"Charity sees the need, not the cause."

   As I've mentioned in my post about the Valentine's Day, throughout the way we have managed to raise almost 25000Rub. After doing a lot of research, Polina & Karina Semochkina and I have chosen two charity organizations that we've decided to donate the collected money to.
   One of them is called "Kto esli ne ya?" (Polina is the one to thank for finding this organization). Its main aim is to promote the charity program "Gift celebration", that involves volunteers buying birthday gifts for children from orphanages all over Russia. Since Polina was the one to find this organization, she and Karina were the one who volunteered to find out what kind of presents are wanted by the kids and to go to a shopping mall, buy these presents, beautifully wrap them up and then pass them over to the organization's office.
   The second organization we have chosen to sponsor is the dog shelter "The Call of the Wild" (also found by Polina). It's located 20 km outside of Moscow and consists of more than 400 dogs of all sizes and ages. A couple of days before the beginning of the holidays Karina had made announcements about this shelter being in need of warm blankets, and a couple of volunteers had actually decided to help and brought us some warm clothes and blankets. In addition to that, Karina and Polina had used the money raised during the Valentine's day to buy:

• 40 kg of dry dog food
• 16 kg of conserved dog food
• 27 l of drinking water
• flea treatment
• bandages
• antiseptic
• wound healing cream

   After everything has been bought and packed, Karina contacted the owner of the shelter Elena, asking her about all the necessary details regarding our visit to the shelter, that was scheduled for the holidays.