Heroes among Us — Learn How to Be A Volunteer
Volunteering isn’t a profession it is about following your heart. If you want to help someone in need but don’t know how to begin, then come to our event at the ZIL Cultural Centre. On the 4th June, HSE student organisations are running the ‘Heroes among Us’ festival with dozens of Moscow’s student charity projects.
Holding a festival to bring together youth charity organisations to exchange experiences and ideas was the brain-child of the HSE student organisations Otkroi Glaza (Open Your Eyes)and ICEF Outreach.
Within the university these clubs organise donor actions, charity cake sales and help for children in several orphanages.
At the festival, experienced volunteers can advise you about where in Russia, and in the world your skills, compassion and determination are needed. They will show you how to fill in applications to international volunteering organisations, where to go, how to help, how to prepare for trips which often involve surviving in a difficult environment, or how to be useful locally without having to go on a long journey.
At the fair, students can find out what kind of good works they could get involved in if they join a student charity. A marathon of short films will reveal true stories about volunteers and the little known area of charitable work. There will be a round table discussion ‘Invisible Barriers: how to drop your prejudices and just get on with helping’. Representatives from the major charities will be there — Artur Smolyaninov from Podari Zhizn (Gift of Life), Alina Vorobyova from Liza Alert,Ksenia Chudinova from Starost v Radost (Happy Old Age),Dmitry Aleshkovsky from Nuzhna Pomoshch (Help Needed),Yana Yurkevich from Galchonok Fundand Konstantin Sedov from Hospital Clowns.Representatives of the projects Bolshiye peremeni (Big Changes), Renova Group, Molodaya Stolitsa (Young Capital), AIESEC Russia and Street Templewill speak at the festival seminars.
The programme includes entertainments, master classes, a poetry evening, an exhibition of photographs and much more. Petr Nalitch, Caramba Cover and others are in the line-up for the charity concert in the Great Hall at ZIL to round off the festival.
Detailed information about the festival programme is available on the HSE website.
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