the results of the second in this year’s competition of presidential grants fail in Russia today. For supporting struggling more than 11 thousand projects — a record number. In the first contest of the year more than two thousand Russian organizations have got to implement their ideas more than 4 billion rubles. Thanks to these tools, in the village of come mobile museums and published in books, and children with disabilities become fashion designers.
a Letter of a schoolgirl of Julia, written in 2020 and sent to the front. It and hundreds of other modern messages, of course, will not come to the front 41 and will not be able to save those lives, but they get to keep another memory, including, those, who are current students have never known.
“When we got 500 letters, it was something incredible. Tears were welling up in her eyes, heart beating in a different rhythm. And then we decided it was not originally foreseen — that it is necessary to publish a book,” says the head of the portal “Gifted children” Marina Volynkina.
This book during the isolation has already been published in two languages. Reviews from residents of Belgium, Germany, Turkey, USA. The “Letters to the front” only one of the many projects of the all-Russian portal “Gifted children”, which is implemented by a Presidential grant for the development of civil society.
the Dean of the faculty of foreign languages Institute of humanitarian education (IGUMO) Oksana Kuren says: “we Have both blogs and chats, and lots of competitions organized every year. And the guys, and now many tens of thousands on the portal, interact, feel, what they need, what they develop, what they can communicate.
Webinars, workshops and competitions — all on a single portal accessible to all. One of the projects in offline mode — summer school “Patrium” for children from all over Russia. This June, the hallways and classrooms of technology, which is a summer school, empty — all because of the quarantine. But in the coming months, the leaders promise to re-open the doors of the Institute and to receive all those who have long been familiar in absentia in the online portal.
“students have the opportunity to come to Moscow, to meet, to participate in such projects. And of course, we every time come to Moscow, go to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We’re going to Victory Park, and is one of the important components of the tour that we are implementing in the framework of this project.” – said Marina Volynkina.
In Rostov one of the recipients of presidential grants was the project “Art show. The don patterns” — creativity and fashion with a local flavor and a personal touch. The videos created by participants of the project, no lectures, oral explanations, written for children with hearing disabilities. They are taught to sew, to embroider, to do painting on fabric, and then and personally present their works on the runway. For some children, this becomes not only a hobby, but a real possibility in the future to master a popular profession. “This seamstress, painter, theatrical designer, and fashion designer. And just these professions are trained in our Rostov school named after Grekov. We have a whole Department there. We thought to interest children in such professions that they thought it possible,” said project leader Tatiana Novoselova.
the winners of the presidential grants of the Vladimir launched the project “Mobile Museum” for those who have no physical ability is not what to visit a city but even to access the Internet. The staff of the “Museum of the spoon” come to the nursing home, nursing homes, boarding schools and remote villages. Doing the seemingly impossible — in towns and villages hundreds of kilometers from Vladimir conduct a full and interesting excursions for those who can’t hear or see.
“Thanks to the support of the Fund for presidential grants, we bought special equipment and now traveling with “Mobilem Museum” in boarding schools, where visitors with reduced function of vision, we can make additional material — three-dimensional image. Can we not just give the subject in hand, but to give to him the accompanying information,” — says the founder of the “Museum of the spoon”, the head of the project “Mobile Museum” Tatiana Pikunov.
all in All, only the first contest of the 2020 presidential grants received more than two thousand organizations throughout Russia. Total annual Fund about 8 billion rubles. This is money that will go to support young talents, environmental protection, for projects in the field of science and arts, sports and medicine, for the preservation of historical memory and the development of Russia’s civil society.