LOVE RUSSIA CHARITY

We're all feeling it. Fuel, food and energy price hikes are having a devastating impact. When your income is just £76 PER MONTH, like some orphanage leavers we support, or you're running crisis centres that feed 80 mouths daily, this pinch is unimaginable and unmanageable! This summer we opened our 'Hardship Fund' to send further support for the increased needs our mentors and those they help are experiencing. These foods are the go-to items when living on a tight budget. The

Alexei is an orphan. He has been known to Slava (one of our mentors) for some time through regular visits to a college where many orphans live on site. He has learning disabilities. Alexei is no longer under the state's care so now lives alone in a small bedsit that historically belonged to the family he never knew. As a toddler, he was placed in an orphanage because his mother was an alcoholic. His bedsit is primitively furnished and dark because the utilities have been dis