Sanctions hit charitable foundations and NGOs in Russia

Sanctions hit charitable foundations and NGOs in Russia

Sanctions hit charitable foundations and NGOs in Russia
Russian non-profit sector (NPO), which develops charitable projects, has faced a serious threat.  The sanctions did more than just reduce the amount of donations that various foundations received from businessmen.  The main problem is the supply of medical equipment and medicines, including those that had already been paid for earlier.

According to representatives of NGOs in response to a survey conducted by the representatives of the Public Chamber (360 organizations), private donations from individuals have decreased by a third.  The withdrawal of payment systems from the Russian Federation led to the fact that it was almost impossible to transfer money from abroad from foreign philanthropists.
The only way to raise funds, which turned out to be the most reliable in the current conditions, is subscriptions through the websites of charitable societies.
The Sib.fm media outlet quotes the words of Ksenia Aleshina, who heads the “Tomorrow Will Come” fund in Novosibirsk.  The Foundation organizes the treatment of children suffering from cancer.  According to her, the life of many patients was divided into time "before and after."  The employees decided to organize “days of help”, when a psychologist can work with people.  Many children and parents found themselves in a state of panic and increased anxiety, while the forecasts for the development of the situation look disappointing.

According to Viktor Dmitriev, the head of the ARPM (Association of Domestic Pharmaceutical Manufacturers), the industry is forced to solve the problems of payment and delivery of raw materials, without which the production of pharmaceuticals is in question.  Those stocks that were previously purchased in Europe will last for several months.  Whether enterprises will be able to get raw materials later is unknown.

Ksenia Ziborova, Director of the “Paper Crane”Charitable Foundation, informed Rusbankrot about the problem of delivering high-tech prostheses from abroad, which are in dire need of the wards.  It has become difficult to deliver goods to Russia, despite the fact that money for the medicines and prostheses has already been transferred.

Ziborova cites the case of Vladislav Sinilkin, who had an accident in December 2020, as an example.  The boy, who was traveling with his father in a bus on the Moscow-Volgograd route, had pelvic bones crushed and three limbs amputated.
After a month in intensive care, the child was saved by surgeons from the Institute of Neurosurgery and Traumatology in Moscow.
Now he needs serious rehabilitation and prosthetics of three limbs.  The cost of each prosthesis is about 3 million rubles.  They need to be changed annually until the child reaches the age of 18.

The boy's parents failed to get Russian analogues - without them, the child may again end up in a wheelchair.  Delivery of foreign prostheses has become practically impossible.

According to the representative of the fund, now they even have to refuse to accept new wards.  Logistic chains built over many years, ties with philanthropists and patrons, support from foreign clinics were actually crossed out by the sanctions.

31.03.2022