About Us

Our Vision

To restore thousands of lives branded as hopeless, to their God-given potential thus breaking the cycle of poverty and abandonment among Russia’s 10 million children at risk and turning them into productive citizens.

Our Mission

To find teenage orphans who have recently left the state system and offer them real hope for a future along with the education and skills to secure it.

The Need

Numbers help illustrate the grim reality…

Russia has 10 million children-at-risk. Once they turn seventeen, orphans are moved out of institutions and forced to make a way for themselves. Most don’t succeed. The result? More orphans and street children in Russia today than in the years following World War II.

135,000 children are orphaned every year.

Between 10,000 and 15,000 orphans leave the Russian state orphanage system annually.

An estimated 40% of post-institution orphans become alcohol and drug addicts, 40% end up in the criminal world, and 10% commit suicide.

Our Core Program / A Holistic Approach

Our core program is a residential program. Six to eight young adult orphans live together in a typical Russian apartment and function as a family along with full-time mentors who address the following life areas:

• Practical Formation
  Harbor staff model and coach residents in life skills such as cooking, nutrition, personal hygiene, budgeting, housekeeping, and family living.
• Spiritual Formation
  A Russian pastor provides encouragement in the journey of finding God and meaning in life.
• Emotional and Relational Formation
  Psychologists help participants wrestle with their unique issues in individual and group sessions.
• Educational Formation
  Staff members guide participants through completion of their high school education and eligibility for technical college or university studies.
• Vocational Formation
  Professionals provide basic competency in technology, carpentry, English, sewing, and cosmetology.