Annual Report 2016
About us
Maria’s Children Art Center was founded in 1993 by a
Nowadays Maria’s Children is the oldest
Our programmes in 2016
Daily art classes at the studio
Our studio is open for children and graduates. The kids attend painting, ceramics, tapestry, felting, handicrafts and music classes. In June we held art-workshops for children from the neighborhood.
Classes at Maria’s cottage workshop
Twice a week children from orphanages of Moscow and Moscow region learn to work at a potter’s wheel, master the art of mosaic, stained glass, ebru and many other kinds of applied arts.
Education and social assistance
At the request of the young people we attract volunteers - individual tutors who help them complete the secondary school curriculum. Our social teachers assist the high school students and graduates in setting up their homes and finding jobs, arrange visits to museums, theatres, sport activities.
Professional development and psychological support of the orphanage staff and teachers of the Beslan School №1
In March a group of teachers from Beslan and staff members of the PELICAN Foundation went on a study tour to Barcelona, where they visited a local school and the city’s museums.
Winter Camp
In February 2016, twenty children from orphanage Sputnik spent a week at our camp in Sorochany. They played sports, learned to cook, took part in performances, improved their drawing skills. The orphanage graduates helped as volunteers.
Maria’s Children - to the children of Beslan
In April a group of our staff members and volunteers from different countries paid its tenth visit to Beslan, where they held various master-classes for pupils of the School №1. Our visit to the “Hury Tyn” children’s home and an orphanage in Dur-Dur village was organized by former students of the Beslan School №1 who are currently our volunteers.
Hello, England!
In April-May 2016 a group of children and volunteers participated in the Shakespeare’s Drama Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon for the sixth time, the group gave its first performance at the Shakespeare’s school. In London they also had a busy cultural programme.
Annual festival “Ship of our Hopes”
In May our children, volunteers and staff sailed to the Bay of Joy where everyone could join an exciting quest, play outdoor games, enjoy a delicious picnic, paint en plain-air and feel the delight of spending a whole day on the lap of nature, among friends.
Italian Holidays
In June a group of children from the orphanage “Solnyshko” (Filimonki settlement, Moscow region) and three graduates of the Beslan school №1 travelled to Italy. On Sicily the young people learnt to surf, painted en plain-air, practiced acrobatics, staged performances. We also continued painting the walls of l’Aquila basketball club, restored after an earthquake, and visited Rome’s most famous historical sites.
Summer camp “Our Family”
In July 37 children from two orphanages, psychoneurological institution and Beslan’s school №1 spent two weeks at “Sorochany” resort in the Moscow region living in family groups, doing arts, learning to cook and playing developing games. Orphanage graduates and former students of the Beslan school helped us as volunteers.
Wall painting
In January we painted the walls in the children’s orthopedic department of the Russia’s Ministry of Labour Hospital, in April — in the gym of the Beslan School №1 and in September — in the Ostrov psychoneurological institution in the Moscow region.
We express sincere gratitude to those who helped us and are now supporting our work with children!
We express gratitude to our corporate donors who supported us in the outgoing year
- AbbVie LLC
- Agency of Marketing Initiatives
- AgroTerra Group of companies
- Alstom
- Apple
- Aqua Logo
- Baring Vostok Capital Partners
- Beeline
- Beko LLC
- Bloomberg LP (USA) Rep. office
- CAF (Charities Aid Foundation)
- Café AnderSon
- Charitable Fund “Planeta dobra”
- Charitable Fund Chance for Life (
UK) - Charity Education Support Fund “DAR”
- Coca-Cola
- Compuling Group of companies
- DIXI Group
- DLA Piper
- Dushevny Bazar
- Embassy of the
Republic of Korea in Moscow - Ernst and Young
- Fenix Film Company
- FRESH Restaurants
- Grishayev Malyarenko & Partners Advocate Bureau
- Gruzovichkoff
- infoDonor
- InfoSec
- Internations
- Investmanagement
- ISK Euro-Police Information Insurance company
- Jones Day Limited Partnership (
USA) Moscow - Katerina Hotels and Katerina-City M
- KPMG Fund
- LAVKALAVKA Farm restaurants
- LEO-N LLC
- MDM Bank
- Megafon
- MF Group
- MIR – amici de “I bambini di Maria” Onlus
- Mon’delez Rus LLC
- Morgan Lewis International LLC
- MOSKAPSTROI – TN
- Otkritie Bank
- Parexel
- Philanthropy Infrastructure
- Promod Rus
- Rosbank
- Rosinter Restaurants
- RusHydro
- Russian Wine House Abrau Durso
- Sagitus, Moscow
- SBERBANK INSURANCE
- SBERBANK PRIVATE BANKING
- SBERBANK
RUSSIA - Severstal
- SGS Vostok Ltd.
- Side agency
- Sorochany Hotel Complex
- Spasskiye Vorota Insurance group
- SPN Communications
- Teatr.doc
- The
Anglo-American School - The Patch
Adams Gesundheit! Institute - UNIWEB
- Uprava of Tverskoy district
- Utair
- Wse Wmeste Non-commercial partnership
- Yandex
- Yandex.Money
- YPO (Young Presidents organization)
- М2М Private Bank
