The church helped open a sewing workshop for people with disabilities in the Nizhny Novgorod regiontranslated

The sewing workshop “Living Thread” opened at the church in honor of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the city of Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod region.

The workshop was opened with the financial support of the Synodal Department for Charity, because The workshop project was among the winners of the II Competition of Church Family Projects of the Synodal Department for Charity, reports the Department’s website.

Now in the workshop, children and adults with disabilities will learn cutting and sewing. Each mentee will work under the guidance of a volunteer.

“Thanks to the support provided, our students will be able to create basic things, and thus will feel needed,” noted project manager Larisa Vasilyeva. – Now we are planning to sew sets of bed linen, so that we can then take them to social wards at hospitals where lonely sick people are located. We plan to pass on this help along with the guys whose hands it was created.

Using the funds allocated to the workshop (300,000 rubles), sewing machines, equipment for cutting and wet-heat treatment, tools, educational materials and fabrics were purchased.

It is clarified that the project was opened on the basis of an inclusive group...