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September 28, 2009
 Over 120,000 children are estimated to be abandoned or orphaned each year in Russia. Yet even those living with their birth parents do not always receive the parental care that every child deserves–children such as Masha, Yulia, and Lena.* |
April 1, 2009
 In recent years, the Republic of Buryatiya has seen a sharp increase in the number of at-risk families and children without parental support. |
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January 3, 2009
 Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was devastated by poverty and social instability, resulting in a sharp increase in child abandonment. Rising alcohol and drug addiction rates also placed many children at risk of abuse and neglect. In response, Russian social workers founded the National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NFPCC), which has advocated for innovative child welfare models and policy change since 1994. |
June 25, 2008
 This spring, the USAID-supported Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) program, administered by IREX, sent a group of six Russian child-welfare professionals to the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) in New York City to observe US models and share lessons learned in family-based (foster) care for orphans, as well as to forge new working relationships. |
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October 30, 2007
 Raised in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Tanya’s* life was deeply affected by her parents’ alcoholism. Having spent much of her youth in the streets, by the time Tanya was 21, she was diagnosed as HIV positive from intravenous drug use. |
December 1, 2004
 Annually around December 1, IREX mobilizes its broad array of programs and its overseas presence to focus on HIV/AIDS. |
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December 1, 2004
 In observance of World AIDS Day, December 1, the IREX community shares its commitment and its vision—through World AIDS Day special activities as well as new and reinvigorated year-round initiatives—to combating HIV/AIDS. |
