📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The project is organized in cooperation with the charity foundation for helping elderly people 'Old age is happy age' and a retirement house in village Maryovo (450 km from Moscow).
💼 What the programme involves
Minor repairs in rooms of residents and in territory of retirement house. Residents of retirement house are lonely elderly people who hasn't left their rooms and house for ages, that is why the interior is very important for them. Volunteers should be interested in spending time with the residents, taking them for a walk, doing any craftwork, singing, listening to their stories, talking and playing with them because grannies and grandpas do not get much of attention and miss the sympathy and interest of other people.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Living in building of school. Please bring your sleeping bag and tourist mat. Cooking ourselves in turns. Showers with hot water are available. Only mobile internet.
📍 About the location
Maryovo village is located 450 km from Moscow in Novgorod Oblast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryovo . Nearest cities are Veliky Novgorod and Valday. To reach the place volunteers need to take night train from Moscow (6 hours). Meeting point will be in Moscow on 31 July afternoon.
Free time activities: On Saturday volunteers will visit ancient city Valday with museums, Iversky monastery and monuments of World War. At free time walk in forest, visit of village, picking of mushrooms and berries, meeting with locals.