[CivilSoc] Russian NGO Assists Elderly, esp. Victims of Repression

[Civil Society International]

Dr. Eduard Kariukhin, gerontologist and president of the Russian
noncommercial organization Dobroe Delo, (Good Action or Good Deed), has
announced the opening of its website: www.dobroedelo.ru.  An English page
can be found at www.dobroedelo.ru/text5.asp.
Good Action, was registered in Moscow in February 2000. Its goals are as
follows:
* To help improve the standard of life of elderly people who were victims of
totalitarian regimes, by offering medical and social help and assisting in
legal rehabilitation.
* To aid the development and strengthening of the gerontology NGO sector
across the country.
* To conduct research in the field of social gerontology.
* To carry out other charitable work that becomes necessary.
In order to meet these aims, the charity's tasks are:
* To organise medical and social help to elderly people (who were victims of
political repression) within their homes.
* To provide advocacy to help our clients claim judicial rights denied to
them by totalitarian regimes.
* To help workers in the NGO sector concerned with elderly people to study
and gain necessary qualifications.
*To organise academic research in the sphere of social gerontology.
*To provide printed material which is necessary to the different programmes.
The founders of the organisation are two doctors (specialists in
gerontology) and a nurse. They have significant experience in charities
working with elderly people who were victims of repression, both in Moscow
and in the regions, particularly the Urals and Siberia.
The organization receives funding from the Charles C. Mott Foundation in the
U.S.