Over the past two years, the number of volunteers in Russia has more than doubled, reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta, citing research by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). According to the study, today in Russia 7% of the population, or seven million people, are engaged in volunteer activities, compared to three million in 2013. 15% of respondents are active in volunteer activities from time to time, another 8% participate in educational associations and interest clubs.

Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation on Social Policy, said the other day that 22 million poor people were living in the country. On the eve of the New Year, together with the volunteers of the Rus Food Fund, we went to the Smolensk region to feed those who have no money to cover even the easiest holiday table Walk along the blurry country road.

In Novosibirsk, five construction workers who did not receive their salaries staged a pogrom in a new building, reports NGS. Workers were finishing the seven-story health complex under construction. The deadline for commissioning the facility was delayed; the complex was supposed to open before the end of the year. In mid-December, workers learned from their acquaintances that they would not receive wages until the New Year.

The number of Russians living below the poverty line has almost doubled over the year, according to a study by VTsIOM. The center cites data according to which, until 2014, the purchasing power of the population grew, and the share of poor families (those who do not have enough for food and those who have enough for food, but not for clothing) dropped to 22%.

Workers of the Birobidzhan psychoneurological boarding school exploited the labor of patients in their summer cottages, reports EAO-Media. Employees of the Birobidzhan Psychoneurological Boarding School forced patients to work in their garden plots. The wards performed the simplest and most difficult work: transporting gravel and spreading sand. They were paid their “salaries” in cookies and cigarettes.

Participants in the show “The Voice” recorded a video greeting for people with amyotrophic lateral syndrome (ALS). The New Year's greeting was organized by the “Live Now” fund for helping people with ALS. Alena Toymintseva, Alina Rostotskaya, Eteri Beriashvili, Olga Oleinikova, Alisa Ignatieva and Ivan Dalmatov took part in the recording. “This song was written ten years ago by musician Fadey Rabinovich, but now it has received its rebirth.

In the Sverdlovsk region, doctors saved the life of an eight-year-old child, whose mother regularly gave drugs based on rat poison, Interfax reports . As the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported , a resident of the city of Asbest independently, without a doctor’s prescription, gave her child drugs based on warfarin, which is also used as rat poison.

Svetlana Sorokina about what else needs to be in time before the New Year We help the remote education of orphans collect 1 901 257 R required 1,808 962 r The collection of funds is over A few days ago, I met a volunteer who was a mentor for an orphans from a boarding school for the past two years. He talked, helped, invited him to his family as an older brother. And with his ward, Artem, also met.