After retiring in 2011, I began to actively attend the elderly club in the Nikolaev Jewish Culture Society and one day I decided to help young volunteers in organization of the club’s work. Now I am an active participant of the “Wings of Kindness” project ruled by the Mykolayiv Volunteer Community. I do invitations to lectures and shabbat as well as congratulate the birthday people. During telephone conversations with inactive people we talk about their health and life. They are happy to talk with me, I try to lift their spirit. After all, I’m a sociable person and can not just stay at home, so I want to give people kindness.

I am here In the community from early childhood, I grew up here. I have been a volunteer since the foundation of the Volunteer Center. In volunteering I can be useful to people, because I care about the social problems of the citizens and the city in general. The projects, that we have implemented, have really become a valuable help and support for a short period of the existence of our Volunteer Center.

After retiring, I worked in the social service of Zavodskoy district of Nikolaev for 14 years. I know how to cope with difficulties and various unforeseen circumstances, which lonely people have to face. The Mykolayiv Volunteer Community has started its work in the Mykolayiv Society of Jewish Culture since 2015, and I joined this movement. I always try to help people, because I think that we make the world a little bit better by doing good deeds.

In 2001, I came to Hesed and worked in the “Parcels” and “Medicine” programs. I work as a volunteer in the “Help Line” program  – I call Hesed clients. I have been a volunteer in the Mykolayiv Volunteer Community since 2015. It’s hard to imagine my life without volunteering. I enjoy helping people in need.

I have been a volunteer in the council of pensioners at the Equator factory since 1991. From the very first day I am in the Mykolayiv Volunter Community.

My main volunteer activity includes such duties: visiting sick pensioners at their homes, in hospitals, inviting pensioners for holiday matinees at the factory club, distributing the newspaper Vecherniy Nikolaev to 15 disabled people, delivering gifts to disabled pensioners after the holidays on the Equator factory, giving presents of the factory district executive committee to disabled pensioners, visiting a single disabled grandmother etc.. In addition I participate in all the master classes organized by our volunteer center and I prepare gifts for our wards.

Volunteer activity inspires me, I make good deeds and give positive emotions to all those in need and thereby make our world good and happy.