For several years now, HSE students from the Open Your Eyes Charity have been visiting friends in children’s homes sponsored by the organization: the Polotnyano-Zavodsky Children’s Home, the Yakhromsky Children’s Home, the Kolchuginsky Children’s Home for mentally disabled children and the Sobinsky Home for adults with developmental disabilities. Student volunteers organize various musical and entertainment programmes, plays, and educational and creative workshops. For this year’s New Year’s celebration they prepared a special fairytale programme with presents for children.
On December 17, a New Year's festival for children with disabilities attending the school of inclusive development, Dancing House, will be held at the HSE Cultural Centre. The event is organised with the support of the Centre for Local Community Relations. The charity event will include gifts for the kids, and HSE students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to donate.
On December 3-20, from 10.00-15.00 at different HSE buildings, you can donate gifts for the event:
- December 3 – 11 Pokrovsky Boulevard (atrium)
- December 4,5,6 – 21/4 Staraya Basmannaya
- December 9, 10 – 11Myasnitskaya Ulitsa
- December 11, 12 –3 Bolshoi Trekhsvyatitelsky Pereulok
- December 13 – 8/2 Malyy Trekhsvyatitelsky Pereulok
- December 16,17 – 4C2 Armyansky Pereulok
- December 18 – 26 Shabolovskaya Ulitsa
- December 19-20 – 17 Malaya Ordynka
Join us! Making a child’s holiday magical is easier than it seems.
Below is a list of suggested gift items.
Craft kits
- Embroidery kits
- Wooden Christmas tree ornament set (3+ and 8+ years)
- Quilling kits
- Soap making kits
- Diamond embroidery
- Paints (watercolor and gouache)
- Paint brushes
- Markers
- Colored pencils
- Pencil Sharpeners and related accessories
- Brochure springs — metal (black, yellow) and plastic — in size A4 and A5
- Transparent plastic paper covers
- A4 paper pads
- Laminated paper covers
Games / books
- Legos (various)
- Puzzles
- Stuffed animals
- Toy phones
- Puzzles, brainteasers, games (Rubik's cubes, etc.)
- Fidget spinners
- Diamond mosaics
- Children’s books (picture books, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, etc.)
Travel / camping supplies
- Mats
- Set of plates, mugs, spoons for hiking
- Compasses
- Balls, rackets, etc.
December 03, 2019