Non-Governmental

Association of Spinal Disabled "Charity Society"

Registered in February, 1992, the Association has five employees, 13 volunteers, and 80 members who have spinal disabilities. Each month the Association distributes food and financial aid to its members. In 1992, the Association's budget was 768,000 rubles. Future goals are to increase the amount of financial aid distributed.

Association of Spinal Disabled Charity Society
E.S. Muzychenko, General Director
Ul. Alliluiieva, 10-2
Vladivostok

home: 26-35-69

Caritas/Vladivostok

Caritas is an international European Catholic social service organization which operates through loosely associated indigenous chapters around the world. Caritas Vladivostok was established in September, 1993. Through the persistence of its founding members it has mobilized medical and other volunteers and used a small grant from CRS to launch two projects: 1) a clinic providing free medical treatment and psychological counseling for pensioners, children with disabilities, and low income individuals; and 2) monetary assistance to pensioners and families with many children for medicine and food. Caritas has many ideas for social service delivery that are constrained only by a lack of resources. In particular, they are eager to provide sex education and other services for teenagers.

Caritas Vladivostok
147 Svetlanskaia St, box 3185
Vladivostok 690001

Anastasia Potapenko
tel: (4232) 26-17-41
fax: (4232) 26-96-16
e-mail: [email protected]

Aleksandr & Vita Ramm
tel: 25-39-69; home: 69-00-62

Nastia Potapova
tel: 25-91-79

Catholic Relief Services

In March, 1992, CRS opened offices in Vladivostok and Khabarovsk to serve the entire RFE, becoming the first Western aid organization resident in the region. Working with the Department of Social protection, CRS during its first year distributed 30,000 metric tons of USDA food assistance to pensioners, families with many children, schools for people with disabilities, and hospitals. They also monetized butter oil to fund select social service projects. Since then, CRS has conducted two monetizations and initiated projects to improve services to people with disabilities, to provide preventative dental hygiene instruction to children, potentially to assist the Department of Social Protection with computerization. Current program funding will end in July, 1995.

Catholic Relief Services
Frank Carlin
Country Representative
2 Pervaia Morakaia St.,
Vladivostok, 680007

tele: 22-96-20
fax: 4232-22-45-52; 4232-26-19-82

Souvenir of Dalpribor

This charitable children's dancing ensemble is a joint stock company dedicated to the art of dancing. They train children ages 7 to 17 the basics of choreography and concert activities.

Children Dancing Ensemble Souvenir of Dalpribor
Irina Petrovna Shapovalova
Borodinskaia St., 46/50
Vladivostok

tel: 46-13-68

Children's Foundation, Primorskii Branch

Registered in March, 1988, the Foundation's purpose is to help orphans and children with disabilities. The Foundation has a staff of 5 full-time employees and 50 volunteers. It has provided 5,000,000 rubles in financial assistance as well as food and clothing to 20,000 beneficiaries. The Foundation also distributed humanitarian aid from New Zealand.

Children's Foundation, Primorskii Branch
Larisa Petrovna Serera
Deputy Chair
PO Box 2294
Vladivostok

tel: (4232) 22-78-83

Dialogue of Nations of the World

This Primorskii Region charity association was set up in August, 1991. Its charter goals are to combine the efforts of working bodies and the pubic to render charitable assistance to the needy. The association is engaged in developing and consolidating international contacts assigned to realize social, economic and ecological programs in the far east region. Founding organizations include Anna, Vostok, Insat, the Pacific Fleet, the Regional Children's Hospital, the juridical center, and the trade union of medical workers. The Dialogue has provided support services -- such as contacts, logistics, etc. -- to Western organizations, such as Catholic Relief Services, that seek to establish a presence in the Russian Far East.

Dialogue of Nations of the World
Nikolai A. Larionov
Chairman
1st Morskaia St., Apt. 108
Vladivostok 690007

tel: (7-4232) 26-59-36; 22-96-20
fax: (7-4232) 22-95-20

Good Deed Society

The title of the philanthropic organization Dobroe Delo means "good deed". The director, Vasalii Vitz, is determined to establish rehabilitation centers, including therapeutic massages, and workshops for people with disabilities to allow them to become more self sufficient. Potential trades include shoe and T.V. repair, and tailoring. In spite of Vitz's great enthusiasm for the project, he lacks backing, organization and funding, and remains highly skeptical of Russian government assistance.

Good Deed Society (Dobroie Delo)
Vasily Fitz
Beliaeva St., 4-20
Vladivostok

tel: 23-58-16

Krai Board of the Deaf Society

Evgenii Abramov
Chairman
24 Rokossovskogo, #24

tel: 33-89-03; home: 52-30-97

Orthodox Union of the Disabled

Registered in February, 1993, the Union has four full time staff, 10 volunteers, and 76 members consisting of 'believers and disabled.' Activities include providing financial and food aid to members, as well as "production activity and missionary activity." Future plans include creating a production/rehabilitation center for people with disabilities in Vladivostok as well as a boarding house for the needy.

Orthodox Union of the Disabled
Liudmila Mikhailovna Tokareva
Chair
65 Ul. Pologaia
Vladivostok, 690000 Russia

home: (4232) 27-72-09

Pervomaiskii Raion Society of the Disabled

One of the most active societies serving people with disabilities, they are currently engaged in advocacy and humanitarian aid distribution. To date, gainful employment has included machine-knitting and some shoe repair by people with disabilities. The Director has many ideas regarding future income generation, including opening a retail store. He is constrained by a lack of exposure to how things are done elsewhere as well as a lack of resources. The Society administered a donation of wheelchairs and medical supplies from CRS very efficiently.

Pervomaiskii Raion Society of the Disabled

Viktor Leonidovich Iarchenko
27 Ul. Oleg Koshevogo
Vladivostok

tel: 27-66-37

Pervomaiskii Regional Board of the All-Russian Invalid Society of Vladivostok

This organization unites people with disabilities and provides social and labor rehabilitation, industrial activity and sports.

Pervomaiskii Regional Board of the All-Russian
Invalid Society of Vladivostok
Viktor Leonidovitch Kharchenko
O. Koshevoi St., 27
Vladivostok

tel: 27-66-37; home: 27-01-78

Pervorechenskii Region Invalid Society

This charitable organization helps people with disabilities in all areas. It is funded through charitable donations.

Pervorechenskii Region Invalid Society
Liabov Shakhnazarova
100 Years Prospect, 36-B, Apt. 44
Vladivostok

tel: 46-15-10

Primorskii Foundation Against Drug Addiction and Drug Business

This social organization assists government bodies, militia and health service providers in fighting against drugs and drug addiction. It assists in providing the technical means to appropriate subdivisions of militia of Primorskii Krai; manages a ward for treating addicts; and runs a bank for keeping valuables.

Primorskii Foundation Against Drug
Addiction and Drug Business
Viktor Vasilievitch Zubov
Russkaia St., 55-A, Apt. 109
Vladivostok, 690105

tel/fax: 46-2-87

Primorskii Krai Board of the All-Russian Invalids Society

Viktor Dmitrievitch Lebedinets
Lugovay 83B
Vladivostok

tel: 29-36-16

Primorskii Krai Foundation of Mercy

Registered in October, 1991, the Foundation has a staff of five. Activities include "information and dealer's services" and providing financial assistance to people with disabilities or special needs. Its budget in 1992 was 600,000 rubles.

Primorskii Krai Foundation of Mercy
Valerii Leonidovich Gonacharov
Chair
1-29 Sukhanova
Vladivostok
tel: (4232) 26-58-65

Primorskii Krai Society of the Blind

Natalia Viktorovna Shvetsova
Okeanski Prospect, 109-19
Vladivostok

tel: 25-53-60

Primorskii Krai Society of the Disabled

The Society of the Disabled is a decades-old federal organization with state and district level branches. Due to both perestroika and economic constraints, the Society has become independent of the government. In Primorskii Krai, the Society registered in May, 1988, as a public organization. The functions of the Primorskii Krai Society are administrative. It claims a membership of 20,000 state-wide, including parents of children with disabilities, and a staff of 10 with an additional 320 volunteers. The Society's budget in 1992 was 740,000 rubles. It provided 50,000 rubles in direct financial aid to roughly 10,000 people. The Society would like to initiate local production of equipment for people with disabilities.

The poorly appointed office has only about four or five people to focus on employment of people with disabilities and training people to have work. Although not numerous, the staff has very up-to-date attitudes toward people with disabilities. Assistance includes everyday help, rent, heat, transportation, medical assistance, etc. The society runs a regional school for the blind. Business endeavors include making lids for bottles and jars, making and repairing electric appliances and lamps, and repairing telephones. They receive no government funding and have virtually no donors.

Primorskii Krai Society of the Disabled
Olga Nikolaevna Derevstova
Chair
83-B Ulitsa Lugovaia
Vladivostok, 690087 Russia

tel: (4232) 29-36-16

Krai Committee of the Red Cross Society

This committee of the Red Cross provides medical and social assistance to single elderly people and seriously ill in their homes. Also, they run a blood bank of 55,000 donor and upholds donor's rights. Finally, they provide financial and other assistance to the population in emergency situations. Other activities include managing and distributing donations.

Primorskii Krai Red Cross Society
Liudmila Mikhailovna Reshetnikova
Chair
23 Fokina St.
Vladivostok, 690091 Russia

tel: (4232) 22-45-05; 26-76-50
fax: 22-45-05

Primorskii Peace Fund

Larisa Konstantinovna Director
90 Okeanskii Prospekt
Vladivostok

tel: (4232) 25-33-46; 25-55-59
fax: 25-55-59

Primorskii Regional Association of Ex-Prisoners of Fascism

Registered in October, 1991, the Association has one full time staff, 7 volunteers, and 180 members who are ex-prisoners of concentration camps or former prisoners of war. Their main activities include "social and legal protection," historical research and financial and material assistance to members.

Primorskii Regional Association of Ex-prisoners of Fascism
Galina Nikolaevna Petrovna
Chair
20 Ul. Svetlanskaia
Vladivostok, Russia
PO Box 48-66

tel: (4232) 22-76-89

Primorskii Regional Organization of Professional Education Veterans

This Primorye branch of the federal organization has 2 part-time employees, 70 volunteers, and 850 members who are teachers. Activities include providing financial aid to single elderly people and veterans and locating work places for pensioners. The organization has distributed 275,000 rubles to veterans.

Primorskii Regional Organization of Professional Education Veterans
Andrei Petrovich Tkalich
Chair
93 Ul. Pushkinskaia
Vladivostok, 690001 Russia

home: (4232) 22-75-37

Primorskii Union of Victims of Chernobyl

Registered in April, 1992, the Union has 3 full-time employees who distribute financial and food aid to 1,235 members who were exposed to radiation at Chernobyl.

Primorskii Union of Victims of Chernobyl
Vladimir Fiodorovich Borodkin
Chair
20 Okeanskii Prospekt
PO Box 1559
Vladivostok 690001 Russia

tel: 22-28-00; 22-88-13
fax: 22-88-13

Russian Disabled Society

Viktor L. Kharchenko
Chairman
Pervomaiskii District Management
27 Olega Koshevogo St.
Vladivostok, Russia

home: 27-01-78
office: 27-66-37

Society of the Blind

Registered in April, 1925, the Society has a staff of 27, volunteers of 180, and a membership of 2,760 vision-impaired people. Activities include rendering financial and material aid. The Society's budget in 1992 was 2,011,100 rubles. The society runs a blind school for the whole region, which gives daily help, rent, heat, transportation and medical assistance. Although there is a central structure for tape libraries for the blind, there is a shortage of tape players.

Society of the Blind
R.G. Bogatiriov
Chair
10 Ul. Magnitogorskaia
Vladivostok, 690068

tel: (4232) 31-75-57

Society of the Deaf

Alla Aleksandrovna Babanova
27-a Ul. Komsomolskaia, apt. 63
Vladivostok, 690002 Russia

tel: 25-07-85

Society of Disabled of WWII

Registered in December, 1993, the Society has a staff of six and a membership of 550 disabled World War II veterans. Activities include selling food at reduced prices and providing holiday gifts to members. The Society's budget in 1992 was 110,000 rubles.

Society of Disabled of WWII
Larisa Arkadievna Zeleina
Chair
20 Okeanskii Prospekt, Apt. 504
Vladivostok

home: (4232) 46-36-78

Sovetskii Raion Society of the Disabled

Viktor Dmitrievitch Plotskii
Russkaia St, 74A
Vladivostok, 690049

tel: 46-30-09

Young Russia

This children and youth association plans leisure activities for children and teenagers, and conducts job placement activities on their behalf. At present, there are 1,500 children in the organization. They have hobby groups, sections, and provide social and domestic help to elderly.

Young Russia Children Association
Sergei Borisovich Eliseev
Director
Ul. Kazanskaia, 4/6
Vladivostok

tel: (4232) 21-37-67; 22-46-06

Governmental

Primorskii Region Administration

Liudmila V. Dobrovolskaia
Department Head
Public and Religious Organizations
Justice Board
22 Leninskaia St., room 911
Vladivostok, 690110 Russia

tel: 22-01-78; home: 25-92-69

Primorskii Region Administration

Anatolii B. Pekarskii
Head, Justice Board
Counsellor Justice State
Public and Religious Organizations Dept.
22 Svetlanskaia St.
Vladivostok, 690110 Russia

tel: 22-32-15
fax: (4232) 22-47-74

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