"Let's be together"

Nadezhda and Nikolai decided to crucify when each of them was left alone with four children. Now there are nine of them, all property is half a house, but the family is not afraid of difficulties

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Hope

The girl Nadia was born in the late 80s in a small village in the Tver region. When Nadia studied in elementary grades, dad died. Mom shut up alone with two children and farming in the village and decided to move to the city - she took away the children to Rzhev. She rented an apartment and worked without ceasing.

After the 9th grade, Nadia and his brother entered college. Brother fell in love with the girl Tanya. Tanya also had an older brother, Sasha. We walked together with a large company. Nadin's brother did not succeed with Tanya. And Nadia and Sasha got married in a year and gave birth to the son of Maxim. Nadia barely hit 16. Three years later, the daughter of Elvira was born. And then Alice. Nadia always wanted a large friendly family, but her husband increasingly disappeared and eventually got into prison.

Roma photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Nadezhda Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Children play in the yard photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

Divorced. Hope with three babies remained in a hostel - in a room purchased for maternity capital. I did not think about a new marriage. She worked in the kindergarten where the children went. Mom helped a little with the kids. Small alimony came from her ex -husband. The boyfriends who did not ignore the pretty lonely girl were wary, looked closely and avoided. But she believed the most persistent. He spoke a lot of correct words, swore ardently in love and disappeared when Nadezhda said that they had a child. He never saw his son Romka.

Nikolai

The girl Tanya, the first love of Nadin's brother, married Nikolai a year later. They also lived in Rzhev, a few streets from hope. In two rooms in the same hostel. And Tanya also gave birth to four children. Three daughters and son. And one evening I came home from work, went to bed, woke up-my heart is pounding, cramps. Nikolai called an ambulance several times and begged them to hurry. Doctors arrived a few hours later. They took Tanya to the hospital. But they didn’t help. The next day she died - at 27. The youngest son, Olezhka, was only two years old, the eldest, Katya - 10.

Denis Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

Nikolai was left alone with four babies - and went to work with his head. With his own hands, he made repairs and did not even want to think how they would live on: well, who needs him with other people's children.

In a small town, everything is in sight. Nadezhda and Nikolai more than once intersected in social protection, then at children's events, the daughters Olya and Alice studied in the same class. When six months later, Nadezhda met Nikolai at the birthday of common acquaintances, she began to ask how they live like children. The laconic Nikolai called to visit. Then he arrived himself. And after a couple of days he called and shook: “Let's get together. Let's be together. ”

“At first I didn’t even want to hear about it. Well, how is it from the bay. And she could not imagine so many children at once. Suddenly they will not want to ... ” - Nadezhda doubted.

And Nikolai just just rented a house and a week later he came for them. And everything somehow happened. “If it were bad, we wouldn’t have Deniska,” Nadezhda smiles.

Oleg photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Roma and Olya Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Roma photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

Deniska, the ninth child of Hope and Nikolai, leaves the greenhouse with an important look, barely holding a healthy cucumber in his hand. Now he is a year and a half - he is the youngest and the most important here. Gnawing the prey sits right in the bed with cabbage heads.

New old house

The division of children into “your” and “mine” was avoided. Hope lifted everyone in the morning, fed breakfast and sent kindergartens to schools and kindergartens, then bustard the household. Nikolai worked as a locksmith at the Arsenal plant. All themselves, they are not used to complaining, but when Deniska appeared, the housing issue got up completely acutely. There was no money to rent someone else's house, such a company is impossible in dormitories. Hope has already spent my maternity capital on the room - you can’t sell it so simple. But Nikolai Matkapal was preserved. All savings were added to him - 100 thousand rubles. There was enough money to buy half the old wooden house in a village near Rzhev.

“The foundation is strong, the roof does not flow, the stove does not bind, and we will gradually do the rest,” Nikolai decided, signing the documents for the purchase of the house.

From left to right: Elvira, Denis, Olya Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

The house is only three large rooms, a bathroom and a kitchen with a hallway. In the courtyard - a greenhouse, a shed, a garden. The heating is stove, the gas is cylinder - for the neighbors from the second half of the house, gas was carried out , but they did not allow to make a discharge from them. And to spend expensive separately, a large family cannot afford it.

The whole big family photo: Anastasia Chistyakova

But when hope, Nikolai and the children moved, it turned out that there are enough other problems. There were not enough beds. Window frames were ready to crumble from one glance. The intricacies of the old wiring threatened with a fire. But they twisted and in the spring began to truly settle down. They planted a garden. Two piglets and chickens were opened. Nikolai began repairs: he was in a hurry to quickly change the wiring and old shields. With his own hands, he can almost everything, besides, older boys help. But, when they calculated all the costs of repairs, gasped - it turned out that only more than 100 thousand rubles are needed for building materials for new wiring and replacing all the collapsing windows, and after buying a house and firewood for the winter, the family has no savings.

In addition, when Deniska was one and a half years old, a guide to care for the baby, which was received by hope, immediately turned from several thousand to 50 rubles.

Miracle

In the end, Nikolai changed his work - he was appreciated as a locksmith of high qualifications, praised, but paid about 15 thousand. He got a loader to the trading network: there they immediately promised 20 and an increase after the trial period. And then a miracle happened, in which hope, accustomed to rely only on himself, still believes with difficulty. In the local department of social protection, she discussed with the inspector the transfer of children to the garden closer to the new house. And at the same time she talked about their life. What has already managed to do, what they plan, that so far it doesn’t work out.

Alice photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Masha (left) and Olya photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Masha photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

A few days later, Nadezhda called from an unfamiliar number, they said briefly and simply: “We were told about you in the guardianship department. We want to help you. ” Elena called, coordinator of the Constant Foundation - and now she in her faces tells how the first time she came to visit the family. “They showed the house that it broke, that it fell apart, what needs to be done. But when asked how to help you, Nadia shrugged and said: “Well, maybe blender?” ”

Hope embarrassedly interrupts: “Well, we thought we would handle it. It is inconvenient to ask. Yes, and I could not believe that some people would just want to help us. ”

The Constant charitable foundation is the only one in the huge Tver region is engaged in systemic support for families with children. So that the children live at home, warm and safety. Often, the life of even a prosperous friendly family is at risk due to ordinary household problems, which the family does not have enough resources to solve. The boiler burst in the cold, the stove broke, or the roof collapsed. Most often, the wards of the fund live in rural areas. There are few work in the areas, the salaries are low. When trouble happens, families simply have nowhere to immediately take money for a new roof or a new stove. And in the budget of social protection for such help there is no money.

Hope with children (left to right): Masha, Roma, Oleg, Denis, Elvira Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

The family of hope and Nikolai “Constant” helped with building materials for repairs, with new bunk beds for children and new plastic windows.

The Constant Foundation annually pulls out hundreds of families with children from communal hell, helps to return children to the family, helps with things and products, consultations of a lawyer, a psychologist and a narcologist. In the departments of social protection, they say: only the "constant" will help you - and give a business card. And we all help Constanta in time to substitute the shoulder of support to such families as Nadezhda and Nikolai. We collect money for the work of the fund coordinators, who every day is a wheel in a huge Tver region and help children feel safe at home. Please support this important matter.