St Gregory’s Foundation supports projects in four main locations, St Petersburg, Moscow and Karelia in North West Russia and Tbilisi in Georgia. However, our work often has a wider impact as our partners pass their skills and expertise onto others. By using the power of the internet, we can speed up this process across this vast region.
Where we work
St Petersburg
273 000 families still live in communal flats in St Petersburg. These flats are often overcrowded. 12 187 children in St Petersburg are not in the care of their parents. Foster and adoptive families have a difficult task. Our partner, Sunflower Centre helps support them. 1 804 Children still live in orphanages in St Petersburg.…
Karelia
Karelia is a region to the north of St Petersburg in Russia. It covers 172,400 km2 and has a staggering 60,000 lakes. Background Since 1991 St Gregory’s Foundation has worked in Kondopoga and surrounding villages to create employment, feed the hungry, and provide positive activities for local children. Our partners in this have been the…
Georgia
Georgia is a small country in the Caucasus mountains with a unique, ancient culture and language. It has a population of around 3.75 million with just over a million of those living in the capital, Tbilisi. Background St Gregory’s Foundation has worked with a Tbilisi charity, Mkurnali, since 2008 to help homeless children and teenagers. Mkurnali has to…
Moscow
Background Moscow is a city of twelve and a half million people, the second largest city in Europe. It is also famously one of the richest. So the obvious question is: why St Gregory’s is supporting a project there? We are targeting our support to the most vulnerable of an already excluded group: the…