THE FINNISH CHILDREN AND YOUTH FOUNDATION

SUOMEN LASTEN JA NUORTEN SÄÄTIÖ		
BARN OCH UNGDOMSSTIFTELSEN I FINLAND

Application Form
Support to the children and youth in Karelia and Vyborg region.

All amounts are to be given in EURO.
	1.	Name of the project:
“Istoki” (“sources or springs”) – a joint summer camp of the Christians of Petrozavodsk and children of Pudozhsky region in Karelia in Vodlozersky National Park	
To be able to complete this form you should first read guidelines & requirements (found in separate documents).
	2. Starting year: 	2005
3. Ending year:	2005
4. Total budget in euros 5000	5. Amount applied for in euro:
2 050	
6.Name of the Organization (for NGO). 

Spiritual and Educational Orthodox Center of Petrozavodsk and Karelian Diocese (Russian Orthodox Church) – 
Hereafter “the Center”	7.Address, Telephone Number, Fax Number and E-mail Address of the Organization (for NGO) or a contact person (for groups of citizens)

Petrozavodsk, ul. Kirova, d.57
Tel. (8142) 705998
Fax. (8142) 769940 (for Alexandr Svirsky Centr)
e-mail: iessey@sampo.ru	8.Project Director's Name, Position and Qualifications 

Viktor Zarovnyaev,
Vice-director of the Center,
deacon	
9.Background of the Organization (Please attach a copy of the registration papers) The Spiritual and Educational Orthodox Center in the name of St. Alexander of Svir was created in 1993 as a voluntary organization . About 100 kids attend the Center.  Many of them are from one-parent, poor or problem families, some ones are orphans.
There is a group of 15 pre-school kids (aged 4-7) .
Now the main activities of the center  are: 
•	religious, cultural, and historical education for adults and children;
•	aesthetical, moral upbringing of environmentally and historically conscious children and teenagers; 
•	cooperation with the state educational system;
•	summer camping and holidays for children and teenagers organizing; 
•	social help to the elderly people and families and children at risk (including convicts);
•	library work;
•	organization of cheap pilgrim travels;

Several studios are operating now at the Center including 2 choirs, a drama club, a carpenter and carving workshops, an embroidery workshop, a painting studio, and a gardening club (the three latter ones and one of the choirs have opened this academic year). Most of the work is done by volunteers.

The local press has several times published articles (some of them enclosed) about the Center – notwithstanding the fact that our personnel don’t pay much attention to publicity. 

	10.Describe all previous  funding

It’s the first time we apply to a fund. We conduct summer camps annually on self-financing, with the voluntary materials and finance help from different government and non-government organizatioins, private persons. This year we wish to switch to out-of-town summer camping, which drastically raises expenses on transport, equipment, guiding and, to some extent, food

 	11.	Project Dates 

25th July – 5th August 2005	

Content
12. Goal of the project:
To continue the activity of the center , to work with the children without interruption during summer holidays, to work out a model of camping (with some elements of scouting and ecological tourism). 
Camping as the most interesting type of activities for teenagers would be combined with moral upbringing and environmental and patriotic education; acquaintance with Pudozh region people and their ways of life. It would help to overcome the social misplacement of the at risk children and teenagers.	
13.Summary of the project description:
Vodlozersky National Park annually organises and hosts a number of environmentally profiled summer camps. The shift around August,2 (which is the St. Elijah’ day) traditionally prepares Ilyinskjy pogost (St.Elijah Churchyard) for the festival which gathers many people from Karelia. In 2005 the Park offered the Center this time and place for a summer camp together with kids from Pudozh region, because it is natural that this Christian place will be prepared for a Christian festival by Christians. This shift will partly be typical ecological camp with hiking and boat tours through virgin nature, and partly will teach children Christian basics as well as history of the country. Many participants will receive first skills of living in a forest, and there will be unusually many possibilities for the city dwellers to bath and swim. Some time each day will be spent on volunteer work around the churchyard and about the camp. The participants will carry the image of pure nature and skills of keeping it pure through years and other camps, hopefully less expensive. 
	
	14.Project Justification (in the context of why/how your project is a contribution to the improving the over all situation of children and youth in Karelia, in what way the program is preventive, please describe the need or problems the project will solve in your region and its target groups) Is the project nationwide or local?
During 12 years the Centre   organize summer holidays for the children. Usually they spent summer time in the town (for example, in 2004 the Centre managed to take the children out to a swimming pool only twice or in some monasteries.
The planned camp would be the first out-of-town camp on a Vodlozero island. It’s a  national ecological park in Karelia famous for its cultural and educational activities.. At the same time we’ll make our best to teach kids good behaviour towards people (as we used to previously) and nature. So, we’ll try to make a good summer camp model for many a year ahead – with the help of Vodlozersky National Park. Communication with local children will take away some prejudices and would help  making friends. Besides, many children are from families with the lack of possibilities to communicate. An out-of-town Christian camp is a good place to learn how to solve communicative problems in the spirit of love. 	

15. Expected Results. Sustainability of the activity. (Please include discussion of how you expect the results to continue after this funding is spent). Following up the project. Indicators and criteria.
 
We expect to get and teach skills of organizing interesting and useful forest children camps, without any harm for nature, as well as of living in a tent etc. We know from our experience that this camp light goes with people through life. Criteria: good marks at exams at the end of the camp, sustaining friendship between campers, good marks in Biology at school. Other results: environmental consciousness, staying away from addictions, ecological “descents”  in Petrozavodsk, knowledge of the Commandments and local history. Contacts with Pudozh.	
16. Who are the project's target audiences? The direct beneficiaries /the indirect/
How many persons under 20 yrs are going to be directly involved in the implementation or running of the project?
20 children and teenagers from poor and problem families from Petrozavodsk and 16 from Pudozh region. (lists of the kids could be sent later).
Indirectly it would influence their families and local population in Vodlozero village.	
17.  How are you going to inform about the activities and results of the project? 

Mass media: “Karelia” newspaper, the Centre booklet, Karelian radio, KROMO “Ravnovesie” site www.balance.sampo.ru, Petrozavodsk diocese site www.eparhia.ru 
Leaflets. 	
18.	How will the objectives be achieved? Provide a detailed description of the activities and their relevance to the objectives.

See enclosure “Program” (attachment 1)	
19.Does the project suggest volunteers’ activity? Provide a detailed description of the volunteers’ activities and their relevance to the objectives.

Camp participants will work without payment in a Vodlozersky National Park territory – on the island where it will be situated (garbage collecting) and on Elijah churchyard territory (preparation for St. Elijah’s day), as well as help supplying the camp with water and wood. One of the project goals – to get acquainted with North Russian country ways of life which implies such work and has been traditionally connected with the above mentioned festival. Besides, the participants will learn to cook meals without electricity which will help in other such camps, to spend natures resources deliberately and caringly, to tidy up.
	
20. Describe your project’s partners, provide the detailed description of their contribution to the project

1) Vodlozersky National Park
Address in Petrozavodsk: Parkovaya, 44
Tel.: (8142) 764271
Tel\fax: (8142) 764379 
Onega: nab. Popova, 5
Tel.\fax: (81839) 20156
 Kuganavolok of Pudozh region:
Tel.: (81452) 20184, 20110, 20116
Provides its tourist base on Kolgostrov island and guides, organizes meals, transport from Shala, directs the practical and environmental components.
2) KROMO “Ravnovesie”: informational help
3) Petrozavodsk and Karelian diocese: 
Petrozavodsk, ul. Pravdy 5
Tel. (8142) 571789, 562651, 578069
Fax. (8142) 769940
e-mail: eparhia@karelia.ru
Transport to Shala, informational help	

Participants
21. Project leader
deacon Viktor Zarovnyaev
Vice-director of the Center
Address: 185013 Petrozavodsk, ul. Zhukovskogo, d.63A, k.85
Tel. 8911 4112693, 8911 4026568

 

	22. Responsible organisation/Administrative body:
Spiritual and Educational Orthodox Center of Petrozavodsk and Karelian Diocese (Russian Orthodox Church)
Contact person (responsible for the contents and finance of the project):
deacon Viktor Zarovnyaev, Vice-director of the Center
Dmitry Dubrovin e-mail: dubik@onego.ru
Petrozavodsk, ul. Chaikinoy 1-29

* Name, institution, address, telephone, fax, e-mail.	* Institution, address, telephone, fax, e-mail 

23. Co-financing:
Inner sources (the Center),
Parents,
Vodlozersky National Park
	
24. Will there be an evaluation of the project ?
Vodlozersky National Park
Petrozavodsk and Karelian diocese
KROMO “Ravnovesie”
Commission on human rights (commission member A.S. Gezalov) 	

Budget
Detailed description in EURO
Expenditures	Persons or units/days	Cost of one unit, expenditure on one person	Source of financing	Total	
			Parents or guardians	The Center	The Park	Finnish Children and Youth Foundation		
Food	36/12	3.36 	1450				1450	
Materials (paints, paper, balls etc.)	36/12	0.28		121			121	
Medicines 	36/12	0.28				121	121	
Household expenditures (toilet paper, washing materials etc.)	36/12	0.28				121	121	
Renting:
Tents
Sleeping bags 
Mats	
12/12
36/12
12/12	
3.36
1.4
0.84	

604		
483

121		1209	
Transport:
Bus from Shala
Big boat (SMN) for 15 people excursions
Little boat (Kazanka) for daily shipment of food etc.	
2 times
60 hours

50 hours	
125.9
14.55

13.71			
	
252
873

686	1810	
Salaries:
Camp director
Cook
Doctor
Motorist
Tutors	
1
1
1
1
2	
41.97
41.97
27.98
22.38
16.79		

33.58	
41.97
41.97
27.98
22.38
		168	
Total			2054	154.58	738.3	2052	4998.88	
Comments on expenditures: Materials, medicines and household expenditures are counted according to Russian Federation camping regulations. For detailed explanations, please contact Alla Gudyn, vice-director of Vodlozersky National Park (see telephone numbers of the Park in Petrozavodsk)

39. Comments on funding 
                             Applied for:    2052                                                                  Granted:	

40.	Enclosures to the application: 
a) Detailed project description
b) Detailed budget in EURO	

41. Applicant:	42. Date and signature of the applicant: 	
List of attachments 
For NGO: registration papers, letters of support, information about NGO.
		
•	name, institution, address, telephone, fax, e-mail
Finnish Children and Youth Foundation
Yrjцnkatu 29 A 3
00100 Helsinki, Finland
fax: +358-9-618 21 200

Karelia 
Petrozavodsk, Anokhina,20, r.405
Olga Zvyagina, Veronika Grigorieva
e-mail: olga@euronorth.ru, zolga03@onego.ru
veronika404@yandex.ru
tel.+7-921-45-28-908
tel. +7-911-413-61-07