Subject: Requests for collaboration from Krasnoyarsk
From: Al Decie (ECHOal@krsk.ru)
Date: Mon Aug 09 1999 - 16:14:04 EDT
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last week, our office received several requests for assistance
from organizations seeking to start dialogues with Western colleagues. We
would like to share these requests with you and ask that you forward them
to your colleagues who also may find them of interest. The requests are
from:
-- The Krasnoyarsk Krai non-commercial organization "Solidarity of
Invalids" (SI+)
-- The Krasnoyarsk Krai non-commercial organization "Social Defense of
Children's Rights"
-- The Youth Affairs Committee of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Administration
The first two NGOs are interested in starting dialogues with like-minded
Western counterparts which may lead to some sort of collaborative
activities. The Krai Youth Committee seeks partners for two of its
at-risk youth projects within the program "Youth of Europe". Further
information and contact coordinates for each request follows below.
Please note that our relaying of these requests does not signify
endorsement of these organizations, their missions or activities. We
disseminate information from all organizations seeking contacts with the
goal our assistance being to broaden Western awareness, understanding and
support of civic initiatives in Siberia.
Thank you for your attention to the requests of our Krasnoyarsk colleagues.
Sincerely,
Al Decie
Project Director
ECHO, Inc. / Krasnoyarsk Center for Community Partnerships
echoal@krsk.ru
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1) The Krasnoyarsk Krai non-commercial organization "Solidarity of people
with disabilities" (SI+)
Registered in June 1996 as a Krasnoyarsk Krai Non-Commercial Organization.
Legal address: ulitsa Shyolkovaya 10, office # 206, Krasnoyarsk
Mailing address: Russia, 660001 Krasnoyarsk, P.O. Box 16458
Telephone/fax: 011-7-3912-44-09-40
E-mail: root@tsenso.krasnoyarsk.su
Chairman: Yuri Ivanovich Kozlovsky
Brief information about the organization:
SI+ was founded to: unite people with disabilities of various categories
and defend their legal rights and interests; create work places for people
with disabilities; secure higher and professional education for people with
disabilities, and meet the needs of its individual members. The
organization strives to operate through self-financing. In 1996, SI+
spearheaded the founding of a Krai school for the blind and sigh impaired.
Four of SI+'s members work at the school. Recently three of the school's
graduates entered the Siberian Polytechnic University and also became
members of SI+. To date, SI+ has created 17 work places for people with
disabilities. Currently, the organization is developing a project creating
an information center for issues of the sight and physically impaired.
Contact request:
SI+ is looking to make contact with individuals, organizations and business
schools focusing on employment and education issues for people with
disabilities, particularly for people with sight impairments.
2) The Krasnoyarsk Krai non-commercial organization "Social Defense of
Children's Rights"
Registered in March 1998 as a Krasnoyarsk Krai non-commercial organization
Legal address: prospect Mira, 9, Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia
Telephone: 011-7-3912-49-54-01
fax: 011-7-3912-22-27-85
E-mail: root@tsenso.krasnoyarsk.su
Chairperson: Natalia Anatolevna Sozinova
Brief information about the organization:
"Social Defense of Children's Rights" supports and defends the rights and
interests of children, including the assistance in finding for orphans,
families and happy dignified lives. All of the organization's activities
are founded on the principles of the UN convention on children's rights.
Over the last year and a half, "Social Defense of Children's Rights" has
conducted the following activities: in August 1998, a local survey on the
topic "What do you know about children's rights?"; in November 1998, an
action to keep open an art school for 130 pupils in Krasnoyarsk's
Akademgorodok; in July 1999, the action "Children for their future" in
which children from ages 5 to 14 cleaned a public park in Akademgorodok; in
August 1999, the start of a fund-raising campaign for a playground in
Akademgorodok.
Contact request:
"Social Defense of Children's Rights" is seeking contact with like-minded
Western organizations.
3) The Youth Affairs Committee of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Administration
Address: prospect Mira, 110, Krasnoyarsk, 660009, Russia
Telephone: 011-7-3912-49-35-90 or 21-10-12
Fax: 011-7-3912-22-44-83
Contact person: Grigorii Gurevich
Brief Information on 2 Youth-at-Risk Projects within the "Youth of Europe"
Program:
a) Project <Sail> is a military-sport camp on the banks of Lake
Krasnoyarsk. In three shifts, <Sail> will bring together 300 at-risk
teenagers from all cities and towns and villages in the various regions of
the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The experience of the Youth Committee shows that the
best affect is achieved by simulating life in the army -- something which
may seem strange. The camp program is aimed mostly at athletic and military
training of the teenagers. These activities set the daily schedule and
lifestyle at the camp. Educational and upbringing work are active parts
of the program. In addition to sports, children have an opportunity to
realize their creative abilities. Special attention is paid to selection of
the camp's teachers. At the camp working with the teenagers are
Krasnoyarsk's best teachers, RF coaches of hand-to-hand fighting, and
experienced physicians work.
b) Archeological project <Slavic roots>. Currently within this project are
two camp-expeditions -- <Sharipovo's Astragal> and <Kazachinskiy Rapids>.
Both camps are developing youth scientific-practical expeditions on the
territory of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The main purpose of these camps and
their scientific-historic projects is to facilitate youth exchanges which
foster in Slavic youth positive life skills. Participants in the
<Kazachinskiy Rapids> camp work at a unique multi-layer settlement of
ancient man on the left bank of Yenissey at the mouth of the river
Bobrovka. This settlement was first inhabited by man during the
Paleolithic epoch (14-12 thousand years ago). Participants in the
<Sharipovo's Astrogal> camp work on a territory with a high concentration
of archeological sites (burial mounds, ancient human settlements, etc.).
The Krasnoyarsk archeological school is considered to be one of the best in
Russia. Scientific personnel for these camps are from the Krasnoyarsk Krai
regional museum and the archeology laboratory of the Krasnoyarsk State
Pedagogical University.
Contact request:
The Krasnoyarsk Krai Youth Committee wishes to continue the above camps and
develop new similar projects which help at-risk teenagers. The Youth
Committee seeks to make contact with EU and US organizations with similar
programs so as to discuss possible partnership projects.
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