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Charitable Foundation for Aid to Orphans and Large Families named after Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, Hero Soviet Union Yuri Alexandrovich Garnaev "Russian Birch".
Commencement of activity: June 15, 2005
Location: Zhukovsky, Moscow region
Aims and objectives of the fund: attracting kind people to help starving large families from the Russian provinces who have lost the opportunity to work and provide for their children.
Foundation website: www.rusbereza.ru

I will answer any questions that interest you.
Helping children: clothes, shoes, toys, food (!!!), medicines, etc.
Philanthropists PERSONALLY send aid to needy families.
From the life of the foundation. Archive 2005-2008

• Visit of the Deputy of the State Duma A.N. Krutova in Zhukovsky
• Celebrating the birthday of Yu.A. Garnaeva at school number 5 in Zhukovsky
• An article from the newspaper "Delovoy Vestnik" about the activities of the fund
• Orphanage "Sonata" urgently needs renovation
• New Year's party at the "Sonata" orphanage
• "New Year tree" in the orphan group
• Help for the needy in the village of Novoye, Ramensky district
• Help for low-income and large families in the village of Klisheva, Ramensky district
• A festive concert in an orphan group dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day
• The magazine "RUSSKIY DOM" published an article about the Fund "Russian Birch"
• The site "MERCY" published an article about the Fund "Russian Birch"
• Nobody needs these orphans ... or one more day of "Russian Birch"
• Chairman of the Russian Birch Foundation OM Garnaeva was awarded the "HONOR AND BENEFIT" medal
• Round table "Public initiatives - for the development of the city"
• Drive to the village of Byvalino. Orphanage "Nikita"
• The site "PRAVOSLAVIE.RU" published an interview with the Chairman of "Russian Birch" O.M. Garnaeva
• Interview of the chairman of the fund to the RTTV program "Russia today"
• Tea drinking in an orphan group
• New Year's gift from the Colgate-Palmolive company
• Christmas in a guest family orphanage
• The project "Gift from the Snow Maiden" has been successfully completed
• Oksana Garnaeva, Chairman of Russian Birch, was encouraged by the People's Enterprise Charitable Foundation for Social Initiatives for her loyalty to the ideals of good
• The Cyril and Methodius portal has published an article about the Russian Birch Foundation
• Russian Bereza received a response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs
• An article in the newspaper "Delovoy Vestnik" about the activities of "Russian Birch"
• The magazine "Rabotnitsa" published an article about the activities of the fund "Russian Birch"
• An article in the magazine "Russian House" No. 8 2007 about Yu.A. Garnaev
• August 6, 2007 To the 40th anniversary of the death of the crew of Yuri Garnaev in France
• An ordinary miracle
• Consecration of the premises of the Russian Birch Foundation
• On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Alexandrovich Garnaev
• Prayer for health E.I.V. Empress Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna
• Interview of Oksana Mikhailovna Garnaeva, Chairman of the Russian Birch Foundation, to the Russian News Service radio station 107 MHz
• A trip to the town of Kurovskoe to the wards of "Russian Birch"
• Byvalinskaya tree
• The magazine "Helicopter" No. 4 2007 published an article dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Alexandrovich Garnaev
• "Love Formula". Channel 1 documentary about "Russian Birch" and other people.
• Gift of the Mother of God
• "God dandelion"
• Happy Feast of St. Alexis!
• The Russian Birch Foundation is 3 years old !!!
• In memory of Sergei Mikhailovich Baranov
• Oksana Mikhailovna Garnaeva's visit to E.I.V. Empress Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna
• Chairman of the Russian Birch Foundation OM Garnaeva was awarded the medal "FOR DILIGENCE AND HELP"
• Oksana Garnaeva, Chairperson of the Foundation, in the program of the Stolitsa TV Channel - “There is an Opinion”
• Chairman of the Russian Birch Foundation OM Garnayeva was awarded the "GOOD BUSINESS" certificate
• Gift from Sergei Igorevich Sikorsky
• Interview of the chairman of the fund "Russian Birch" OM Garnayeva to the correspondent of "People's Radio" Alexandra Obolonkova
• The newspaper "Daily News of the Moscow Region" published an article about "Russian Birch"
• Emergency meeting of the founders of the fund
• About the crisis
• Round table in the State Duma of the Russian Federation
• Lessons of kindness and mercy in the gymnasium № 1562 named after Artyom Borovik
• Meeting with the head of the Ramensky post office
• Meeting with students of Moscow State University Arts Cultures
• Burial Holy Patriarch Of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II in Epiphany(Yelokhovsky) Cathedral
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I have a very deplorable situation. They lived with my wife for 11 years, and in Last year we took the loan together. He achieved a lot in life himself, helped many, but he himself found himself in a deplorable situation. I found my wife with another, I had to leave and leave everything, let's say to my daughter, everything that was, but two credits hang around my neck. How could he pay off part of the debt ... I have a very deplorable situation. They lived with my wife for 11 years, and in the last year they took out a loan together. He achieved a lot in life himself, helped many, but he himself found himself in a deplorable situation. I found my wife with another, I had to leave and leave everything, let's say to my daughter, everything that was, but two credits hang around my neck. Than he could pay off part of the debt he paid off, nothing more, the loop narrows. I ask you, I just beg you HELP HOW YOU CAN pay off 523,000, and the interest is running inexorably, I think the world is not without kind people and will not be thrown in the bidet. I can make all the extracts for the positions and I sincerely ask for your help. Help. I am immensely grateful to you in advance. Maybe in my life I will be able to help you out or help you with something.

Welcome!

There is no greater happiness for a person than to bring joy and love to other people, especially those who need it the most: lonely and sick elderly people, prisoners, orphans and everyone who needs all possible help.

We have a desire to do good, to help others, but in our time there are many scammers who want to live idly, and it is very difficult to find those who really need help.

With the charitable foundation " Russian Birch»The link was recently introduced and I really like their concept.

Trust in the fund arose from the very first minutes. The needy collect full package the necessary documents and these data are checked by the staff of the foundation.

Fund " Russian Birch " multidisciplinary and helps a lot. Despite the fact that the foundation is Orthodox, they help people of any religion.

Some information about the Russian Birch Foundation itself and its activities:

The Russian Birch Charitable Foundation officially began its activities on June 15, 2005.

Every month, more than 1000 low-income families receive constant support from the fund, in which more than 5000 children are brought up, ten orphanages, dozens of churches and monasteries in need of restoration, more than two hundred prisoners, and the number of those under guardianship is increasing every day.

The main objectives of the Fund are to provide material and other types of social assistance to the above social categories of the needy, drawing the attention of the public and the business community to the problems of orphans, low-income citizens and families, providing spiritual, psychological and legal assistance, developing effective forms and methods of working with those in need.

How to help the wards:

Help can be provided both materially and with things, parcels, letters.

You can learn more about all the methods of assistance on the website. I would like to dwell only on the most convenient way - " SMS donation". The message can be sent both from the site and from the phone to the short number indicated on the site.

Better to send a donation to a short number via the phone, then the commission is not charged... When sending from the site, there is a commission, but a small one.

Projects of the Russian Birch Foundation:

For example, a project like:

"Birthday is NOT a sad holiday"

You can choose a poor family, or an orphan and send a small package for the child on his birthday. You can find out the addresses only by writing an e-mail to the fund's employees; contact details are not published on the site.

Another important project:

« Little man in a big city "

The project is aimed at providing assistance to pensioners, disabled and sick people.

Money to pay for nurses, to buy what is needed for those in need, for transportation to hospitals and sanatoriums, for conducting computer literacy courses for pensioners and disabled people, for food for free meals for a charitable meal, for renting the premises of the department for helping pensioners, disabled and sick people.

And also assistance is provided in the form of:

Food, clothing, shoes, wheelchairs, beds for the disabled, crutches, walking sticks, care products for bedridden, hygiene products, diapers and diapers, urological pads and panties, catheters, colostomy bags, bed linen, anti-bedsore mattresses, medicines, syringes , bandages

You can help prisoners... Often, when a person ends up in prison, all friends and relatives refuse him. Containment conditions may not be the best. There is nothing wrong with giving a desperate person hope for the best by sending him a parcel of sweets or warm clothes.

The website publishes letters from prisoners. If you want to help them, then read carefully the rules of assistance, do not indicate your return address in the parcel, but only the address of the fund.

A year passed without good deeds, wasted in vain. Do good, radiate light, bring joy and love to the world.

There is no greater joy than making other people a little happier. The amount of goodness in this world depends on each of us.

Thank you for your attention! ❤️

... We were looking for an opportunity to help one of our regular readers from the Kursk region, the servant of God Nina, who has been friends with our editorial office for more than one year. It so happened that Nina was left alone with four small children, the youngest is only four months old. And she also had last pregnancy her health deteriorated greatly and she needed a major operation. On September 1, the older children, twins, went to school, and Nina has nothing to buy them either school supplies or clothes ... She lives in the most remote Russian outback, in a small village. We turned to secular organizations in Nina's place of residence, to various charitable foundations, and suddenly our search led to the Russian Birch Foundation. We liked the sincere concern of the chairman of the fund Oksana Mikhailovna Garnaeva about their poverty-stricken compatriots, and I really wanted to tell our readers about her and the work of the foundation. And also Saint Alexy, the wonderworker of Moscow and All Russia, brought us closer. It is not the first year that the editorial board has been operating under the Holy Aleksievsky Brotherhood. And Oksana Garnaeva obeys obedience near the relics of this saint ... We contacted Oksana Mikhailovna, and she agreed to answer the questions of the editorial board.

- At the beginning of the interview, - said Oksana Mikhailovna, - I would like to greet all the readers Orthodox newspaper"Blagovest" and wish them good health, faith, love and hope! God bless you all, dear ones!
- In what year and under what circumstances did you get the idea to create a charitable foundation to support low-income Russian families?
- Charitable Foundation named after Yu.A. Garnaev "Russian Birch" was established in June 2005. There were many reasons for creating an organization to help orphans and children from low-income large (and single-parent) families: firstly, I am a mother of many children and know firsthand about the difficulties of families with many children; secondly, I am an Orthodox Christian, and the Lord Himself has blessed us to help our neighbors; thirdly, the memory of my wonderful grandfather - the honored test pilot of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union - simply obliged me to unite people for a good cause. About a year before the registration of the fund, I created the Orthodox Committee "Mother of Many Children" in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, in order to finally determine the direction of the future fund's activities. By the time Russkaya Birch was registered, it became clear that the needy families from the Russian hinterland needed help most of all, since there are not many charitable organizations in Russia that support families, and the tragic circumstances of life deprived many families of decent livelihoods. And, of course, orphans, whom, in my opinion, simply cannot be helped, have become wards of the foundation. Long before the foundation of the Russian Birch Foundation was born, I had personal wards - orphans, for whom the boarding school became their home for the rest of their lives. To live from birth without maternal love and care is terrible. Therefore, I believe that children who are deprived of parental warmth cannot be ignored.
- What, in your opinion, is the main problem of these families - maybe in an elementary unwillingness to work or in the absence of life initiative? Or is it the state's inattention to the Russian outback?
- The problems of the ward families of the fund are that parents cannot simply feed their children, get them to school, cure diseases, improve their living conditions, etc. - they simply do not have money due to widespread unemployment. I do not exclude (especially since we ourselves have come across this) that there are people who are simply too lazy to work and find it easier to “feed” at the expense of children, but this does not apply to the families of the foundation, which have families from such regions registered where there is simply no work - collective farms are collapsed, enterprises are closed. The only means of subsistence for many families is that over the summer it will be grown in their own gardens, collected in the forest, and children's allowances, which are constantly delayed due to the crisis. Now there is still hope for the "Maternity Capital". According to reports from the hinterland, some mothers would like to take out loans to improve their living conditions, but banks do not give loans because of the scanty income of mothers. It turns out as in the saying: the elbow is close, but you will not bite. But, as they say, hope dies last.
Before accepting a family under its care, the foundation collects a whole package of documents for it, confirming it social status... The foundation does not help drunkards and drug addicts. From the documents and social characteristics it becomes clear why the family is in dire straits.
- Tell me, how much is required to collect information to register in your fund "Russian Birch", are not many good deeds drowning in paperwork?
- Those in need who really need help are quite capable of collecting everything Required documents... But thanks to this list of documents, we manage to weed out deceivers, swindlers and swindlers (from whom letters also flow like a river). We are responsible to philanthropists for the accuracy of information about each family under the care of the foundation.
- Is there any other way, apart from the purely material, to help these people? Is it possible to radically change the circumstances so that there is no poverty in Russia?
- There cannot be no poor people at all. Based on the life stories of many saints, reading the Gospel, we understand that we need to bear the burdens of each other in order to fulfill the Law of Christ. The Lord sends wealth to someone, such as the holy righteous Philaret the Merciful, so that wealthy people save their souls by good deeds; and someone is poor, and if a person carries his cross without murmuring and asks for help from God, then he himself is saved, and saves people whom the Lord sends to help him. Therefore, I think that the question is not quite right. The poor and the rich will always be, until the end of the world, but moral poverty in all our people, of course, needs to be cured. Not so long ago - some one hundred years ago - Russia was a flourishing and strong Power. If now the villages of Russia were in such a state as then, then the crisis could not be feared and such blatant unemployment would not exist. And in order to return Russia to the same prosperity and greatness, we ourselves need to get out of moral poverty, return to Orthodox faith... Of course, due to the fact that in the godless time the faith in the Russian people was etched away for almost a century, one cannot hope that the return will be instantaneous - no. But every person who holds his Fatherland dear and who wishes his Fatherland life and prosperity will bit by bit collect our faith, torn apart during the persecution, and carry it to his descendants.
- How many families that applied to your charitable foundation did you manage to help and in what way was the help expressed?
- The exact figure It is impossible to name the families whom the fund's benefactors have provided assistance to. Today there are about 600 ward families registered in the fund. Constantly new charges are added, and someone, on the contrary, leaves. The support was from the most elementary - parcels with food and clothing - to buying cows ... All my charges are very close to me, and I cannot focus on someone specifically, because every family is a separate life, a whole story, different fates... I especially thank God for the fact that with the help of the fund's benefactors, some mothers have literally been saved from suicide; many were baptized, came to the Orthodox faith - after all, in addition to material assistance, spiritual and psychological work... The problems of families in which people turned to God began to be miraculously resolved.
Now we are trying to involve philanthropists in the creation of a House of Mercy and Aid for orphans and children from large families... This is a very important undertaking by the foundation, a new direction. Our children in charge will be able to come to the House of Mercy to go to Moscow medical examination, go on an excursion and just relax.
- In Samara, on the banks of the Volga River, there is a beautiful chapel in honor of St. Alexy, the wonderworker of Moscow and All Russia. This saint is the Heavenly patron of our city of Samara, as well as the Patron of the Orthodox newspaper Blagovest. Several beautiful legends are associated with the name of the Wonderworker in our city. How did it happen that Saint Alexy is the Heavenly Patron of the Russian Birch Foundation? How did it happen - at first, Oksana Mikhailovna, you began to carry out obedience near the relics of the saint, and then a foundation was gradually organized, or after the foundation of the foundation did you already come to work in the church?
- Saint Alexis is probably the closest saint to me. From early childhood to Epiphany Cathedral My grandmother Shura took me to services (there were no churches in Zhukovsky at that time); after her death, my mother (mother Galina), the daughter of my grandmother Shura, became the chorister of the right choir of the Epiphany Cathedral by the Providence of God and with the mother's blessing. (Mom very well described her path to God in the wonderful book of memoirs about her father Yuri Alexandrovich Garnaev "You promised to return ...") A few years later she became a novice at the relics of St. Alexis. Under the saint, my mother has been serving for almost 25 years, I actually grew up in the cathedral (as our cathedral schema-nun Alexia said about me, “she was born here”), so when my mother's partner, mother Lyubov, died, I took her place.
Saint Alexy helped me to create the Russian Birch Foundation. He, as in the days of his earthly life, remains a “collector of the Russian Land”. How many unchurched benefactors of the foundation came to our cathedral in four and a half years, and left the cathedral spiritually transformed, is beyond count. Thus, 600 years after his death, Saint Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, the miracle worker, continues to unite the Russian people for good deeds and the salvation of the Fatherland. It is a great honor and mercy from God for me to serve such a saint!
- Every day you are near the relics of St. Alexis, does this give you strength in life and in your charitable work? What miracles have you witnessed at the relics of St. Alexis?
“I don’t work at the relics of the saint every day, since I still have a fund. But the days that I spend next to the saint are extraordinary. Through the prayers of St. Alexis, many different healings from mental and physical ailments occur to people. Russian people have a very subtle spiritual culture, we believe in miracles, we ask for help, and - if God pleases, if it will benefit the one who asks for it - the miracle happens. People from all over the world come to the saint to venerate his holy relics. There are a lot of people who suffer from eye diseases. They bring sick children, even with eye oncology. This is so scary. But the parents pray, they themselves lead a spiritual way of life, they smear the eyes of the children with the holy oil from the saint's lamp, and the children are healed.
Various sick people come. The main thing is not to forget after a miracle who created it and why. And I live in a world of constant miracles that happen through the prayers of Saint Alexis with those who come to him. I always pray to the Holy Hierarch for all our benefactors and wards, I ask that they all come to God and be saved. Saint Alexis is very kind. When the old "Moskvich", on which we carried the parcels, collapsed at the fund, I very much asked the Saint to send us a benefactor who would help us with the car, because it is very difficult to carry 15-kilogram parcels. And right on the eve of the feast of the Saints of Moscow, including St. Alexy, a completely unknown person came and presented us with "Potapycha" - a new UAZ "Patriot". In general, you can write a lot about the miracles that happened before my eyes through the prayers of the saint. You just need to believe. And never despair.
- Tell us how its spiritual father, Archpriest Nikolai Stepanyuk, participates in the work of the Russian Birch Foundation?
- I love our dear Father Nikolai very much. He already old man, but he is entrusted with a huge responsibility - after all, the priest is the priest of the Epiphany Cathedral. Father Nikolai has been serving in the cathedral for many years. Understanding the importance of his ministry, I do not torment him with any obligations towards the foundation, but nevertheless I am very sensitive to all of his advice. More than four years ago, Father Nikolai blessed me on this path, warning me that it would be very difficult and that if I took up this, then I should not quit - after all, for many suffering people, “Russian Birch” remains last hope... I meet with the priest every Sunday. When we start some new projects, I take his blessing. By his kindness, Father never “blesses”, he can only cautiously warn me if I'm going to step in the wrong direction. I try to listen to every advice of my dear father and, in order to somehow show my love and gratitude to him, I take him home after the Sunday evening akathist to St. Alexis. He always gets out of the car with great difficulty - his legs are very sore, - slowly goes to his gate, I look after him and pray: Lord, save and save our dear father!
- For its charitable activities, the foundation has been awarded more than once. You have been awarded the Grand Duchess Maria of Vladimirovna with the Medal of the Russian Imperial House "For diligence and help." What does this kind attitude of the Empress to you personally and recognition of the importance and success of your work mean for you?
- I was amazed when the Empress herself appreciated the activities of the "Russian Birch". When I met the Grand Duchess Empress Maria Vladimirovna in the Vysoko-Petrovsky monastery, I was honored to be introduced to Her personally. I was afraid not so much to approach, even to look at a relative of the Holy Tsar Passion-bearer Nikolai Alexandrovich, whom I greatly respect. But by the Providence of God, they suddenly called me to the Empress, introduced me, even the words flew out of my head from confusion. And the Empress took my hand and said: "Thank you for what you are doing for Russia and for the Russian people!" For me personally as a leader charitable organization the words Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna means a lot. Although I do nothing for the sake of fame and honor. Mercy is inherent in the Russian people, there are legends about the kindness and breadth of the Russian soul, therefore it is simply ugly to ascribe virtue to oneself as some kind of feat. It's okay to take care of your fellow man. Every person should do this. And if the Empress does not see your good deeds here, then both the Lord and our holy Tsar Nicholas II already see them there.
- Oksana Mikhailovna, you are a mother of many children, so you are well aware of the problems of family and modern children. Share your secret family happiness and well-being. Do you involve your four children in the work of the foundation?
- The problem of modern children is that we, parents, do not pay due attention to them. Due to the constant race for money and material well-being, we forget about their pure children's souls. Children grow up on their own and gain "modernity." Therefore, the most important thing is to be not just a mother to children, but also a friend, to try with God's help protect them from soul-damaging influences. Of course, I would very much like my children to take an active part in the life of the foundation, but due to their age they still do not understand the pain and tragedy of our wards. Therefore, they do what they can: they organized a group called "Podberezoviki" and write letters to children from the families of the foundation. Proposing your friendship is also a very necessary thing. My children treat the orphans who come to visit us very well. A start has already been made in their little baby souls. I will pray that all the good that they are gaining now will multiply in them, and the bad will be eliminated. And the diaries of the Holy Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova will best of all tell about the secrets of family happiness - here she is an example of a wife and mother. I still have a lot to learn. As the saying goes: on earth we are just learning to live ...

Our help. Hero of the Soviet Union, honored test pilot Yuri Alexandrovich Garnaev (1917-1967) was called the knight of aviation. He went through many hardships, was repressed, but returned to aviation. He performed the country's first bailout in a spacesuit, conducted test flights of many aircraft and helicopters, and was the first to take off the Yak-36 vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. In the summer of 1967, at the request of the French government, the crew of the MI-6 helicopter took part in extinguishing a gigantic forest fire in the Maritime Alps. August 6, 1967 in difficult conditions the mountainous terrain near Marseilles, the helicopter crashed. Garnaev gripped the controls in his hands and continued to work with them until the very last second, when a helicopter fell on a forest blazing in the gorge near the town of La Rove in the south of France ... The crew died. Yu.A. Garnaev was buried in Moscow, at the Novodevichy cemetery. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, Patriotic War 1st degree, the Red Banner of Labor, medals. Streets in Balashov, Zhukovsky, Ulan-Ude, Feodosia are named after him. In the city of Le Rov (France), a monument to the hero-pilot was erected.

The address of the charitable foundation "Russian Birch" for letters and translations: 140188 Moscow region, Zhukovsky, st. Latskova, 6, apt. 154, Garnaeva Oksana Mikhailovna.
Tel .: 8-903-535-20-96
Fund contacts: http://www.rusbereza.ru/fund/cont.html
In the pictures: Oksana Garnaeva sends parcels with the help of low-income families in different regions country; every day to a charitable foundation"Russian Birch" a lot of letters come; a cancer with the relics of St. Alexis, the Wonderworker of Moscow and All Russia in the Yelokhovsky Cathedral in Moscow; Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Alexandrovich Garnaev. Prepared by Olga Kruglova 09/03/2009