Pain of our time

Orthodox church in Russia always pays attention to the problem of children living without parents. Thats why there are many orthodox orphanages in different parts of Russia. Svyato-Dimitriyevskiy orphanage in Moscow and Otrada orphanage in Maloyaroslavets, Pavlin orphanage in Moscow and Dom Miloserdiya in St. Petersburg are among them.


For example, living in Svyato-Dimitriyevskiy orphanage is as living in a big family with children and adults. Girls go to school regularly and go in for music lessons and dancing. They are taught to cook, clean the rooms, wash up and so on. They like holidays such as birthdays, Easter and Christmas and like to prepare for the holidays. Girls also go to the theatres and museums. From time to time they are invited to the houses of the staff or church-goers.

The main purpose of all orphanages is to find a family for every child and they do their best to do it. About 60 children constantly live in Dom Miloserdiya. Since the foundation of it in 1995 185 children have been returned to their native families and 35 children have found their new mothers and farthers. We have known that rather famous Moscow archpriest Dmitriy Smirnov oversees three orphanages www.youtube.com (Archpriest Dmitriy Smirnov is Pozners guest, 19 March, 2012).