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

Preodoleniye-L

Director: Lydia Ivanova

Website: www.preodolenie-l.ru

This is a rehabilitation centre for children with disabilities, it has been successfully operating since it was founded in 1992. Children and their carers are offered an impressively broad programme of psychological support, inclusive pre-school training, physical & speech therapy, arts, music, drama and therapeutic horseback riding.

Preodoleniye-L believes that keeping a disabled child within the family instead of the system of State care is the best way forward. Their mission is to offer support and encouragement to all their families that choose this alternative and the many programmes that this charity offers aims to develop physical, creative, intellectual and occupational skills in order to facilitate future inclusion into society.

 

Other ARC Projects

  • A small musical theatre company for young people and adults with Downs syndrome.

  • 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