Samara Public Non-profit Organisation for Disabled People "Parus Nadezhdy" was established in 2001. It is affiliated to Samara Regional Public Organisation of the All-Russian Society of the Disabled. Its mission is to provide integration of the disabled children of Samara region into society and to promote the ideas of independent life philosophy and social approach to disability. Main goals are: • to protect rights and interests of disabled children; • to provide disabled children with equal opportunities to participate in all spheres of social life; • to integrate disabled people into society. Its activities are focused on: • providing the disabled children and their families with social and psychological support; • organising and conducting conferences, seminars and lectures on the problems of the disabled children; • cooperating with other public organisations dealing with the similar problems; • revealing children’s creative and intellectual abilities Parus Nadezhdy will host one volunteer within this project. Parus Nadezhdy is mainly interested to host people who are interested to work with the disabled people. The theme of the project is one of the most difficult and demanding. Work with people is not easy, especially if we talk about working with people with fewer opportunities and special needs. Very importnant is being positive and open-minded. The same time the volunteer should be ready to do a lot of routine and physically hard work. This requires a lot of patience and tolerence. Through investigating new approaches to working with disabled children – without perfect knowledge of the language – as well as through representing another culture, volunteers will be also able to discover things about themselves that they never knew. Likewise, they will be able to learn about their own culture by comparing it with Russian culture. As volunteers work in local families they will experience the local inner life that is never shown to foreigners.