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School of Pilgrim
From the campaign to the Far North, “Minors” are returned to others. You can't be lusting in the north
We help the center of sotsadaptation sv. Vasily the Great collected 3 962 777 R required 3 956 089 rThe collection of funds is over
A commission for minors, and many are sent to the Center for Social Adaptation of Vasily the Great Mittias, and many. And for ten years now, employees of the center have been hiring the guys. The last six years - north.
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They are "minor criminals." Another shortcuts - a criminal, gopnik, garbage, nothing good will grow up, a ruined life. And yet - “they themselves are to blame”, “no one forced”, “Yes, the normal children have no whole, and you are reigning with them.” And so, drown them like kittens? They do not drown here. Here they help to swim.
- This is salt and kelp from Solovki, for vigor. This is good in the morning. And this is cocoa on cream, for the evening.
Juliana holds to me smelling of something sea and somewhat candy bags. On the label is a green sprout.
- These are the girls invented. Itildin. On the elven - "The Light of the Moon."
We are on the third floor of the Center for Social Adaptation of Vasily the Great. The moon does not shine. Ten in the evening. The most working time. On racks in a small room, soap welded by the guys. There is also ceramics and cosmetics. Creative workshops.
A trip to the north of the pupils of the center. KHIBIN photo: Evgeny KryninTwo men came, guests:
“I could take someone with me from the guys, an apprentice.”
- And I could take to the service. I was the same in my youth as they, there is something to talk about. Do they have time?
Juliana thoughtfully lists:
- Not on Sunday in the morning - before lunch we have a stable, and someone who wants to, with me, was in service by six in the morning. Not after lunch - then a movie, with a discussion. Not on weekdays in the afternoon, they study. In the evening after dinner, maybe? Or on Saturday. Yes, on Saturday - you can.
These did not deserve !!! Well, of course, they didn’t deserve it. Let's drown them like kittens?Juliana says:
- In general, few help us. It is only worth starting the conversation, as right there: “What, this?! These did not deserve !!! " Well, of course, did not deserve it?
They do not drown here. Here they help to swim.
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No one comes to the Center for Social Adaptation of Vasily the Great. Everyone here is directed here. Passive voice. The commission on minors is directed, and many - the court. Serve his sentence. Correct.
Gloomy guys come, confident: they are all over. The confused parents come with them.
And in a year - the rehabilitation course lasts so much - they come out others. Both children and parents.
We are talking in the office, the doors do not close. Employees are looking. Children look. Someone's confused mother looks in:
- I ask, can I? Did he write a statement?
Juliana pauses. Changes tone.
A trip to the north of the pupils of the center. Solovki photo: Evgeny Krynin- Statement ... Listen. You have an alien growing. If you have happened to you - he will not even know that how much it costs, what comes from. I ask you. Make a list. How much do you spend per month. Clothing, school. Food. Gadgets. Connection. Write down everything, hear? This is not for me. This is for him. You will definitely write.
Mom nods. He looks a little to the side, twists a bag in his hands.
- And he remains, no? Did he write a statement? What did he say?
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Stories. Simple, similar to each other. Like under a carbon copy.
“Here's a dark. There were drugs, breathed gasoline, a program for self -destruction. Mom and dad brought. They themselves understood: if it doesn’t get here, he will just kill himself. They cannot stop him. What is the reason? What didn’t go so? Yes, I can't even say. I don't understand. Talking, working, with a psychologist digging, opening - we still see only the top of the iceberg. And what is there, why? Do not recognize. It happens that both mothers are decent and dads are decent, and the child seems to throw everything into the fire. And he will jump himself, if not to teach another. ”
“Today, Arseny has released here. His course ended. And then he came to us, having spent nine months in the pre -trial detention center, soaked in this romance ... The criminal leader is like that. He decided that he would be a “foreman” and would hold everyone. He was seventeen ... impenetrable. Everything distributed the status, he pulled someone to himself, he lowered someone. It was so hard to come off him, it was so difficult, as if the snake was changing the skin. It was difficult for him, and we had to tear it all off, but it hurt. And we pulled it off.
A trip to the north of the pupils of the center. KHIBIN photo: Evgeny Krynin The year has passed. Eighteen is fulfilled here. Senya went home today. Further to the courses of drivers-carriers will go, he decided himself. Calm, responsible. His mother is crying - he says, I remember so well this whole nightmare, this horror. And he is no longer, horror. Do not notice at what point it stopped.
We left Senkin a craft for ourselves, a mug from a pottery workshop - this is the first thing he did when he only came to us. A circle with thieves abbreviations. We then immediately called the police inspectors, who explained to him that the propaganda of the prison subculture was also punishable. Even to such trifles, we react, yes, of course. Certainly! The reaction should be immediately. ”
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On campaigns here have been going on for the tenth year. In the northern places - the sixth. Why there? First we went to the Crimea. But the south relaxes. He pulls into the usual, in temptations, in light outbreaks of anger.
We decided that we had to change the course. They turned.
Cape German, a fishing peninsula. The end of the earth, Varanger Fjord ...
North is quiet. White. Not for pleasure they go, do not relax. They go for changes. Not in the landscape - in itself, of course. But the landscape is the developer and tuning for this. Severe north pulls into a string. Requires strength.
- Before going on the road, we are all talking. The mood is as follows - you went through a rehabilitation course if you have passed the "Wandering School". This is the final chord of your work, the hard work that you did on yourself. Ourselves, not us - we created the conditions for you to ensure that you yourself realize your life and make a choice. And what have you gathered during this time, with what you came to the finale - you yourself will look now. This is an exam, yes. Transition.
A trip to the north of the pupils of the center. KHIBIN photo: Evgeny KryninThere, in the north, they grow up very quickly.
They go through the parishes, in monasteries, to the priests of friends ... to where they will not twist their mouths: "Oh, the criminals showed up."
- People living in the Far North, others. Everything is very simple there is very real. We are accepted as it is, entirely, and children feel this concern, and this attitude towards themselves - without disgust. With understanding and with love, very tolerant. And this is transmitted to the children, ”Juliana says.
In monasteries, in holy places. Where on the bus, where on foot - on their backs all the belongings, stopping, where they let go, working for the night and food, collecting the monasteries of potatoes, repairing a broken one, building the right one. The starry sky was seen. They walked along the mountain ridge. In monastery cuisine, obedience was performed. The mountain river crossed the rotten boards. And the teacher and the pupil: side by side.
Where do they live? And wherever you have to. Then in tents, in the open air. Then they will be allowed to live in a monastery in the house. And sometimes in a friendly parish they will simply be launched into the yard - there are no houses ...
-The connections that remained somewhere far, far away in the usual world, behind the scenes-here they become very visible. You help - and they help you. And they suddenly begin to feel their great responsibility for what is happening. To run the berries to dial to the morning porridge. Chop firewood. Help in response to care, the first to offer help. Turn on. See the world around you.
A trip to the north of the pupils of the center. Vazheozersky Monastery Photo: Evgeny Krynin- The boy alone with us this summer went on a campaign for a pupil, and in the hibans he became a volunteer. I moved to another status. As it was - the teacher fell ill in our mountains right in the mountains. And Max for the second time on the campaign, his court awarded us for a year, and came from traveling to travel.
Maxim then led the teacher back to the camp. The route knows, you can trust. He led as an adult, supported, insured.
One summer boy this summer went on a hike, and in the hibans he became a volunteerAfter that, we offered him to go from Max to Maxim Alekseevich. We have all adults by name-patronymic. Thought and agreed. Now he lives at home, and comes to us by a volunteer. Works. It is not easy, of course - and the status is replaced, and the role.
-In the campaign, they probably understand for the first time that being an adult is not so fun that this is responsibility. We have a rule: an adult receives food last. What if not enough, then adults are missing. Adults get up earlier and later lie down. There it all becomes visible.
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And the crown of wanderings is Solovki.
The hardest begins on the twenty -first day. This is a classic of all rehabilitation programs-someone just before the campaign appeared in the center, someone only goes through the weaning from substances ... irritation, fatigue, anger.
- These days, it is not for nothing that we always find ourselves on Solovki. This is the highest point. The end of the earth. The peak of travel - drove by bus, sailed on kayaks, walked, walked ... and finally reached. In addition to military units and a monastery, there is nothing around. Nature looks at you, harsh. And simple harsh people.
The most isolated, most stretching place. And the most spiritual. This is really a citadel. We have friends there, the beloved father of Prokopy, Father Jacob. Nature saves, open spaciousness, and a different being. All superfluous from the soul leaves.
A trip to the north of the pupils of the center. Trifonov-Pechensky Monastery Photo: Evgeny KryninThere you begin to understand what it is to direct this energy, this adrenaline in a peaceful direction. Because they are destroyers, of course. With a self -destruction program inside. And yourself, and your loved ones, and the world around. We are going together, and this is no longer an evil administration and unfortunate children under supervision. Relations are very close. Although we have very strict rules, and we are holding the distance with the children. After all, how: at first it is strange at first. Their? Not your own? It is incomprehensible. It seems kind, but there are never compassionate conversations: "Oh, how could you, oh, why?" Something did the wrong thing-bam, called the police. You look like that used-bam, went to the examination. Hard! Well, everyone thinks: it means that the enemies are around around ... But no, look, not enemies.
This is our professional principle - separate a person from his act. The moment is very important. We react to the act immediately, but we respect a person. You are not what you do, you can choose something else. And you must understand the consequences of your actions. After all, while you do not understand them, you will perform and make them. Then, finally, they happen to them this gap.
Sometimes they say those who are with us for the first time on the campaign, even adults say - why is it so hard, why rush so? The soul is over, the legs are erased, it is impossible, all for such an overcoming! And we all this trip to both children and ourselves create the conditions for the feat. And you need to do this so as not to steal from them. Their personal, their own victory. Feeling: I did it. And that means I can.
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Doors do not close, come in, people come out. They laugh, sit on the sofa, talk in an undertone in the same place, next to us. Adults, young, different.
Another.
Going to the north of pupils of the Center Photo: Evgeny KryninJuliana revives:
- Oh, Maxim. Maxim, but tell me how you a campaign?
Maxim smiles. Thinking on the answer:
- The campaign was difficult. We went to the mountains, we generally walked a lot, it was hard. Hard, yes. And the views are good.
Further pause. Juliana smiles:
- Go, Maxim.
- They have the opportunity to encounter an open world. See the beauty around you, experience the joy of silence. “The views there were good” ... When we say so, but our guys, with their experience of stiffness, with their armor, which means that it remains in the soul. In our last campaign, one boy, seeing a stone heart of five kilograms in the hibans, put it in his backpack and carried it. And he came here. Here it is, lies on the windowsill.
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... ten in the evening. A “candle” with a psychologist has already passed below - they discussed the day, the hang up. In the hall for lectures and film examinations, a children's bicycle is screwed to the ceiling.
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