Test drive “The Volunteer’s Way”
We invite you to a test drive of “The Volunteer’s Way”, which will take place on 20th May at the Hyundai Motorstudio More »
Our bookshelf or Getting to know the Step Up teachers
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 »
Excursion to Borodino
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 »
Birdhouse painting masterclass
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 »
Shrove Tuesday at the “Step Up” centre
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 »
Meeting the participants of the Distance Learning project
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 »
Hackathon “Intern@”
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 »
Debates
On 17th January, following the New Year holiday, students and teachers got together to play “Debates” More »
Winter camp at Belsky Ustye
A New Year fairy-tale: a wondrous atmosphere reigned over the Belsky Ustye orphanage over the winter holidays More »
A pre-New Year culinary activity: Maslom VVerkh
On 26th December both groups found themselves in the kitchen of a non-culinary club, Kings and Cabbage, ready to learn how to cook tasty desserts so that they could treat all of their loved ones over the New Year holiday More »
