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Podolsk Orphanage

ROOF is grateful to an anonymous private sponsor for funding this project until 31 December 2010.

Where? Ulitsa Sverdlova 45-a, Podol'sk, tel. 54-30-77
Who? Director Nickolay Nickolaevich Pervushin, 31 children from the ages of 6 to 16

History and Short Description

The orphanage was opened in 1996 because of the increasing number of social orphans in Russia. Before the orphanage existed, social orphans and orphans from Podol'sk were sent to orphanages in neighbouring towns.  When ROOF began working at Podol'sk in 1999, the orphanage was home to around 30 children. Some years numbers were significantly higher.

Misha Sokolovski - one of ROOF students at Podolsk Orphanage. Misha is 11yo, studies very successfully at school, and is in constant search for knowledge. He reads a lot and is especially interested in radios and electronics right now. He has a talent for music and is learning how to play the piano now at a music school. Misha finished elementary school with all 4's and 5's (A's and B's) and is spoken well of by his teachers. He is a hard-worker and we feel it absolutely necessary to support this curiosity and persistence so that he can obtain a good education. Misha dreams of being part of a family someday.

Like all orphans, what all these children are lacking is indivdual attention and parents' love, therefore the children at Podol'sk Orphanage are considered to be in a high risk group. ROOF's team at Podol'sk aim to establish long-term, trusting relationships with the children, as well as improving their general educational level, thinking skills and socialization. ROOF teachers concentrate on any school subjects where the children need help and support, and also place great emphasis on the individual interests of children, which has led to the addition of activities classes such as phys ed, music workshops, art lessons, sewing, home-ecomonics (skills for later independent life) and computer.

 

Report on ROOF's Work in Podolsk Orphanage, November 2009.

In 2009-2010 school year there are 31 children in Podolsk Orphanage, 17 of them study at different grade levels. They are taught by ROOF teachers on a regular basis:

Russian Language and Literature – Rumyantseva Ludmila Vasilievna

Mathematics - Glushkov Nikolay Vasilievich

Physics - Zotova Olga Vladimirovna

Chemistry and Biology – Antonyuk Elena Davidovna 

Computer Science – Grablev Yury Vladimirovich

Foreign Language – Epifanova Nadezhda Vasilyevna

and also Natasha, dance teacher.

               

These students attend a mainstream school:

Grade 5 - Nickita

Grade 6 – Fedotov Sasha, Starozhenko Misha

Grade 7 – Ivanov Igor, Ilychev Igor, Mika Misha, Shevichev Sergey

Grade 8 – Gevorkyan Kristina, Shishkin Kirill, Sheshin Zhenya, Sitnov Ilya, Bersneva Anya

Grade 9 – Polyakova Anya, Krasnikova Sonya

Grade 10 – Lanin Andrey 

A few students are taking an individual study course, they are

Andrey Savlyuk (Gr. 6, 16 years old),

Ilya Starostin (Gr. 7, 15 years old).

Andrey Starostin and Krasnikova Masha attend Grade 9 of an evening school.

   

Compared to the last school year 10 children continue to study with ROOF's teachers. In general, last year we had more students than this year. It is easily explained by the fact that this school year has a few difficult students: some of them fall behind their age group academically, some have developmental problems, for which reason they were sent to the individual study courses. Several children have social problems. All of these difficulties seem easily overcome because of the everyday effort of the ROOF teachers, the results are a great success: student marks for the 2008 - 2009 school year were good, with no bad marks at all. Polyakova Anya, Gevorkyan Kristina, Mika Misha, Ivanov Igor completed the previous school year with the best results (without "satisfactory" marks).

All the students advanced to the following grade level. Barybin Sergey, Zverev Sergey, Sharapova Nastya, Fursova Nastya, Domareva Nastya, Kurnosenko Elena who graduated 9th grade in 2008 - 2009 school year entered various technical schools.

This was a tremendous success achieved by a common effort of both teachers and students. At first the reserve of knowledge was very limited, the students were less than eager to study. So, before starting anything, the teachers had to convince the children, e.g. Igor Ivanov, Misha Mika, and Igor Ilichev, that those were capable and clever students and had to demonstrate this. This was the pattern that was tried with every single student: before teaching anything a lot of explanation and persuasion was needed to show that studying was worthwhile. By the end of the second term we already could see that children wanted to get good marks.

This year we have 3 University students. Kolya Blashenkov studies at the Moscow Management Institute, Olga Mingazova and Anna Galiakhmetova study at the Podolsk Cooperative Sports University, having previously completed a sports training college.
Anya Rassadina, Anya Chichikina and Katya Ryzhova are studying at the sports college. Barybin Sergey, Zverev Sergey, Sharapova Nastya, Fursova Nastya, Domareva Nastya, Kurnosenko Elena go to technical schools.

High schoolers, those who study in University, colleges and technical schools, have individual classes with teachers who help them to prepare for exams.

ROOF Programmes in Podol'sk
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At work with ROOF teachers


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