Charity Drive for Beslan Kids: the first results
Publishing house Independent Media has launched a charity drive to provide emergency medical aid to children injured in the Beslan tragedy.
The initiative, which is being coordinated with LifeLine, a Russian children's healthcare program*, will raise funds for Beslan children in the special burn unit at Moscow's Speransky Children's Hospital No. 9 and other children's hospitals.
IM newspapers The Moscow Times, Vedomosti, The St. Petersburg Times, Na Rublyovke run a series of print and online appeals as part of the drive and got an active response from their readers. The biggest donation has been made on behalf of a 12-year old girl from New Jersey. At the end of September, donations of our readers amounted to more than $16,000 and they continue to come into LifeLine's account.
More than $27,000 has been donated by Independent Media. Half of the sum as well as books, toys, video- and audiocassettes, and other useful things were donated by its employees in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In total IM attracted more than 1,200,000 rubles ($43,000) to the project.
Independent Media and Russia Profile have also collected information on other charity organizations which gather money for Beslan children:
*LifeLine is administered by the Russian office of the Charities Aid Foundation, a British-registered charitable foundation working in Russia since 1993.
Photographs by Sergey Andrianov, CAF
The initiative, which is being coordinated with LifeLine, a Russian children's healthcare program*, will raise funds for Beslan children in the special burn unit at Moscow's Speransky Children's Hospital No. 9 and other children's hospitals.
IM newspapers The Moscow Times, Vedomosti, The St. Petersburg Times, Na Rublyovke run a series of print and online appeals as part of the drive and got an active response from their readers. The biggest donation has been made on behalf of a 12-year old girl from New Jersey. At the end of September, donations of our readers amounted to more than $16,000 and they continue to come into LifeLine's account.
More than $27,000 has been donated by Independent Media. Half of the sum as well as books, toys, video- and audiocassettes, and other useful things were donated by its employees in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In total IM attracted more than 1,200,000 rubles ($43,000) to the project.
Independent Media and Russia Profile have also collected information on other charity organizations which gather money for Beslan children:
*LifeLine is administered by the Russian office of the Charities Aid Foundation, a British-registered charitable foundation working in Russia since 1993.
Photographs by Sergey Andrianov, CAF
