RUSSIA

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RUSSIA

• LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

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Russia / Belarus

• Social mobility
• Freedom of expressionat personal level
• Foreign adoptions
• Foreign humanitarian aid
• Hosting/respite programs
• Active embassy

• Social stagnation
• Fear of retribution
• No foreign adoptions
• Humanitarian aid difficult
• No hosting/respite programs
• Skeleton Embassy Staff

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Current Developments

• Two leaders
• Great uncertainty future unknown
• National debt erased
• Political involvement fruitless
• Widening income gap
• Rising nationalism
• Increased totalitarianism removal of opposition
• NGO constraints

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Awareness / Differences

• Relationships, not programs
• Expectation of success
• Power broker vs servant leader
• Idiots smile
• Tallest blade is cut first
• Perseverance wins

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Russian NGO Constraints

• No foreign board members
• Visa restrictions
• Illegal aliens
• Frequent regulation changes
• Threat of consistent (or arbitrary) application
  of law

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Success Factors

• Cultural awareness other differences
• Knowledge of current developments
• On site affiliate
• Funds transfer mechanism

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Stoneworks International

• Mission
• To share the gospel of Jesus Christ
• To disciple believers
• To aid needy groups of people

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Stoneworks Programs

• Short term teams in camps orphanages
• Workers in transition homes
• Humanitarian Aid (including medical care)
• New Family foster care
• Work in orphanages (teaching ESL)
• Supporting Russian affiliate

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Affiliate Structure

• Formed as Cultural Educational Exchange and
  Charity Organization

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Affiliate Structure

• Formed as Cultural Educational Exchange and
  Charity Organization
• Broad range of Goals and Purposes

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Charter Goals Purposes

• To help strengthen peace, friendship and goodwill
  among nations, through cultural exchange with
  Russian citizens
• To help orphans and children who have no home or
  family
• To help strengthen the authority and role of the
  family in the society
• To help protect motherhood, childhood and
  fatherhood
• To help in areas of education, science, culture,
  art, enlightenment, and the spiritual development
  of a person
• To help in the area of prevention and health
  protection of citizens and also promoting a
  healthy way of life, improving the moral and
  sociological conditions of the citizens

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Charter Goals Purposes (cont.)

• To help the activity in area of physical culture
  and mass sports
• To carry out cultural upbringing among citizens
  and their children, including patriotic
  upbringing
• To establish human values, to develop and form
  the character of a child, to develop imagination
  and creativity of children
• To carry out sporting, health and other charity
  programs among citizens including in social
  hotels and shelters, orphanages, sanatoriums,
  houses of rest, and childrens youth camps
• To help provide social support and protection of
  citizens
• To help drug addicts and alcoholics
• To help to distribute literature of a
  humanitarian nature
• To provide humanitarian aid and programs for
  socially insecure classes of population

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Affiliate Structure

• Formed as Cultural Educational Exchange and
  Charity Organization
• Broad range of Goals and Purposes
• Board of Directors 4 Russian, 4 American

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Affiliate Structure

• Formed as Cultural Educational Exchange and
  Charity Organization
• Broad range of Goals and Purposes
• Board of Directors 4 Russian, 4 American
• Goal to foster eventual independence

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Affiliation Agreement

• Two page document 2 languages
• Identity of the parties
• Purpose of agreement
• Responsibilities of MIR
• Responsibilities of Stoneworks
• Term, termination, legal addresses

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Funds Flow

• Donor
• Stoneworks
• MIR - Wire transfer - Debit card - Courier
• Identify Recipient

• Letter of Request
• (recipient to MIR)
• Approval Disbursement
• - Purchase delivery by MIR- Purchase by MIR,
  delivery to recipient- Advance to recipient
• Receipts and Photos

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Hosting / Respite

• U.S. NGO and MIR Agree on services to be
  performed, number of children
• MIR executes agreement with local Municipal Board
• MIR generates list of children
• MIR rep. and NGO rep. interview/select children

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Hosting / Respite (cont)

• MIR prepares travel documents
• Chaperones/interpreters selected
• MIR arranges travel to/from airport
• NGO is responsible for children in U.S.
• MIR expenses and fees go through Stoneworks

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Contact Information

• Stoneworks International www.stoneworksint.org
  Exec. Dir. Michael Cantrell mcantrell_at_stonework
  sint.org Chairman David Hulley
  dhulley_at_stoneworksint.org 413-586-7733
• MIR (Russian Affiliate) www.mir-russia.com
  Executive Director Maria Oshkina
  m_oshkina_at_mir-russia.com 011-7-812-230-4441
• New Horizons for Children (hosting)
  www.newhorizonsforchildren.org Executive
  Director Le Ann Dakake dakake_at_mindspring.com
  678-574-4677
• Coalition for Children at Risk (CCR) -
  www.comission.org Director Karmen Friesen
  717 431-5977