In October 2023 our team held a festival for 200 teachers of Mariupol (a gift for Teacher’s Day). We tried to fill the participants with positive emotions, create conditions where people could relax and enjoy the celebration. And we did it! The guests left happy and inspired.
Thanks to the young volunteers, high school students of Mariupol, they supported their teachers in word, deed, and heart!

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Ekaterina is a volunteer from Krasnodar.
“Mariupol is my first volunteering experience. Almost everyone who learned about the trip was worried about me and was against participating in the project. Starting with parents and ending with teachers at school (I work there). I received support only from my husband, although he was worried, but despite this he let me go and took care of our children himself. When I returned home, I couldn’t stop talking about the trip to everyone I met.”

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The eighth trip to Donbass opened with a Festival for students in grades 9-11 from different schools in Mariupol and surrounding areas. "Fest" is a great platform for young people to meet and express themselves creatively, as well as an opportunity to learn about our project and join the team as volunteers. About 200 high school students took part in the festival.
From October 9 to 13, 600 thematic master classes were held in schools in Mariupol, Sartana, Stary Krym and the village of Yalta, in which 1,800 students in grades 1-8 took part. All our events are filled with positive emotions that help children heal, recover, and bring back their childhood.
For the first time, about 50 parents of our wards joined as volunteer assistants. Moms and dads accompanied the children to the master classes and shared with their children the joy of overwhelming emotions.
2023 has been declared “the year of the teacher and mentor” in Russia. This theme inspired us to come up with a special gift for Teacher's Day - "Festival for Teachers". 200 teachers and educators participated in the festival program and received gifts for Teacher's Day. Young volunteers took an active part in the preparation and holding of this holiday, giving the teachers care, attention and a lot of positive emotions.
The most touching event of the season was the informal final meeting with the teenage volunteers. More than 150 people took part as volunteers this season. Smiles, infectious laughter, tears of farewell, words of gratitude, plans for the future - all this indicates that young people are recovering, gaining strength and are ready to help others. By helping others, they heal themselves.
Thanks to the project partners, 4 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred to schools and kindergartens in Mariupol: children's shoes, sweet sets, books, cosmetic sets, household items, toys and help for kindergartens.

The next trip to Mariupol will take place from October 5-15, 2023. Volunteers from different cities of Russia gather into one team with one goal - we want to help.
This is not curiosity, but participation in trouble, tragedy. Step by step, house by house, family by family, restoration is underway. This process without our participation is painful and long.
If you want to help, then do not be shy and do not hold back your heart and hands from a good intention. Hurry up to do good!
Perhaps you know someone who is ready to help, but doesn’t know how, where or to whom. Give them this information.
People like to do good. Don't let this video stay on your phone - he's looking for his man. Maybe it's you, or maybe your friend or acquaintance.
Launch the boomerang - come with us to Mariupol!

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We are starting preparations for a new meeting with the children of Donbass (end of September- beginning of October).
We are preparing a program, selecting a team, looking for sponsors, have applied for the #Myplace award.
The project team is replenished with young volunteers from the cities of Donbass. And I would like to compare them with the phoenix bird: they are reborn, reborn, gain strength and hope.
For Mariupol schoolchildren, our meetings are already long-awaited (it will be the 8th trip), as they really support both children, parents, and teachers.
More than 6,000 children have already taken part in the "Dobro in Donbass" project. With each trip, the number of participants is growing, and the geography is expanding. We strive to reach children from different areas of Donbass, support them and help them.
Join our team, it all starts with a desire.

The two-day meeting between junior and senior volunteers was full of varied and interesting activities. Junior volunteers held a quest for seniors, which helped to strengthen the team spirit and develop leadership skills.
All participants played a game in the seaside park, which was a great way to spend time and have fun. After ending the day with guitar songs, the volunteers received t-shirts and gifts in appreciation of their participation.
On the second day of the meeting, junior and senior volunteers had active games on the football field, which helped to develop their physical endurance and cooperation. After the games, they went to the sea and held games and competitions on the beach there as well.
Summing up, we can say that this two-day meeting was a complete success, bringing joy and benefit to all participants.

We want to express our sincere gratitude to our partners United Confectioners LLC, who regularly support children and teenagers of Donbass with their products! Sweets for children are associated with joy, celebration, childhood and adult care.

Thank you for becoming part of our team and participating in the formation of faith in the power of goodness and the importance of supporting one's neighbor among children, and adults too.

From May 31 to June 07 we brought the 'Festival of Kindness' to 6 schools and 3 kindergartens in city of Mariupol.
At least 1800 children took part in our events.
We delivered 1500 kg of humanitarian cargo.
32 volunteers from different cities of Russia: from Chita to Krasnodar were mentors for children and teenagers.
Training was conducted for 150 local teenagers. Of these, more than 100 people became part of our team and took an active part in the festival as volunteers.
We understand the need for further assistance to Donbass and have a vision for the development of the project until at least 2025:
- apply for participation in grant competitions;
- we systematically train high school students from Mariupol schools who want to be project volunteers;
- we regularly search for financial, informational, material and other partners of the project;
- we develop social networks (website, VK community, TG channel, YouTube channel);
- we are expanding the geography of our project, developing new districts and schools of Donbass.

This is a short story about Maxim. He lives in Mariupol and joined us as volunteer while we were there. By helping others he got healed himself.

"When I grow up, I want to become a volunteer!" - say the children in Mariupol.
These words are the greatest reward for us!
Carefully adjusting the "Volunteer" badge, we understand that we are at the right time in the right place.
Volunteer Svetlana, mother of 8 children, from the city of Chita (6,800 km from Mariupol). She is already preparing for her third trip to Donbass.
What can move her thousands of miles from home?

What wish can a girl of 25 make on her birthday?
You can learn about it from the video of our volunteer Tatyana Khodyreva. Thank you, Tatyana, that you care!

Our team received an unusual letter from an ordinary pensioner, Sergei Volkov.
He wrote a book with lullabies, fairy tales and poems for the little kids. He asked us to give the book to the children of Donbass as his support for them.
Good emotions are what we try to bring to children, and this book gives such emotions, so it will definitely go to Donbass to children!

During our 4th trip to Mariupol in February 2023 we organized a festival for teenagers from different schools.
How it was and what the teenagers said about it is in our video.

You are also welcome to watch it on Youtube.

Thank you letters from schools: №60, №34, №41, №14 and kinder-garden №21 "Rainbow" in Mariupol (Donbass area).

February 02-11, 2023 we visited city of Mariupol in Donbass area for the 4th time. We're preparing video report about our trip, that will be published a little bit later.