Rehabilitation center for women subjected to domestic violence. Crisis Center for Women and Children

In October, another crisis center for women in Moscow began its work - the "Movement for the Defense of Childhood". This is a charitable organization for mothers who find themselves in a difficult life situation. It is absolutely free and exists on donations.

For 7 years now we have been helping families who, oh, how hard it is. There are all sorts of stories, - says the coordinator of the public organization "Movement for the Protection of Childhood" Sergey Pchelintsev. - Very, very many mothers in our country need help. And not some difficult, but the most banal - to gather children to school, find winter boots for the elder, buy firewood for the stove. There are even more difficult tasks - to help restore a burned-out house or make repairs, because the guardianship authorities are already threatening to take the children away, to pay for the electricity cut off for debts, otherwise the family will freeze. Stock the refrigerator, sit with the children so that the mother can go to restore some documents. Or you need to urgently treat children, go to Moscow for examinations, but there is no one to stay and no money for a hotel. We have long wanted to open a shelter for mothers with children in Moscow. And now, finally, there was such an opportunity.

A small two-room apartment on the first floor of a house in Izmailovsky Proyezd - and the Moscow office of the "Movement" and a shelter at the same time. Office in one room. In the other - a bedroom with folding sofas, a bathroom, a tiny kitchenette in the aisle.

In total, no more than three mothers can fit here, ”says Vera Komarova, a volunteer employee of the Moscow branch. - If suddenly there will be more, then here is another sofa in the office. You can spend the night, and in the morning we will call our colleagues and put them somewhere.

In a couple of weeks of work, the services of the center have already been used by five women with a variety of stories.

One refugee Lyudmila. She came with all her belongings, a 7-year-old daughter and a dog. She has three more children in Donbass. It is clear that they do not have enough money, but simply do not have it. According to the rules, you can stay with us for no more than 5 days. She needed so much - and while our daughter and dog were with us, Lyudmila dangled to the migration center, solving problems with documents. She says she found a good job in Lipetsk and a dorm room. From us they went for the rest of the children, we gathered food for her as much as we could. On the way back, she said, they will all live with us together. Children at least show Moscow, since there is a place to spend the night.

Another woman is Olga Eremenko from the Far East. Her fourth child was born with a rare disease.

They arrived in Moscow to the hospital in the summer, but were delayed to take some tests and wait for the results before flying back home. We not only sheltered them, but also dressed them - they have all the things that are summer, light. They gave a huge bag of children's clothes with them - for other children.

One mother, whose first and last names were asked not to be named, lived only a couple of days.

She called at three in the morning from the hospital, where she ended up after being beaten by her drunken husband. She came to us by taxi all in tattered clothes, with bruises and abrasions. Cried all night. In the morning I went home and, while my husband was away, took some things, passports and my daughter from the kindergarten. The next day her parents came from Voronezh to pick her up. She said that she would not return to Moscow anymore, she would build life from scratch in her small homeland.

Every day, women from all over Russia call the help center. But volunteers are waiting not only for them, but also for people who are ready to give things to needy families.

We have two collection and sorting points in Moscow. We take everything. And the remaining building materials after the repair. And notebooks, backpacks - this stuff is always needed. Bed linen - pillows, blankets, curtains, carpets. Cereals, canned food, baby food, diapers. And, of course, clothes for both children and adults - in a wearable condition. We sort everything and send it to where it is really needed.

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The Movement for the Protection of Childhood has volunteers in almost all regions, information can be clarified on the official

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