In Irkutsk, as part of the City Without Loneliness project, collection of New Year gifts for lonely elderly people has begun. You can bring home clothes, underwear, calendars, Christmas ornaments, scarves, shawls, children's crafts and greeting cards with wishes. Volunteers will give all collected items to grandfathers and grandmothers in the last week of December. Collection points are open at the Maria crisis center, the Right Bank district administration and several city libraries.
The project organizing committee, which includes employees of the municipal enterprise “GOROD,” has identified a possible list of gifts. These may include new home clothes, underwear, calendars, tabletop Christmas trees, Christmas ornaments (not glass ones), crossword puzzles, scarves and shawls, children’s crafts, and greeting cards with wishes for grandfathers and grandmothers (from a grandson or granddaughter).The collected gifts will be handed out by volunteers to grandfathers and grandmothers who are left alone during the last week of December.
To take part in the good deeds of our city, anyone can bring any of the items listed above to the following addresses:
· Crisis Center “Maria,” 16 Volodarskogo St., tel.: (from 9:00 to 20:00)
· Administration of the Pravoberezhny District of Irkutsk, 14 Marata St., office 110, tel.: 52-04-14 (from 9:00 to 18:00)
· Collection points in Irkutsk libraries (from 11:00 to 16:00):
— A.V. Potanina Central City Library, 32 Trilissera Street;
— Central Children’s Library, 35b Postysheva Boulevard;
— Library No. 2, 135 Barrikad Street;
— Library No. 5, 22 Sibirskikh Partizan Street;
— Library No. 14, 36 Ryabikova Boulevard;
— Library No. 31 “Alye Parusa,” 199 Baumana Street;
— Humanitarian Center — Family Polev Library, 80 Universitetsky Microdistrict, telephone: (3952) 36-95-66.
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In September 2014, the administration of the city of Irkutsk launched a new citywide charitable project, “City Without Loneliness.” The project is a series of events aimed at involving lonely people in the life of the city and creating conditions for the development and improvement of their quality of life. At the first stage of the project, active work is being carried out with lonely elderly people, children from social care institutions, and single mothers. These target groups need our help right now. Every day, new business entities, public organizations, and ordinary residents of our city join the project.
Within the framework of the project, a fair-sale of crafts made by children from an orphanage has already been held, free training in hairdressing, manicure, and massage has been launched for girls from orphanages, coupons for a free haircut have been provided for lonely elderly people, free tours of the city’s museums have been held, and trips to theaters have been organized. The next major event of the outgoing year 2014, important for lonely elderly people, is the organization of New Year’s greetings and the presentation of gifts.
According to the press service of the Irkutsk administration.