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Project title: "Organizing a Folk Crafts Center for the Social Rehabilitation and Adaptation of the Disabled". 

Organization
Boarding School # 14, special (correctional) municipal educational institution
Profile of organization
Government
Start date:  June 1,  2006
End date: October 31, 2006                                                 
Project summary
Organizing a Folk Crafts Center for the Social Rehabilitation and Adaptation of the Disabled at Boarding School # 14 for training disabled children in traditional folk crafts: basket weaving, fabric weaving, creating folk toys, Karelian painting, and building ship models from wood.
Location or replication
Republic of Karelia, Segezhsky raion, Nadvoitsy settlement
Total budget $ 8,300                         Grantee contribution $0                                    Grant $8,300

Project results

This project, headed by S.Fetulina, organized a Folk Crafts Center at Boarding School # 14. The teachers of this school attended a training course in traditional arts and crafts taught by the craftsmen of Charna settlement in Pryazhinsky raion and are now successfully instructing their pupils in these skills. The Center includes such groups as basket weaving, wood painting, fabric weaving, and creation of folk toys. The boys are especially interested in the ship model group. The creative atmosphere of the Center helps the students learn a trade and is giving them a chance to find their place in adult life. Apart from the children, pensioners from Nadvoitsy settlement also attend these groups.

 The pupils of the correctional school in Nadvoitsy settlement master traditional crafts

Building a boat

The older pupils weave carpet runners