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The social rehabilitation group for young people Rostochek would like to say a huge THANK YOU to the students of the All-Russian academy of trade of the Ministry of economic development for the wonderful celebration that they have organised for us. It was a great way to welcome spring. It was fun to sing songs together, dance and celebrate! thank you for your kindness and your time. We look forward to see you next time.

The masterclasses with the tutors from Taganka children's fund who have attended and shared their ideas at the Festival of Leisure clubs of Taganka district has been a great success! We are very pleased to have such amazing experts working in our team.

Taganka children's fund is pleased to invite families with children 2-18 y.o. to celebrate the day of the curiousity! The event will take place on the 2nd February at 5pm at Marksistsky per 3. Children and parents will have an opportunity to try sculpting, safe chemical experiments, foreign languages, guitar playing, acting, drawing, professional advice and enjoy the interactive programme of events. We look forward to see you there!

We are pleased on announce a new group for children - Paper arts. Children will try applied ornaments, paper construction, origami, cross-cutting and other techniques. These classed will help develop such skills as: - attention, patience, persistence - movement and speech - coordination, memory and logic - abstract thinking, creative thinking. We invite children from 6 y.o. to come join us. Please sign up by calling +74959117449 or +79653524451. The classes will take place twice a week at Marksistsky per 2.

We are pleased to invite you to join our new group: Mother and baby classes for parents with children from 1,5 to 3 y.o. The main aim of the classes is to learn how to stimulate your child's development (speech and brain development) through games and activities. The experienced instructor will tech you to: - play with your child with the help of articulation; - fingers play; - play active games to develop mobility, rhythm and listening - develop sound and sound repetition; - develop colour, form and size understanding; - develop speech and voluptuary; - to draw and understand composition. Please sign up by calling +7 495 911 74 49 or +7 965 352 44 53 The classes will take place once a week and will last 1 hour. The cost is 1,600 rub. per month.

Rostochek group for young people with disabilities has celebrated the New Year with a lot of positive emotions. Both young people and their parents/guests have really enjoying staging and watching the Sleeping beauty play. While trying on various roles and going through different life situations, the young people have learnt new reactions and attitudes to the events, and discovered new opportunities in building relationships and self-realisation.

As you know, TCF's 'Warmhearted workshop' runs a project called Help yourselves, which provides additional work for mothers that can't work full time. Please take a look at a wonderful selection of festive souvenirs that the workshop has produced. Please get in touch to order your tree decorations, candy flower bouquets and other handmade crafts. Call us on +7 (495) 9122718 and (495) 9117449, or e-mail : 2951525@gmail.com By buying the produce of the workshop, you are helping the families in difficult life situations. The Help yourselves project is possible thanks to the generous support of CatFoundation and CAF Russia.

The National Foundation for rehabilitation development invites you to join a free education project - the Workshop of Good. It is open to young people with disabilities between 12 and 25 years old. Young people can learn computer skills (multimedia and design) and basic drawing and painting skills. Additionally you will have an opportunity to visit the Tretyakov gallery and its branch accompanied by the arts lecturer, as well as get advice on career opportunities in web-design, production of video and animation. The course is 1 year (November 2017 - November 2018). The classes will take place twice a week: 1 computer class and 1 drawing/painting class. All materials will be provided by organisers. The training is free of charge. The classes will take place in the scientific library number 1 at Dubininskaya ul. 20. It is fully equipped for wheelchair use. The lecturers include certified pedagogues from the School of digital arts Codabra - http://www.codabra.org/, who have been trained as multimedia directors, painters and arts experts for Tretyakov gallery. At the end of the course each participant will be expected to complete one real job for a real client (a calendar for the next year). More information is available at http://www.fondnfr.ru/news/otkryt-priem-zajavok-v-masterskuju-dobra-185.html Please send your enquiries to info@fondnfr.ru with the Workshop of Good as a title of the message. You will then be invited for an interview. We look forward to meet you soon!

On the 16th November Taganka children's fund took part in the Round table discussion at the State Duma. It was devoted to the theme of Overcoming social orphanage in Russia and developing social services market. The programme director of TCF Sergey Borzov made a presentation at the event. As the outcome of the meeting, all participants have highlighted the importance for development of the Expert council on the issues of families in difficult life situations and improvement of demographic situation.

The next seminar of the programme took place on the 14-15 November. This time our colleagues from the Moscow-based schools spoke about professional communication with children, i.e. how to ask questions in a right way and how to answer to the wrong questions. Topics of the personal positions in social work, professional values and motivation of clients have also been raised. How to motivate people and what is detrimental for it featured highly on the agenda. The experience of such charities as Semya from Moscow and the Road home from Cherepovets have been discussed as examples of already realised programmes. The next meeting will be devoted to planning case work: how to set up objectives for your work with the family in question, how to share responsibilities with the family, how to make sure you suggest the correct services and other.