Altai Children´s School of Arts for orphans and children from underprivileged families.

ALTAI SCHOOL AND ROTARY CLUB OF BARNAUL REQUEST $12,000

Description of the school:   
A rural children's  school of art is quite generally a very rare occurrence in  Russia.  Basically, rural kids practically don't have any possibilities  to receive a  basic professional  education  in  art. Aya is set  in an area  that is well known for tourism and some farming.   But they don't have much at all in terms of industrial  production  or services of almost any kind  so  projects that can help kids have a musical  or artistical background really help.     

PROJECT REQUEST:

Now the students and teachers have a dream-- to create a school  folk instruments orchestra  .  As is well known, it would be great if dreams came true.     We are suggesting that you take part in this unique project.  Purchase of note stands, a special acoustic system and several different musical instruments.  

HISTORY OF RELATIONSHIP WITH SCHOOL:

In the course of 5 years th Rotary Club of Barnual has done 3 projects with the  Aya  school.  

The first  project  was  the purchase of a piano,  which was bought with the help of a matching  grant.   This project immensely  helped  the  development  of  the children's institution and set off a wave of  further philanthropic deeds among  the locals.   Due to these events,  the school finished building another structure that  had been dormant for several years with the help of  staff, students  and  locals all  helping out. 

The second  project,  what  we called  “Altai  Toy”  was  the purchase of an  kiln for baking the clay toys,  also with the help of  a matching grant.   Once this oven was in place the students were then  able to receive  training  in the trade of  artwork to   make  some  toys  and artwork  for sale  to  tourists.   

Our third project,  done with the help of  OrphanAct,  was the purchase of a  heating  oven “Buleran” ,  which greatly  shortened  the construction  of  another  new building for the school.  

UPDATE ON SCHOOL:

Each new  school year began with  more and more good news.   With the expansion of the school  more qualified  music  teachers  started  working  there.   Now kids can learn  to play on the saxophone  but they  can do so only by using their teachers'  instruments  because  nobody there has enough money to buy  them  for themselves.  For  a good education it is of course better  when both teachers and students have their own instruments.  

COMMENTS:

We're  grateful  for everything you've already done for  our children and  for whatever help  you'll be able to  support us with our children  in the future.   

Best regards, 

Inna  Gorbatenko