In our charity work, we focus on the following marginalized groups of individuals:

1. Children from poor and unstable families, living in orphanages and/or in need of medical assistance;
2. Elderly and destitute (pensioners, homeless)

Additionally, the donation of clothes, shoes, blankets and all non-perishable food items are welcomed and immediately passed on to those Projects and individuals needing assistance. The list of supported Projects for 2023-2024 can be found below.

There are many different ways in which to help. Please find your unique option from the following options:

• buy Raffle tickets for your chance to win fun and unique items at any IWC event;
• participate in any Charity Event such as a Masterclass, Lunch, Iftar, etc;
• donate any sum, privately--every little bit counts;
• invite your friends and business associates to Charity Events or to support our initiatives through donations of funds or unique gifts and/or experiences;
• help organize a Charity event at your Embassy, gallery, or business property;
• donate your pieces of art, talents or skills for unique experiences, or non-logo products from your home country;
• volunteer your time and personal skills with pensioners or children;
• donate gently used clothing, shoes, or non-perishable food items at IWC events or institution of your choice;
• YOUR OWN IDEAS

If you want to get involved in a charity, help support our work, or volunteer your time to our efforts, please contact us-- iwccharitycc@gmail.com
Our IWC Charity Committee would be pleased to answer your questions, take your suggestions and coordinate with you for future fundraising event ideas.

Tourmaline was founded in 2003 in Moscow. Its main goal is the improvement of people’s lives through rehabilitation, work and social integration.
Among other creative activities, volunteers and benefactors have lunch together. They set the table, clean up, teach social skills and norms of behavior at the table. IWC has been financing food and drink supplies for these lunches since 2013.

Charity Fund "Metis" has existed for over 20 years helping children from mixed families whose fathers left to their motherland and do not support their families.
Children are brought up by single mothers and sometimes by grandmothers. They are low-income large families and some of them with disabled children.
Metis is involved in different programs: educational, food support (IWC), organization of parties for those children and others.
IWC has been supporting this organization providing food bags for those families since 2015.

Don Bosco is a Charitable children Center named after Ioann Bosco (was founded in 1995), supporting 12 children living in two flats on Malaya Gruzinskaya and another 40 receiving food. Later in 1999 with a sponsorship help - an old kindergarten was bought and rebuilt. The center started to operate in 2001 and received donations from IWC.
It’s not an orphanage, but a shelter run by a Catholic order, as children live there up to 3 years, many of them have parents, which at the moment cannot take care of them.

The assistance that IWC provides is threefold.

Firstly, IWC is financing the rent of a flat for homeless individuals
Secondly, IWC is assisting with the services rendered by the Community of St. Egidio. During the Covid- 19 pandemic, many organizations stopped the distribution of food, parishes closed and restaurants shut down making it difficult to find food in the city. It became increasingly difficult for the poor to find help easily. In this situation, the Community of St. Egidio in Moscow decided not to close its facilities and actually intensified its efforts and increased its availability to the city's homeless. Currently, St.Egidio volunteers distribute meals on the street, maintain a laundry center, provide basic legal services and provide haircuts to those needing it.

And thirdly, IWC is helping with the financing of "humanitarian kits" (each costs around 300 Rubles) for about 300 people per week. This "kit" includes a hot meal, fruit, canned food, wet wipes, a bottle of water, bread, disinfectant, etc.

As many residents of Moscow will attest to, inflation has caused the cost of living to skyrocket and a simple meal costs much more than before. This, coupled with a the increased number of individuals needing assistance, has made IWC support even more necessary.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Community of St.Egidio increased its services in the city of Moscow to respond to the new needs and the new poverty created by the economic crisis. Among the new projects launched, there is the "Center on Giliarovskij", a center where the elderly, the poor, and large families can come to collect a package of food and clothes once a month. The project, which requires a special place to store food and clothes has also become an eco-sustainable project. In fact, the center has become a place where anyone can bring used clothes, which are rearranged and donated. The center, which is open twice a week for visitors, currently has about 500 members enrolled. In the center, customers can choose and try clothes on, like in a real boutique. This choice is much appreciated by visitors to the center, also because it restores dignity to the people marked by need and poverty.