Requests for collaboration from Krasnoyarsk

 

The message below was posted to the CivilSoc list on August 9, 1999

Sender: "Al Decie" [email protected]

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 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
[email protected]

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: [email protected]

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.

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: [email protected]

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.

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.

Last updated:    August 1999

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