Volunteer center
One of the areas of our organization's activity is volunteering. Volunteers are people who are ready to sacrifice their own time, share their professionalism, knowledge, reputation and connections for the benefit of society, without material compensation for their work.
Almost every undertaking cannot be done without the help of volunteers – sincere, kind, proactive, responsive people. Volunteers of the “wise age” provide support to elderly people within the framework of the “Equal to equal” direction, give communication and valuable support, provide all possible assistance.
Volunteers of different ages participate in creative workshops, volunteer events, provide information by phone, help with the delivery of food packages and the organization of events/lectures. With the support of volunteers, minor repairs of household items are carried out, and assistance is provided in the local area of lonely elderly people.
Volunteers of our center gain new acquaintances and communication, support, as well as the opportunity for self-realization, feel their importance and contribution in the development of our region and Community
- Zparticipation in the center’s events, community and cultural work: assistance in organizing lectures, creative workshops;
- Zproviding consultations on various aspects of a healthy lifestyle;
- Zhousehold assistance to clients – minor repairs of plumbing, furniture, household appliances, umbrellas, irons, etc.;
- Zprovision of free initial legal advice;
- Zassisting project coordinators in providing targeted assistance;
- Zparticipation in the distribution of charitable aid;
- Zproduction of knitted goods, handicrafts, handmade cards;
- Zaccompanying elderly people with limited mobility (running errands, communicating on the phone, congratulating on holidays)
You can also become a volunteer,be useful to society as a whole!
👫This week, the Active Walking project participants met again on the embankment to stroll, socialize, and share their progress! ⏳Everyone walks at their own pace and at a convenient time, and they gather together once a month—after all, walking together gives a boost of energy and the joy of communication. 💬 📱The most active participants received smartwatches—now they can track their step count, heart rate, and activity level. These watches help monitor their health, motivate them to move more, and remind them: movement is life! 👉🏆Become an active participant and receive a watch as part of the grant! 🫶The project is supported by the Charles Hoffman grant. 👉Let's move forward—together, with benefit and in a good mood! 👉 For more information, see https://vox.jct.md/aktivnaya-khodba-prodolzhaetsya-shagi-k-zdorovyu-i-novim-vozmozhnostyam Volunteer Center RVC #RVC
Despite the vagaries of the weather, genuine warmth reigned in the Jewish community of Tiraspol—in the hearts and smiles of the people. 🌤️ Representatives of all generations, from little ones to respected elders, gathered for the holiday of Sukkot. Everyone found something for themselves, but most importantly, everyone was united by traditions and the joy of celebrating together. 💛 🌿 Blessings resounded in the sukkah, the lulav was raised, and the fragrant etrog reminded everyone of the unity of the people of Israel and gratitude to the Creator. 📖 After the formal part, participants learned more about the meaning and symbolism of the holiday, and the festive table delighted with harvest dishes. 💃 The highlight was dancing to live music—joyful, sincere, and uniting! Even the cloudy sky could not dim the inner light emanating from the hearts of those gathered. ❤️ On the eve of the holiday, community volunteers prepared colorful cards, made with warmth and love, and presented them to members of the older generation. 💌 These kind tokens of attention became another reminder of the care and mutual support that unites all community members. Sukkot is not just a holiday, it is a reminder: the strength of our community lies in mutual support, respect, and love. For more information, see 👉https://vox.jct.md/v-tiraspole-vse-pokoleniya-otmetili-sukkot-5786 #Sukkot5786 #rvc
✨ On International Day of the Elderly in Tiraspol, truly heartfelt gatherings 💐 took place at the Day Center with warm words, songs, and poems. And for all participants of the "Caring Connection" project, a large online event was held, bringing together viewers from all over Transnistria 🏡. 💖 Dear friends, please accept our most sincere congratulations! May each of your days be warmed by care, attention, and gratitude. Age is wealth, and your wisdom and warmth make the world a brighter place ❤️. 👉For more information, see https://vox.jct.md/den-pozhilogo-cheloveka-prazdnik-obedinyaet-serdtsa Volunteer Center RVC #RVC
✨ This week, as part of the "Literary Salon" project, a meeting with Transnistrian poets Natalia Samoniy and Anna Shtro was held. 📖 The guests read their poems—lyrics, children's poems, poems about nature, and, of course, about autumn. They also shared the secrets of their creativity: how poems are born in response to the works of other authors, based on a painting, or even as a look at autumn through the eyes of an optimist and a pessimist. 🙌 Our volunteer Arkady Kupershmidt helped create the evening's atmosphere, ensuring a warm and inspiring meeting. 💬 Such evenings are especially important for older people—they offer the joy of communication, new emotions, and a glimpse into the world of poetry. https://vox.jct.md/literaturnaya-gostinaya-vsrecha-s-pridnestrovskimi-poetessami Volunteer Center RVC #RVC
On the eve of the Jewish New Year, victims of Nazism—Hesed clients across Transnistria—receive holiday packages of apples and honey. These symbolic treats remind us of the sweet life and the hope for a good and prosperous year. 🌟🍏🍯 Particular attention is paid to ensuring that everyone feels cared for and cared for. For those who survived the tragic events of the past, this is not only a tradition but also support, a feeling of being remembered and appreciated. 💖🙏🌈 Volunteers are also preparing for the holiday—they create vibrant cards for the older generation with their own hands, bringing them a touch of warmth and joy. 🎨💌🌷 Such care helps strengthen the bond between generations and creates a sense of warmth and community during important holidays. 🍎🍯🌞 Volunteer Center RVC #RVC https://vox.jct.md/sladkoe-nachalo-goda-zabota-pered-rosh-a-shana
🔎 Did you know that the inhabitants of Easter Island used kites for fishing? And that their bodies were covered in tattoos, each of which had a meaning? This week, the participants of the Caring Connection project learned about this and much more at an online meeting with our Volunteer Center RVC volunteer Tatyana. 📖We talked about the first manifestations of religion in the ancient world, megaliths, the mysteries of the Black Hill in Krasnoyarsk and, of course, the secrets of the moai. 🤝 Knowledge, communication and the discovery of new horizons - this is what makes our meetings so valuable! More about the event 👉https://vox.jct.md/virtualnoe-puteshestvie-v-mir-drevnikh-tsivilizatsiy #RVC
This week, a number of interesting and heartfelt events were held for our wards in Rybnitsa. ✡️ 🎨One of them was a painting master class held by artist Anastasia Makovey. Participants learned the technique of drawing national Jewish costumes. Such creative activities not only introduce people to Jewish culture, but also have a positive effect on mental development, helping to prevent dementia. The wards left in a good mood and with beautiful drawings. 🕎 And on Friday, as always according to tradition, a warm Shabbat took place. Volunteer Center RVC volunteer Lilia Braga lit candles, read the blessing on challah and shared stories about upcoming holidays and important events in the world with those present. ⏰This week gave our wards joy, communication and new impressions. https://vox.jct.md/nedelya-v-krugu-obshchini-malenkogo-gorodka
The Active Walking project brings together like-minded people and supporters of a healthy lifestyle. Today, everyone enjoyed the communication, the first autumn chill and the Dniester River Volunteer Center RVC #RVC
🫶At the next master class of the "Crazy Hands" project, our participants, together with a volunteer, were creative and created original interior items. This time, in the hands of the craftswomen, ordinary wooden boxes turned into stylish and useful things for the home. 🎯The volunteer showed in detail the stages of the work: *surface preparation, *careful sanding, *priming, *paint application. 👩🎨👩🎨Each participant enthusiastically tried her hand, and the result pleased everyone - the products turned out to be beautiful and unique. 🫶For older people, such activities are especially valuable. There is everything here: communication, and the opportunity to spend time in company, and the joy of creativity. In addition, the participants acquire new practical skills that can be used in everyday life. 🎯Each master class within the framework of the project "Ochumelie Ruchki" is not only training in crafts, but also warm communication, inspiration and a sense of joy from a joint effort. https://vox.jct.md/ochumelie-ruchki-masterim-vmeste Volunteer Center RVC #RVC
After the meetings in Bender, Tiraspol and Grigoriopol, new participants continue to join us. 👵👴 Everyone gets sticks, training and support, and most importantly, they feel that they are not alone. 📲 In our WhatsApp group, participants share their impressions, receive useful tips and project news. And joint meetings become a time of communication, care and joy. 💬 “It is very important that they remember us and pay attention to us. Nordic walking helps us to be healthy, but what makes us even happier is that we are together,” noted one of the participants. ✨ We are moving forward step by step - towards activity, health and new joyful moments with friends! https://vox.jct.md/proekt-aktivnaya-khodba-eto-ne-tolko-pro-zdorove-no-i-pro-vnimanie Volunteer Center RVC #RVC
👋The other day, a warm and symbolic event "Summer, Lehitraot" took place in our children's club AJT JUNIOR. ☀️The children, together with the invited volunteer Sofia, recalled their brightest moments of the passing summer, shared their impressions and made plans for the fall and the approaching New Year - Rosh Hashanah. 🪢The meeting ended with a creative activity: the children made bracelets as a keepsake for themselves and their friends - as a symbol of friendship, joy and new beginnings. 🤝We thank the Volunteer Center RVC for their help in holding the event and photo support. https://vox.jct.md/leto-lehitraot #JDC #RVC #AJTTIR #jewish
Last Sunday, a creative meeting of middle-aged community members took place in the family club "MISHPAHA". The session took place in a special atmosphere, because we have already entered the month of Elul - a time of self-knowledge, rethinking and preparation for the Days of Awe. The participants tried their hand at painting. Paints, canvases and a good mood helped everyone to reveal their inner world and share it with others. The master class was conducted by a representative of the Volunteer Center RVC, professional artist Tatyana. Painting became a symbolic way to look inside yourself: each work is not just a picture, but a reflection of personal feelings, hopes and intentions. Thus, the creative process was combined with the spiritual: through art, we learned to hear ourselves, open our hearts and prepare for the renewal that Elul brings with it. We believe that such meetings help not only to develop creatively, but also to feel more deeply the spiritual meaning of each Jewish holiday. https://vox.jct.md/vremya-razmishleniy-vremya-tvorchestva #RVC
🙏Thanks to the support and funding of JDC, our Hesed now has a modern fruit dryer, which allows us to implement a social project aimed at caring for the health and well-being of Community members, especially elderly and low-income clients. 🫶Similar activities had already been carried out before, but at the end of the project, the equipment - fruit dryers - had to be returned. And it was at this moment that JDC, as always, extended a helping hand, giving us the opportunity to continue an important and useful work. 🎯The mechanism of work is simple and at the same time very valuable: Community members who have surplus fruits and berries bring them to Hesed. Our volunteers process the harvest with care and love - dry the fruits, and then form vitamin kits. These kits are given to the wards for the Tu B'Shvat holiday, and are also distributed to those in need throughout the year. 🫶This week our volunteers prepared the first batch - dried plums and apples. In total, we managed to process 8 kg of plums and 3 kg of apples, which were provided by families from our Community. This is a vivid example of how, through joint efforts, we can turn the harvest into a source of health and joy for many people. 🫶🎯We will be happy to accept new batches of fruits and berries for drying so that even more wards can receive vitamin sets. Thus, the project unites the efforts of the Community, involves volunteers, uses resources rationally and gives everyone the opportunity to contribute to a common good cause. "Vitamins from the Garden" not only bring joy and health benefits, but also create an atmosphere of care, warmth and mutual assistance. https://vox.jct.md/kogda-urozhay-stanovitsya-pomoshchyu-prodolzhaetsya-proekt-vitamini-s-gryadki Volunteer Center RVC #RVC
📚✨ In August, our community held the “Get Your Child Ready for School” campaign. Thanks to the support of caring community members and the fulfillment of the mitzvah of tzedakah, we helped large families get their children ready for the new school year. 🖍️ Notebooks, pens, paints, albums, and other stationery became part of the gift sets that volunteers lovingly handed over to the children. 💬 “This help is very valuable to our family. The children go to school in a good mood and with the feeling that they are cared for,” said one of the mothers. 💬 “The children’s happy eyes are the best reward for our efforts,” shared a volunteer. Now the schoolchildren of our community are ready for new knowledge and achievements! 🌟 https://vox.jct.md/aktsiya-soberi-rebyonka-v-shkolu-v-nashey-obshchine Volunteer Center RVC #RVC JDC Kishinev
📖Yesterday, as part of the Literary Lounge project, we had a creative meeting with interesting guests. Zakharchuk Alexey and Natalie Samoniy are members of the Writers' Union of Transnistria. As always, our volunteer Valery Kupershmidt introduced the guests warmly and with inspiration. He noted that Natalia has incredibly interesting and unexpected titles of poems - so many of them that an entire meeting could be made up of the titles alone. Among them: "Monsieur Sausage", "Cucumbers have gone", "About a tumbler and a tumbler", "FRIDA - Fish Soul", "Island of Voluptuousness". 📚 Alexey has philosophical and lyrical works full of deep reflections. During the meeting, many poems were read - lyrical content, civic poetry, lines about the war. 🫶Natalia is a teacher, so her work is largely dedicated to children and the world of childhood. She presented poems about family and youth, which our elderly listeners especially liked. 🎶 In addition, Natalia writes lullabies and sincerely recommends that parents sing lullabies to their children or at least read them - after all, such poems fill childhood with warmth and kindness. 💬 The atmosphere of the living room was truly soulful. The participants received great pleasure from the poets' creativity, and at the end of the meeting, words of gratitude and warm impressions were heard. https://vox.jct.md/poeziya-kotoraya-obedinyaet-pokoleniya Volunteer Center RVC #RVC
🌊 Today, the participants of the "Everyone to the Museum" project took a fascinating online journey into the world of art without leaving their homes! At the meeting, they got to know Aivazovsky better - an artist whose paintings of seascapes are familiar to everyone, but whose deep religious motives many discovered for the first time. 👀 For the first time, many heard the images of his famous paintings: "The Crossing of the Jews through the Red Sea", "The Creation of the World", "The 9th Wave", "The Wave", "The Black Sea", "The Betrayal of Judas". Each work told its own unique story and showed that there is always a deep meaning behind the beauty of the sea. The Volunteer Center RVC "Everyone to the Museum" project continues to open new horizons for representatives of the golden age of our community - after all, art becomes closer if you look at it together! 🎨✨ #RVC #JDC #hesedtiraspol https://vox.jct.md/vse-v-muzey-iskusstvo-kotoroe-vdokhnovlyaet
✨ Each thing has its own story. Sometimes it becomes unnecessary in one house, but can give warmth and joy to another. Some people bring clothes that they no longer need, while others gratefully find something that will come in handy right now. This is not just an exchange - this is a second life for things and great support for those who find themselves in difficult economic conditions. Many people are having a hard time in Transnistria today, especially the older generation. And such simple gestures of mutual assistance become a real salvation. 💙 When our wards choose clothes for themselves, this is not only material assistance - it is also a feeling of care, human warmth and participation. We believe that good comes back. And each donated thing becomes part of this chain of kindness. #JDC #HesedTiraspol #RVC
🌍 RVC Volunteer Seminar in Vadul lui Voda Three productive and inspiring days brought together volunteers from both banks of the Dniester. Our volunteers from Tiraspol, Bender, Rybnitsa also took an active part in this seminar. We learned together, shared experiences and opened new horizons for volunteer activities. 📌 The program includes: • sessions from psychologists and coordinators, • creative master classes, • work on new ideas and projects, • exchange of experience between different generations. The seminar became a place for meeting friends, making new acquaintances and vivid impressions. Volunteers will definitely apply all the knowledge and inspiration they received in their volunteer activities. 💙 Thanks to the organizers of the Volunteer Center RVC for the energy and knowledge! 🙌
✨ Poetry that unites hearts! ✨ 📚This Wednesday, our monthly online meeting with Transnistrian poets took place within the framework of the "Literary Living Room" project, and once again the poetic word gave unforgettable emotions! Our Volunteer Center RVC volunteer Valery Kupershmidt introduced the guests - Marina Sycheva and Tamara Bazilevskaya from the creative association "Literary Spring" (Rybnitsa). 📖The poetesses shared their book "Let's Bow to Those Great Years", where historical facts about the Great Patriotic War are transformed into touching poems. Each line is a tribute to the heroes, and goosebumps ran through all the listeners. 💻 The online format gave a unique opportunity to touch the beautiful without leaving home. The meeting was attended by listeners from all over Transnistria - from Rybnitsa, Tiraspol, Bender, Dubossary and other cities. Poetry erases distances and connects souls, wherever we are. 📖More than an hour of poems about the Motherland, nature, youth, about war heroes flew by unnoticed. At the end of the meeting, words of gratitude were heard: "Thank you for the opportunity to feel this heart to heart!" ❤️ 🙏Such meetings remind us: poetry is a living thread that connects generations and cities, gives strength and inspiration. 👉You can get acquainted with the book "Let's Bow to Those Great Years" at the link https://www.calameo.com/read/0062568065a0bc531c403 #JDC #HesedTiraspol #RVC
Today, everyone at the Day Center was completely immersed in creativity! As part of the Volunteer Center RVC project "Crazy Hands," a decoupage master class was held by our volunteer Tatyana. 📌 Napkins, glue, a little patience - and ordinary kitchen cutting boards turn into real works of art! 👵 "At first it was difficult - my hands don't obey, everything sticks, but then you get so carried away! This is a very useful activity for us, the elderly: for both fingers and head," shared one of the participants. 👐 Such activities not only develop fine motor skills and train attention, but also bring a sea of joy, inspiration and communication. Thank you all for your participation, warmth and smiles! 💛 #JDC #RVC #HesedTiraspol #DayCenter #CrazyHands #ActiveLongevity
