The statistics are heartbreaking: only 4 out of every 100 orphanage graduates become productive members of society. The remaining 96 tend to adopt an asocial lifestyle and fall into alcoholism, drug addiction or even end up having to report to the authorities. This is often the case due to the fact that, when an adolescent leaves a state-run orphanage, he or she finds himself or herself alone facing the adult world, a world he or she is not yet prepared for. They are very easily influenced by antisocial circles and do not know who to turn to for help. They don't know how to plan a budget, how to apply for an allowance or even where to buy furniture. In order to prepare children and teenagrers for adult life, the Foundation Polza runs a programme called "Social Adaptation", which teaches them the most basic skills necessary for their future development and well-being. We teach the children and teenagrers the most basic and simple things, such as how to look after themselves (their skin, their body and their personal belongings), how to calculate a budget, how to cope with money, how to cook and buy food on a certain budget, as well as how to do sports and lead a healthy lifestyle. We have also created an online programme called "We are together", which aims to provide a common space of support for young people who have graduated from orphanages.

Mums and dads raising children with special needs are constantly stressed and living on the edge. Every day they have to deal with issues related to the survival, rehabilitation or treatment of their child. Being a " resource", remembering to take care of themselves is something that these parents lack energy, time and money for. Thus, we would like to help adults to breathe out, see themselves as beautiful and young, shake themselves up and replenish the much needed inner strength to create a positive atmosphere at home. We would like to help them find a second wind and the courage to continue to fight for the health and life of their children and to keep the family together.

We do the same for mothers in difficult situations - we let them catch their breath and find themselves again. This is exactly the kind of feedback we received after the first stream of the "New Me" online course.

The "New Me" course aims to support women in gaining new knowledge and skills to learn a new profession or find a job/ part-time job in today's modern environment so that they can support themselves and their child(ren) or family independently, even while staying at home. Moreover, we want to help women to believe in themselves again, to feel needed, beautiful and self-sufficient.

Unfortunately, the image of a hero among today's children is formed on the basis of American films. 10 out of 10 surveyed young people under the age of 20 do not know about the Pskov battalion's heroic deeds, while in the year 2000 (just 22 years ago) all members of this battalion were awarded the title "Hero of Russia" (posthumously). At present, the activities of the vast majority of military patriotic clubs and communities are reduced to laying flowers at memorials and visiting museums (which are undoubtedly important activities), but we wanted to go further than that: we introduce schoolchildren to real Heroes of Russia, thereby teaching and encouraging them to be heroes themselves, regardless of the times and circumstances.