Change a life — start with one meeting

Misha was born with cerebral palsy. Doctors said he would never walk independently. The Rotary Club of Tula bought rehabilitation equipment and funded physiotherapy. This year Misha started first grade — on his own.

Anya grew up in an orphanage. At 14 she joined the "Ladder to the Future" program — Rotarians became her mentors, helped her choose a career and enter college. Now she studies programming and dreams of creating her own app.

Their son Artyom had a rare disease. The hospice, built with the Rotary Club Moscow-East, became a place where the family received not only medical help but psychological support. "We were not alone," says his mother.

His village was in a risk zone. Thanks to the End Polio Now campaign and Dagestan Rotarians, 400 children in the area were vaccinated. The polio that could have taken away Rafael's ability to walk forever never came.

In December 2024, tankers spilled oil near the Kerch Strait. Rotary Club Krasnodar set up a field base in Anapa within 48 hours — field kitchen, protective equipment stations, coordinating hundreds of bird rescue volunteers. Thousands of birds were saved.

Rotary Club Krasnoyarsk donated musical instruments to a children's arts school in a remote district. For 60 children from low-income families, the world of classical music opened up. A year later, their ensemble performed at a city festival.

Nikolai lost his sight in an accident. Rotary Club Kazan helped him receive specialised equipment — a talking player, Braille display and voice-controlled phone. "I read again. I work again," he says.

After major wildfires, Togliatti's forest needed restoration. Rotary Club Togliatti Mercury organised an event: 300 schoolchildren together with Rotarians planted 5,000 pine trees. The children became true forest guardians — they return to check their trees.