Our projects

All of the ARC-supported projects have been chosen with great care.

All of these Russian initiatives seek to improve the lives of disabled and underprivileged young people and their families through the provision of education, physiotherapy and psychological therapeutic methods.

Projects
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Open Art Theatre

Director: Oksana Terechenko

A musical theatre group for young people and adults with Down syndrome, this inspirational project is unique to Russia. The actors and musicians constantly rehearse in order to perform an impressive range of regularly-staged productions. In 2010 they presented Carmen and The Princess and the Pea, both of these were performed before a variety of different audiences. They pursue a policy of performing in Russian schools, in order to raise public awareness of Down syndrome.

Other ARC Projects

  • Rehabilitation centre for children with special needs. They also run a successful hippotherapy riding centre.

  • Project works with young people who have been through the State care system of children’s homes and internats.

  • The essential mission of Krug is to work towards the integration of children & young people with special needs and their families, into Russian society & culture. 

  • Sunny Dogs is an independent NGO that selects and trains special dogs that will become either guide dogs for the visually impaired, assistance dogs for the physically disabled or therapy dogs for children with special needs. 

  • A Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Special Needs, they also run a busy and successful hippotherapy riding centre.

  • ARC is funding a two-year course of UK-practitioner methods of physiotherapy-ergotherapy, led by Dr Klochkova & a team of specialists from The Mechkinov Academy in St Petersburg.

  • Led by Kit Loring, The Ragamuffin Project provides Creative Arts Therapy to children as well as training, clinical supervision & professional consultation to adults