Facilities - Irkutsk - Orphanage #5 (Facility Code: 11)

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Orphanage #5 has 101 children.

Orphanage Activities

     Music                                                                                          Dance

  Children's Day Celebration  

                                                                       Oksana is a 2006 graduate and is now           Speaker                          Speaker

                                                                       attending a university.

      Dining after the program          Director Margarita Galstyan

The Sport Ground (The result of a Rotary Matching Grant)

 Information about Orphanage #5

                                                                                  Rotary Club

                                                                  5 Ñhaikovsky str, Irkutsk, Russia, 664029 

                                                          Tel/fax (3952) 382-689, e-mail: molga@hotmail.ru

     Orphanage #5 was organized in 1945 as a facility for orphans with some kind of illness.  In 1947, it was reorganized into a sanatorium type orphanage. At present the orphanage accepts children with no parents, parents who are absent, parents deprived of parental rights or parents who are imprisoned or have severe illness. These children have been diagnosed for different illnesses: TB, oncology, epilepsy, cardiovascular diseases, neurology, gynecology, allergy, HIV, and others.

       The director of the orphanage is Margarita Galstyan.  The staff is highly professional (more than half of them have university education, and are qualified in a specific category of special education and medical care. They are: psychologist, speech therapist, ‘defectologist’, social worker, counselor, sports instructor, music teacher, craft teacher, arts teacher, caretakers, tutors and homework teacher.  Nineteen staff members have been working in the orphanage more than 10 years. The staff of teachers, trainers, medical personnel, teachers’ and trainers’ aids, cleaning ward are loving and dedicated to the children.

       Food and lodging, building maintenance, medical care, teaching and learning equipment and materials, also the staffs’ salary are subsidized by the government. There is no additional money in the Orphanage’s budget to provide extra.

              At present there are 101 kids in residence, ages 3-19.  27 of them are in an on-site kindergarten which has 3 group levels to prepare children for school. 74 kids are elementary, secondary or high school students.

        Since 1993, the orphanage has been organized into six family units of 15-17 children with full time ‘professional’ parents.  Children who are siblings are kept together, others are placed according to their psychological disposition.  Each unit is separated into a ‘flat’ which has all facilities of a home required for the social adaptation of every day life.  Each has a living room, kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, play room(s), study room and bedrooms for 2-8 persons each.  

         The orphanage has offices for assessment and treatment, library, music/

assembly room, arts/crafts room, sewing and woodwork shops, medical unit (including dental, massage and other different light treatment). 

         The club has been sponsoring Orphanage #5 since 2003. In 2005 musical instruments were purchased with a grant provided by OrphanAct. In 2006 RC Irkutsk got à MG (USAID/IREX, DSG, ORPHANACT, RC “IRKUTSK) for the Orphanage. The funds were used for the new sports ground. In 2007 Rotary District 5370 (Canada), the “Wild Rose” Foundation (Canada), and RC “Irkutsk” completed MG “Passenger van and Musical instruments for Orphanage #5”.

         Rotarians visit special events held in the facility, such as Christmas celebration, Art and Handicraft exhibits, Children`s Day, the beginning of school year. They also bring there visiting Rotarians from Canada, USA, Finland, etc.

       Irkutsk Rotary club has a committee which monitors all provisions to the club projects for the Orphanage. The committee members are: Denis Kosinov, Tatiana Shestakova and Sergey Nikiforov. Director Margarita Galstyan and Deputy Director Elena Sholokhova are very cooperative and helpful. Many club members have developed strong relationship with the kids, administration and the staff.