Дети Марии — реабилитационный художественный центр

If you want to help

If what we do stirs something inside of you into action, and you would like to help us somehow…please don’t ignore that feeling!! We depend so much on financial donations/support from people like you; we also are staffed by many volunteers who are professionals and want to share their knowledge with the children. Your time is also invaluable and much needed—you don’t need to be a professional, talented artist to help the kids feel like one! What is most important for our children is that they experience an open, sustained dialogue with adults outside of the orphanage institution. The more interesting and successful, good people they meet, the more ideas they get about who THEY can grow up to be!

These are the options available to you:

You can:

transfer a donation directly into our studio’s bank account

come to our studio in the center of Moscow as a volunteer; essentially as a volunteer you would talk to or work with the children in their art projects…being face to face also gives you the opportunity to share your knowledge of let’s say, for example, using a computer or using a phone card.

host children for the weekend in your house, and teach them basic household skills, take them out to eat, or simply serve them home-made food

buy our cards and calendars, children's paintings and ceramicspurchase some of the children’s art

donate:

- Art materials (paint, brushes, paper, canvases, pencils, notebooks, fabric, acrylic paint for our wall murals, felt, supplemental tools for lessons [sewing machines, instruments, etc.] )

- Second-hand children's clothes still in good condition, --coats, boots/shoes included! --

- DIAPERS!!! That’s one thing that’s always in short supply, also, hygienic products (detergent, soap, shampoo)

- Second-hand furniture and home appliances for graduates of the boarding schools starting independent life,

- Second-hand computers and office equipment.

Join us as a clown (we’ll teach you how! We have everything here!) on our trips to orphanages/hospitals