Step Up Orphan Opportunity Centre

On 27th June we will hold our most-anticipated and loved celebration of the year – graduation  More »

You are invited to a charity concert held by the Sponsors of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, as part of the 14th International Festival “Moscow meets friends”. It will be held at 19.30 on 5th June at St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Moscow  More »

We are looking for volunteers to take part in our summer camp at the Belsky Ustye orphanage for students with special needs  More »

We invite you to a test drive of “The Volunteer’s Way”, which will take place on 20th May at the Hyundai Motorstudio  More »

Welcome to our new column, the bookshelf, where we reveal our teachers’ literary passions. We hope that our teachers will continue to share books with us here as time goes on  More »

Annual spring and summer excursions are fundamental traditions for our Centre. We went to one of these places early one Saturday morning, March 4th – to Borodino  More »

On the eve of our spring excursion, we held a masterclass at the Centre: with the Hands from There workshop, our students painted birdhouses as a treat for themselves and their future landlords  More »

One of the most important principles of our work is to spend as much time as possible together during festivals and celebrations. This includes Shrove Tuesday, a tradition that is dear to our Centre  More »

On the 11th February at the Hyundai Motorstudio, students from the the Step Up Orphan Opportunity Centre met with students from orphanages just outside Moscow – they are participants of the Distance Learning project  More »

On 4th and 5th February, students from the Step Up Centre took part in the “Intern@” workshop- they created IT projects to help solve problems associated with the social adaptation of orphanage graduates. This was organised by the Hothouse of Social Technology  More »