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The IWC's Winter Bazaar comes up on November 28 at the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel

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Published: 25.11.2015 | 10:00

Source: TRCW & IWC

The International Women’s Club of Moscow (IWC) is hosting its 27th annual Winter Bazaar on Saturday November 28, 2015 at the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel at Europa Square 2.

The Winter Bazaar is the IWC’s largest charity fundraiser, an important social and cultural gathering for the international community in Moscow.

Embassies from all over the world sell their traditional products and food, and many of them lend their country’s musicians, dancers and other performers for the event’s cultural program.

Local and foreign visitors enjoy the warm atmosphere, wander the fragrant halls of the Winter Bazaar and discover exotic holiday gifts and nostalgic goodies from home at the diverse embassy stands.

Under the direction of the IWC’s new President, Ms. Victoria Seligo, Spouse of the Ambassador of Slovenia, we strive to make the 2015 Winter Bazaar even more successful than previous editions, which raised a profit of 7.04 million rubles for the charity projects monitored by the IWC, thanks to the support of over 70 embassies, approximately 3,500 visitors, 600 of volunteers and numerous generous sponsors.

This impressive fundraising effort will not be possible without the strong commitment of the business community in Moscow. Every year wonderful prizes, kindly donated by businesses and embassies, inspire visitors to buy tickets. The resulting raffle income is significant contribution to the overall Winter Bazaar result. The IWC Winter Bazaar strengthens the Club’s long tradition of international friendship, solidarity and cultural exchange.

IWC CHARITY PROJECTS for 2015-2016

The IWC Charity Group is an integral and vital part of the IWC. The Group mainly focuses on charities that are supporting children. In many cases intervention can be life-changing – for the child, for the family and beyond. We support:

· children in poor or unstable families,

· children in orphanages or other institutions,

· children with medical needs.

A third of our funds go to the elderly and destitute (pensioners, homeless etc).

Our aim is to support the charities in a well monitored way, therefore we not only give the donation in exchange of receipts of purchase but we also monitor the charities via monthly on-site visits. We are also audited by a third party auditor on a yearly basis!

PROJECT NAME	PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Children in care
Mother Teresa’s Home for Orphans	IWC provides funds for art and craft supplies for children with developmental and physical disabilities.
Salesian Fathers’ Foster Home	Around 40 ‘social orphans’ living with foster mothers in a safe and caring environment. IWC helps with food and household expenses.
The Promise/Obeshchanie (Riazan province)	Provision of portage sessions to 3 disabled children at Yelatma orphanage to develop skills such as sitting, walking, talking and feeding themselves.
Children in families
Tourmaline Social Rehabilitation Center	A day-center for 42 mentally and physically disabled children and adults who receive education, social therapy and learn crafts. IWC provides warm lunch and drinks.
Metis Food Bags	Charity Fund "Metis" is helping children from mixed families whose fathers left to their motherland and do not support their families. IWC provides the children with food support.
Rehabilitation Center Aurora	A center for women who have come out of prison to help them reintegrate into society and reunite with their families. IWC provides funds for computer classes.
Food for Needy Students	The catholic center provides lunches on Sundays and food bags for very poor foreign students from Africa and South America. IWC provides funds for some of the lunches.
Big Change Educational Center for Russian Orphans	The center provides education, mentoring and life-skill coaching for orphans who are about to start an independent life out of orphanages. IWC provides funds to pay for three mentors.
Neznaika Shelter	IWC provides the shelter with funds for food for migrant families (mostly women and children) without Moscow residency and/or living in crisis situations.
Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy - Children Hunger Assistance Program	Bi-monthly approximately 140 food bags are provided for single parent families and large families with low income.
Children in medical need
Speransky Children’s Hospital - Thermal Plastic Sheeting	IWC provides funds for the sheeting used in the treatment of burns to prevent hypertrophic burn scars and contractures.
Speransky Children’s Hospital – Medical Materials	Special creams, ointments for burn victim children for better healing
Speransky Children’s Hospital - Theatre Project	Puppet shows are provided for children in the Burns Unit as part of the play therapy program which has proved to be a vital part of the recovery process for children suffering from trauma (two performances per month)
Operation Hope	Provides shunts for the treatment of premature babies with hydrocephalus. IWC sponsors 100 operations.
Elderly and destitute
Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy - Food Bags	Handing out food bags every second week to pensioners and poor families.
Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy - Medical Advice Center	Free medical clinic for refugees, migrants and the homeless. IWC helps with subsidies for prescription medicines are provided for patients who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
Desnitsa Mira	IWC provides funds for monthly food bags for 36 needy pensioners.
Church of Birth of Mother of God (Yaroslavl)	IWC provides funding for food for five men with no income who are restoring the church.
Night Bus	IWC supports the distribution of food and toiletries for up to 200 homeless once a week.
Italian Food Bags	Italian nuns supporting 70 homeless, elderly people and 10 very poor families with basic clothing, food and medicine.
St. Egidio – Dom na Nagornoy	Rehabilitation program for homeless women. The aim is to reintegrate them to society.

Your support is highly appreciated by all the supported charities! Should you have any questions, please contact us at: iwccharities@gmail.com