Volunteers come to the Foundation in their free time and help us for free. Some of them have been helping us for years. For instance, Misha C., who was in Chechnya, and Alexey P. are our true helpers always ready ‘to reanimate' our old equipment or carry our mail to the post office, etc. We are really short-handed without our volunteers: a significant volume of our work (delivery of our newspapers, letters and parcels, calls to our clients, updating of our databases) is accomplished thanks to their assistance. Some volunteers give us professional assistance: translators translate our documents; psychologists give consultations to parents of dead soldiers. There's no end to our work, because every year thousands of servicemen die in the Army, and their parents apply to the Foundation. That's why we are always in search of volunteers. In 2008, the Foundation continued using an innovation method of finding volunteers - through job sites. We are grateful to those who gave their unselfish assistance in 2008:
Alevtina, Anna, Julia Alennikova, Alexandra Beloded, Anastasia Berezina, Efim Grigoryevich Grossman, Ludmila Golikova, Elena Dolmatova, Elena, Julia Zelenskaya, Ekaterina Karpova, Tatiana Kirillova, Olga Klimova, Nadezhda Kovtun, Natalia Komarova, Elena Grigorievna Kuliyeva, Julia Larina, Lubov Leonova, Elena Lee, Anna Morgunova, Dmitry Morozov, Natalia Ordinartseva, Maria Ponomarenko, Alexandra Park, Alexey Popov, Ksenia Prakhova, Ekaterina Merkurievna Sedova, Mikhail Selivanov, Anna Slepicheva, Sergey Smirnov, Olga Sokolova, Yevgeny Chegis, Anastasia Chembarisova, Lubov Sherbakova, Ludmila Shiryaeva, Julia.
The Foundation thanks the mother of a dead soldier, Galina Pavlovna Galkina, for her invaluable assistance in delivery of the Mother's Right Foundation's newspaper.
The Foundation invites students of Law colleges and other Higher Institutions of Moscow to have a probation period and receive a unique chance to work in the human rights area.
The following students had a probation period in the Foundation in 2008:
Anna Nikolayevna Klimenko, third-year student of the Economics and Law Faculty (jurisprudence) of the Moscow State Linguistics University (February 4-16, 2008).
- Olga Igorevna Platonova, third-year student of the Law Faculty of the Moscow Humanitarian and Economic Institute (February 11-March 1, 2008).
- Inna Nikolayevna Rykova, fifth-year student of the Law Faculty of the Moscow Region Institute of Management and Law (pre-diploma practice, February 18-March 16, 2008).
- Eva Robins, student of the Dickinson State University, USA (April 1-May 12, 2008).
