Global Reach: Past Grantees

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Russia

Context:

In Russia, there are over 500,000 orphans. However, 95% of them have living parents who, for various reasons, are unable to take care of them. Only 10% of Russian orphanage graduates are able to fully adapt to independent life after leaving institutional care. Only 2% of orphan graduates enter universities compared with 45% of young people who grow up living with their families.

Organization:

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Russia (BBBSR) was established in 1992 to bring BBBS International’s widely respected model of one-on-one adult-youth mentoring to Russia. BBBSR partners primarily with internats (institutional residences for abandoned/orphaned children) and local schools, as well as local government education and social service agencies.

Current Grant:

EMpower’s 8th grant to Big Brother Big Sister Russia supports the organization to implement key components of its new strategic plan (fundraising and communications) and to develop and launch a public communications campaign to raise its profile, recruit individual donors and rebalance its funding base.

Where is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Russia?

Primary Location: Moscow

Website: http://www.bbbsi.org/

Funded Since: 2007