Within a month, activists raise 85,000 roubles to help Russian-speaking elders in Caucasus

Yulia Orlova and Natalia Nesterenko, staff members of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", have launched an independent project "Let's help the Russian-speaking elders in the Caucasus". The project is aimed at providing help to elderly people living alone in Chechnya, most of whom are representatives of minor ethnic group of the republic. The donations collected online will be spent for food, medicines, tickets to visit family members, improvement of welfare, and assistance of psychologists and lawyers.

The project "Let's help the Russian-speaking elders in the Caucasus" was launched on September 4.

To raise the money for the implementation of the project, its initiators use the socio-service platform "Planeta.ru". As of September 30, the activists have raised the amount of 85,700 roubles.

Yulia Orlova has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that they raise the money for the project through so-called crowd funding, i.e., voluntary donations of people, when "every little helps". Everyone can effect a payment through credit cards, electronic money and a mobile operator.

The initiators of the project hope to raise for the project at least 700,000 roubles.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.