and development “OkVeAn” and head of humanitarian missions. She began volunteering in 2006, helping to find missing people. In 2016, she joined social projects, and three years later, she opened her own center.
Training in resource center competency development programs “Mosvolonter” helped Oksana Chelmodeeva to competently build interaction with the team. In 2020, over 80 volunteers from the center took part in the mutual aid campaign “We are together”, delivering food and medicine to Muscovites forced to stay at home.
With the start of the special military operation, Oksana Chelmodeeva and her team continued to support people, but already within the framework of the humanitarian project “Moscow Helps”. Volunteers participated in the “Let’s Get a Child Ready for School” campaign, providing children living in new territories with the necessary school supplies. In addition, the center regularly sends the collected aid to one of the headquarters in TiNAO. Since 2022, volunteers have also been working in Donetsk. They distribute humanitarian supplies coming from the capital.
In total, since March 2022, the center has organized more than 60 aid shipments to SVO participants, hospitals, orphanages, shelters, rehabilitation centers and residents of new regions. In addition, more than 500 tons of sponsorship aid for fighters, special technical equipment, machinery and humanitarian aid for residents were transferred to the new territories. In Moscow, support was provided to more than 2.5 thousand displaced families. Many of them themselves joined the center’s volunteer headquarters to help those in need.
Big team
In 2024, Oksana Chelmodeeva created a humanitarian center “OkVeAn-Donbass”. It provides regular assistance to a specialized children’s home, the M.I. Kalinin Clinical Hospital and the Psychoneurological Hospital No. 2. Humanitarian aid is also delivered to guardianship and trusteeship authorities in nine districts of Donetsk: Budyonnovsky, Voroshilovsky, Kirovsky, Kalininsky, Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Leninsky, Petrovsky and Proletarsky. The center provides patronage assistance to more than 25 military units.
“It is my duty to my Motherland to help the participants of the SVO and residents of the new territories. I would like to volunteer in the SVO zone, but my disability did not allow it. My whole family helps with me. I have three children, and they have been actively involved in volunteering since childhood. My son participates in loading and unloading humanitarian aid. Together, we have made more than 40 trips to the new territories. Now he lives in Donetsk and helps at the OkVeAn-Donbass center. The youngest daughter is the commander of the Young Army detachment. She participates in social and patriotic projects,” said Oksana Chelmodeeva.
The Muscovite has a large team. Searchers send requests to factories, plants, production facilities and stores to collect the required amount of resources. At the warehouse, volunteers sort and form cargo into categories. Another team is responsible for transporting aid to the regions. Also among the volunteers are those who write posts about the work done, process citizens’ requests, and lawyers and psychologists provide support to the population and military personnel.
The center not only provides social assistance, but also conducts military-patriotic work, organizes search expeditions and supports veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The military-patriotic club “Bylina” and a search squad operate on its basis. Together with the Moscow sports and leisure center “Atlant”, a youth army association was created, which was joined by 67 teenagers.
“I first met caring helpers during a serious illness. People helped me and my family for free. When I recovered, I decided to devote myself to helping people. Now I actively involve children in the world of good. Such values as patriotism, historical memory and continuity of generations are eternal. They help to cultivate a sense of pride in the Motherland and its history, to awaken in them love for their native land, language, traditions and customs,” shared Oksana Chelmodeeva.
For her active assistance to SVO participants, residents of new territories and the development of the volunteer movement in the city, the Muscovite received many awards. For example, the state medal “For assistance and mercy”, the honorary badge “For contribution to the development of the region”, the medal “Parental valor”, the honorary diploma of the People’s Council of the DPR, as well as letters of gratitude for personal contribution to patriotic education and pre-conscription training of the younger generation, for active public work and for a significant contribution to the development of the volunteer movement in the capital.
You can find out more about the volunteer movement in the capital on the resource center website “Mosvolonter”, on his social network page “VKontakte” Andtelegram channel.
Organizing volunteer activities and involving young people in city events are in line with the objectives of the national project “Youth and Children” and the federal project “We are together”.
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