Advocacy and Mentoring

How are we helping these young people navigate the troubled waters outside the institutions they’ve known?

Another ongoing facet of this ministry is taking aim at a more aggressive approach to the orphan graduates' transition and integration into society, taking the form of a more specialized and focused life-skills, and marketplace skills training program.  One of the most valuable forms this program takes is through seeking Russian mentors to walk alongside the orphanage graduates, teaching various skills, but perhaps more importantly modeling a responsible approach to living independently, while at the same time acknowledging how desperately we all still need the support of one another in the context of community.   

In addition to video production, we’ve used a wood-working shop and a ceramics studio which have proved valuable in this effort.  

This ministry is currently seeking support, national partners, and advocates intent on assisting these young adults in their battles with a system that often further victimizes them by denying them rights to employment and property.