Let's support an inclusive workshop for people with severe disabilities – help pay for the employees' work

Perspektivi

Fundación • St. Petersburg

«Our ceramics» – this is how the residents of the House of supported living in the village of Razdolye warmly call the workshop. For six years now, they have been coming here every day to create ceramic products – unique in shape and painting, capable of decorating any interior. In the workshop, everyone found something to do to their liking and strength, regardless of physical or mental abilities: someone sculpts, someone paints, someone helps prepare clay, and someone rolls out layers. With the opening of the workshop in 2019, the wards' lives changed. They now have the opportunity to work fully, feel needed, grow professionally and – most importantly – be part of society. The works of our masters can be found at markets and fairs, where they invariably attract attention. People are surprised: could these delicate, elegant things have been made by those whom society is accustomed to consider incapable of anything, needing only help and care? But on the ceramics from Razdolye, something else is invisibly written: this was done by people for people. In order for the workshop to continue its work, we need to provide salaries to its employees. We thank everyone who supports this important and necessary project!