Charity Work Plan

On 14th of February in BIS there was a number of fundraising activities held including Valentine’s dicso, non-school uniform day and themed bake sale. Approximately 20’000 rubles was collected in profit and I along with with Alyona Sukhova and Polina Semochkina were trusted to send with money to charities. 

Two charities that we decided to sponsor were “Kto esli ne ya?” (“Who if not me?”) organization and “The Call of the Wild” dog shelter. 

“Kto esli ne ya?” is an official organization that helps the children of Moscow’s orphanages by uniting volunteers and giving them various opportunities to do charity work. The program that we chose to directly contribute towards is called “Podari Prazdnik” (“Gift celebration”) and it involves volunteers buying presents for children. On the organization’s website there is a list of children from different orphanages with their birthdays in closest months and their present requests. It really staggered me how little do those children want. Something so simple and ordinary like a pair of sneakers is desired by 14 year old Elena V. We intend to give that to her as well as: 

• A board game for Alexandr (24.03.1999)
• Flats for Alyona (30.03.1998)
• Summer flat shoes and a manicure kit for Marina (31.03.1999)

After this we will wrap those items up and send them to the organization’s main office. From there packages will be distributed to orphanages by a group of volunteers responsible for that. 

“The Call of the Wild” is a dog shelter in Odintsovo region, 20km from Moscow to the East. It counts over 200 dogs in need and welcomes any sort of help that is offered. On their Facebook page they have posted a list of things that are in great necessity. Those include warm clothing and blankets, conserved dog food and basic medicine. 

During the last week before holiday Polina Semochkina and I have asked all the students of BIS to bring in warm blankets that their families will not need. Apparently, a vast majority of students needed ALL of the blankets that they had. We have only received a donation from Van der Meer siblings, an anon who chose to simply drop his blankets at Mr. Carruther’s room and Sofia Chelombieva who made a flat donation of 500 rubles. 

Nevertheless most of BIS students contributed towards raising substantial finance by coming without school uniform. 

Capital raised will be spent on dry and conserved dog food as well as antiseptics, bandages and healing creams. We then intend to pay a visit to the shelter to pass items to it’s director - Elena, whom I have already contacted about the details of our arrival.