Change of orbits within one country

There are no other people's children. If they are, it means that the country is unhealthy. Let's treat the country together so that it does not become our mass grave

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In childhood, one of my favorite films was the “Republic of Skid” by Gennady Poloki. I liked these yesterday's street children in rags so much, their jokes over tender teachers, their young battle fraternity and at the end-their appeal to the pioneering faith and a minted step under the banner and in pioneering ties ...

That was the romance of freedom, slightly corrected by wise teachers. The swans of the revolution grew out of the shabby little thiefs, and it was not clear to me why adults in the kitchens called the revolution of disaster - because she gave such a wonderful childhood to my secret unfamiliar friends from the film. I imagined how they grew up, left school to work by teachers, pilots, doctors, scientists, acquired families, went to the front of the Great Patriotic War, returned in orders and now lived somewhere near me.

A student is waiting for a teacher in the kitchen photo: Vladimir Averin for TD Oleg goes outside in the evening after classes photo: Vladimir Averin for TD

Then I forgot about this film and saw it after many years. It became ashamed of it right there - after all, it is clear that none of them, most likely, even lived to the Great Patriotic War, returning from school in the gateway, joining the gangs, dying in drunken fights, disappearing on Solovki, disappearing in a common grave, cut down in an eternal permafrost. Children's envy of the cheerful Shkidian fraternity instantly gave way to hatred of a catastropheh launched by the Bolsheviks, which broke millions of lives.

Crushed children's hearts do not go anywhere - they turn into crippled adult hearts

Those times have passed. And orphanages, boarding schools - remained. Orphans - remained.

Crushed children's hearts do not go anywhere - they turn into crippled adult hearts. Because every orphanage sooner or later becomes an adult and says goodbye to the boarding school forever. And there, behind the fence of the boarding school, a completely different life in which no one will take you anywhere, no one will tell you and will not show how to live on and “make life with whom”. It turns out that your boarding school, from which you dreamed of taxiing into adult life, gave you a lot of things, but did not give the habit of living in society. Leaving the boarding school, you are trying to refute the Leninsky “to live in society and be free from society”, and not of your own free will. For you, society is like a trampoline: you jump on it, but it repels you. And where you can fly away - God the news.

Oleg on Algebra Photo: Vladimir Averin for TD Oleg photo: Vladimir Averin for TD

Fourteen years have existed the Big Change Foundation. On his account is more than 500 young people to whom the fund helped socialize, get an education, stop bouncing from society, like a trampoline. I talk to one of the employees of the fund - Nikolai Filonov. He is the curator of one of the wards of the “big change” - Oleg. Nikolai says that Oleg studied at a correctional school, lived in a boarding school, then entered the school and received the profession of a cook. While studying for a cook, on the advice of employees from the orphanage, he began to go to a “big change”, studied there according to the general education program. But Oleg does not want to be a cook, but wants to become a historian. To do this, he needs to enter the university. Nikolai says that Oleg has always read a lot, and serious literature, including foreign. And of course, on this part was a cut above his friends in the boarding school. But the trouble is that he read unsystematic, completely independently, and he also began to engage in history himself. None of the adults near him, an orphanage boy, could help. And Oleg came to the “big change”, sacredly believing that the devil himself was not a brother.

He had such ideas about historical events that the teachers of the “big change” grabbed their heads. To overcome Oleg's sense of “uniqueness” for a “big change” and employees of the orphanage who supported his desire to study, almost the number one task. Coped. Now Oleg receives a fund scholarship and is preparing to enter the institute in three years.

For an orphan, society is like a trampoline: you jump on it, but it repels you. And where can you fly away - God news

But in order to teach these guys, pay them a scholarship, the fund needs money. Donations.

Someone will ask: what do I care about boarding children? Like, I also understand: oncological children in hospices or abandoned poor old people in the almshouses-containers. And these - young, for the most part healthy, they were given an education - well, now let them adapt to life next to us. It is difficult for everyone.

At the end of the corridor - computer class photo: Vladimir Averin for TD A chemistry teacher sent Oleg the results of intermediate certification. He stops, asks to wait: Olya, Olga’s classmates, four, and not the three, as she was told earlier, he wants to tell her quickly, says that it is important for her. Photo: Vladimir Averin for TD

Everything is so. It is difficult for everyone. But these guys, yesterday’s orphanages, are many more difficult.

At the very beginning of life, they were thrown out of life, where far from all teachers are good and intellectuals, where you will not complain to mom and dad on a nasty teacher, where no one will protect you from older guys who decided to hone their hazing skills on you. This is another life that we do not know.

She spins in some other orbit, which for the time being does not intersect with ours. And, as usual, it seems to a person that his measured life will never meet with an alien and incomprehensible world. That his sons are married on friends from the “our circle”, and their daughters will marry an extremely positive young man - a white collar. That a guy will not come to work at our office - yesterday’s orphanage, who does not develop with society, and we will never have to moan from his social autism. And that, finally, we ourselves will never suddenly die young, and our children will never be in the very unfamiliar, alien orbit, in which the life of Oleg and many of his comrades was spinning for a long time, until they got into the “Big Change” fund.

There are no other people's orbits. And there are no other people's children. If they are, it means that the country is unhealthy. So let's treat the country together so that it does not become our mass grave.

Satter a little right now or subscribe to a monthly donation: let Oleg and other children from boarding schools receive education. Let our common life in this city, in this country every month becomes a little better.

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