House in the wild

Ceramic workshops for people with severe disabilities opened in the Leningrad region. Photos

In the village of Razdolier, the Priozersky district of the Leningrad region, where two years ago, on the initiative of the Public Organization, Prospects on donations and without a single state penny built a house for young people with severe disabilities, ceramic workshops opened.

The workshops are not far from the house - you just need to cross the road and go towards the Church - the temple of the Holy Royal Martyrs. The abbot of Father Boris has big plans: a whole town of crafts will appear around the temple - in addition to the house of ceramic workshops, he dreams of launching a carpentry and weaving workshops. And it is necessary not only for the inhabitants of the house in the expanse, but also to all the surrounding residents. Maria Ostrovskaya, the President of the Perspective, says: “We already have a waiting list of classes in the workshop - we can’t take everyone, so we need a city of crafts, where people with disabilities from other villages can come - they are sitting home, they are practically no on the streets.”

In the workshop, two ceramic teachers are Natalya Timchenko and Leonid Baranov, along with the wards they are already making beautiful circles. Maria Ostrovskaya believes that it is necessary to work “on order” - so that companies order their products for cafes, gifts, offices. There is such an experience in St. Petersburg - the experience of the workshops “simple things” on Vasilievsky is successful. Handing work, piece production has already learned to value, as well as the fact that such simple and stylish things are created in integration - different people.

... Dina, who used to live in a neuropsychiatric boarding school, learns to live independently. She hardly says, but you quickly begin to understand it. Dina cooks perfectly and dreams of her own house.

Julia - Dina's neighbor by expanse - discovered the talent of the video blogger. Sergey sculpts perfectly. In the fall in St. Petersburg, his dream was fulfilled - he met with his idol Arnold Schwarzenegger and gave him souvenirs of "prospects". Volodya Dolmatov in the expanse became a writer - Evgeny Vodolazkin wrote to his book “Expandelast Stories”, highly appreciating Dolmatov’s prose - transparent, light and sincere.

Film director Maxim Yakubson made a film about the house in the Expand - “House in the Devon,” whose premiere was held in Moscow at Artdoxfest and in St. Petersburg, at the Anna Akhmatova Museum. With his light hand, the house is now called - the house in the wild. This is an alternative to neuropsychiatric boarding schools (PNI) - huge buildings behind the fence - out of sight, away from people. At home in the will should be so that everyone has their own house, their own space, their own unique and only life.