Public organization "There are no other people's children"

Project idea

Project “House for Mom” is aimed at disseminating the experience of the public organization “There Are No Other People’s Children” in social orphan prevention throughout the Russian Far East, including municipalities that previously had no access to such support.

 Project Goals and Objectives: 

• training and internships for specialists from six cities in the Far East;
• opening new organization branches in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Birobidzhan;
• supporting volunteer teams in these cities;
• training specialists to work with families and sharing best practices and methods for assisting vulnerable families with children;
• opening two crisis apartments for temporary residence of pregnant women and mothers with children in difficult situations.

 Expected project outcomes: 

• increased provision of comprehensive social support for vulnerable populations in Khabarovsk Krai, Jewish Autonomous Region, and Amur Region;
• strengthened financial and organizational sustainability of participating organizations;
• expansion of the organization’s work and replication of successful practices in other cities and districts of the Far East;

publication of an informational guide to assist mothers in crisis.

Relevance

The issue of orphanhood remains highly relevant. A rating by the “Need Help” Charity Foundation, supported by the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation, ranks regions based on the severity of the issue. The ranking considers the number of children needing family placement, family reunification rates, instances of secondary orphanhood (children returned by adoptive families), and adults’ willingness to adopt.

The Far East ranks among the worst across all these indicators. In particular, the Jewish Autonomous Region ranks last, with orphans constituting 3.6% of the child population and 28.4% of orphans institutionalized, which amounts to 1.02% of all the children in the region. Social orphanhood is also a serious issue in Amur Region and Primorsky Krai, where many children become orphans not due to the loss of parents but because their parents have been deprived of, or restricted in, parental rights.

Up to 80% of children in baby homes are social orphans, and in orphanages, this figure reaches 20%. These children often end up in these institutions due to adverse family conditions or the mother’s lack of housing. In Khabarovsk Krai, the situation is exacerbated by a shortage of social organizations for families and children. There are only three out of the 27 needed social rehabilitation centers, and only three crisis centers for women in difficult situations of the 27 needed.

The project aims at addressing social orphanhood in low-ranking areas of the Far East and improving the quality of life for families in crisis, helping them gradually overcome difficulties and prevent child abandonment.

Social effect

Preventing social orphanhood by providing comprehensive support for parents in crisis across the Russian Far East