Today we will describe the old age in joy charitable foundation operating in Moscow. Its history began in 2006, when a freshman-philologist named Lisa Oleskina went to folk practice. While searching for folk songs, the girl visited a rural nursing home. Returning to Moscow, she did not forget the sadness and poverty reigning in this institution.
History
The future founder of the Old Age in Joy charitable foundation Lisa tried to find organizations that provide assistance to older people in Moscow, she did not succeed, and the girl decided to act independently. In May 2007, a girl on a social network published an invitation to everyone to celebrate Victory Day together by visiting a veteran’s house near Moscow.
To the surprise of Lisa, there were many who wanted to. By the end of the year, a group of people gathered around the girl who wished to provide targeted assistance to lonely old people. Then Lisa decided to return to the previously visited nursing home, which is located in the Pskov region. After that, she and a group of people went to the next institution of this type.
There were many such stops. Sometimes provincial boarding school workers asked to visit the next. More often, Lisa and her friends searched for nursing homes on their own, using oblast sites and address books. The team gradually grew, and in 2011, the Volunteer for Joy fund for helping older people was created by this volunteer movement.
Since then, much has changed - programs of material and medical assistance, organization of rehabilitation and leisure have appeared. Fund branches arose in institutions that contain the weakest grandparents. Some of them have babysitting organizations and monthly care products and medicines.
One thing has remained unchanged: every weekend, volunteers of the fund go to nursing homes, arranging a celebration with a concert in them. In addition, thousands of letters are sent monthly by remote grandchildren to correspondence grandmothers. At the moment, the organization oversees 150 boarding houses from 25 regions of Russia.
The fund pays for the work of about a hundred additional care assistants, as well as cultural workers for the weakest old people. The organization pays for care products, as well as medicines for nursing homes and hospitals.
Mission
The main objective of the Old Age in Joy fund is to improve the living conditions of older people who are in nursing homes, as well as to reduce the emotional vacuum that the elderly fall into after boarding. The organization participated in the creation of a assistance system at the state level.
Representatives of the foundation take as a basis for their activity the provision that all people deserve to live with dignity, especially in old age. In this organization, older people are not divided into rear workers, veterans, disabled children and military widows. Help is also provided to everyone, regardless of whether the person is at home or in a special institution.
The fund has 20 permanent employees and over 170 assistants throughout Russia. At the same time, more than 20, 000 volunteers provided assistance to this organization at least once.
The foundation team is attended by high-level specialists. The fund has its own translation and analytical base. The project is assisted by programmers, lawyers, economists, translators, and analysts. The organization organizes educational projects in conjunction with the Vera Foundation, a Senior Group company, the Alms of Mercy almshouse, and the School of Sisters of Mercy.
Programs
The Old Age in Joy Foundation implements several projects at once. The “Communication Celebration” program involves organizing trips to nursing homes with events with stars and concerts. The project “Grandchildren by correspondence” allows you to send a letter to single elderly people.
"Daily Care" is a program for the selection and training of additional staff, as well as providing care and rehabilitation facilities. The Cozy Home project includes redecorating and overhauls in institutions where older people are held.
As part of the "Medicine" program, an examination is carried out, as well as treatment in leading clinics in Russia. The Leisure project includes psychological support, art therapy, attraction of leisure organizers, creative and craft workshops.
Command
Elizaveta Oleskina is the director of the Old Age in Joy fund. Alla Romanovskaya leads the direction for interaction with philanthropists. Alexey Konstantinov is the executive director of the fund. The coordinator of the volunteers was Anna Khateeva. Development Director is Natalia Ostanina. Anna Rulko runs the Leisure and Daily Care programs.
Marina Yasenskaya is responsible for the medical field. She is a candidate of medical sciences. Anna Zakharova heads the analytics and training department. Alexandra Kuzmicheva is a specialist in the field of SMM and PR.
Sofia Lahuti collaborates with the fund as an analyst. Anna Remezova is a translator. Ivan Zverev leads the direction of IT. Mikhail Viktorov is a technical specialist.
Help
There are many ways to support the Old Age in Joy fund. Donations by electronic money, transfer and cash are accepted. You can support the project with basic necessities, transport, a trip to a nursing home. Everyone can make something unusual with their own hands or help by profession, on the basis of intellectual volunteering.
The foundation team will gladly welcome new members. Everyone can help in another way, for this it is enough to contact representatives of the organization and state their idea. How donated assistance works and where donated funds are spent is easy to follow. The foundation regularly publishes detailed reports on its work.
