Home via trans-shipment point
Children from Leningrad region are sent to a shelter in Vsevolojsky district.
They are sent to home districts from there.
METRO Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Editor Alena Bobrovich • alena.bobrovich@metro-russia.com
Shelter for little guest workers
- Is Boksitogosk in Russia? Almir is in year 3 at the shelter school and was living in the settlement of Leningrad region where he will be sent back to. He is unsure, what country is his home now. Especially when all of his schoolmates are foreigners. “Shelter-Transit” is the only organization in the North capital where children without Petersburg registration and Russian citizenship are accommodated. They are taken here by police and the staff of the shelter have to determine a future of the children: provide medical treatment if they need it, arrange their documents for departure from the country and send them back to the parents or to a children’s home.
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- According with our regulation we have to resolve all problems during a month and a half, – Marina Rjabko, director of the “Shelter-Transit”, said to the correspondent of Metro.
- Certainly, it is not always possible. Some of the children live here for a year or more. When we are talking about foreign children in particular. It takes a long time to finalize all documents. Few guest workers attend school, study Russian, engaged in different activity clubs. As a result, some of the homeless children do not want to leave here.
Moldavian children do not want to leave.There are 4 pupils in year three of the shelter school. Almin is from Boksitogosk, brothers Vasja and Andrey together with Tomash are foreigners. They are from Moldova. At the age of nine Tomash found out that children have to attend schools. He likes it. “D.T. and music are very good lessons”, saying Tomash. “Math and Russian are interesting as well but less”. Tomash sign’s very well. Before he was performing on Petersburg streets and raising money for his parents, Moldavian gipsy. Especially good nine-years old Tomash is in Indian songs and dances. The current conditions look fabulous for Tomash. Previously he was living in a forest in a tent together with both adults and children. Tomash does not have any documents, and nobody visit him. However, he is not particularly sad about it he does not want to leave.
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they are sure that they will return home soon. “Gipsy’s from Moldova are the different story”, Marina Rjabko says. “If we get such a child, on the next day we will see the whole Gypsy band outside our windows angrily demanding the return of their offspring. However, they do not have any documents. But later, they magically manage to get some certificates through the police and get their kids back. ”
Hello from Belorussia“How do you think, is this ring made of silver?”, – 14 years old Irina shows her treasure. “This is my friend’s gift.” In the shelter, she introduced herself as Iren. And she likes to be called in a French manner. She is from Belorussia. “I had enough of my parents, I wanted to travel”, she says. She arrived in St. Petersburg in a car with her boyfriend, “We just wanted hang out.” Iren was detained by police and was put in to the “Shelter-Transit”. She is under special control here. The young Belorussian is not allowed to go out as she is considered inclined to escape: she has attempted to run away from the territory. “I have just wanted to visit my friend, who gave me the ring”, – Iren is saying. “It is boring for me here, not enough air! But they don’t let me out”. Iren, like all other kids, who are in the shelter, waits for her documents to be completed so she will be allowed to return home. Meanwhile, she has to go to school, do sit-ups in gym, draw and solve equations.
African braidsThere is a “detective” department in the “Shelter-Transit”, here they discover the truth about the “lost children”. – The kids do lie sometimes, – Marina Rjabko saying. – How to understand that they are not telling truth? It is not possible to explain, our specialists just have got a professional intuition which works in the same way as a lie detector. Besides, there are official requests and medical examinations which are needed to determine an age of an arrival. Sometimes, our wards could drop down five years to avoid institution for adults.
Like this, our colleagues made out an Iranian boy, who stated he is 16 years old. After examination, doctors absolutely precisely determine that the Iranian boy is no less than 20 years old. He was transferred to the migration service. But the most interesting is about two Africans. The two black-skinned girls were taken to the police. They said that they were from Ethiopia. They turned out in St. Petersburg on their way to Holland and ran away from a man who escorted them. They asked to be considered as refugees during an interview at the Home office. Girls were temporary transferred to the Foundling hospital where they have lived for half a year. - The girls are strange indeed, we have not discovered the whole truth about them, – told the Foundling hospital deputy director Tatiana Gubskaya to the Metro reporter. - The most astonishing discovery we found was that they are not girls at all. When Ruta and Krim (the names changed) said that they are 12 and 13 years old, nobody believed them. A medical expertise was assigned to the black-skinned friends. – They were placed in a separate room, – recalling teachers. – At first, it was interesting for our Russian girls to be with them. Ethiopians braided everyone’s hairs. But everybody got bored of them after a while.
Ruta and Krime were sleeping during the day but by the evening they were getting very active – walked to and fro along the corridors, were prayed and disturbed everyone sleeping. – Ruta, the youngest, was unwell all the time, she appears to have a disease known as beriberi due to the lack of sun. We treated her. The Ethiopian’s could not eat the same food as the others. Therefore we had to get them a little more fruit. Finally the medical expertise came. The doctors determined that they girls are well over 20 and one of them had even given birth. However, the Africans were still insisting that they were only 14 years old. As a result they were transferred from the Foundling hospital to the Red Cross division and now they are being prepared to be sent to another country. To tell the truth it is not Ethiopia, nevertheless they were given the refugee status.
Children from all over the Russian and the world are waiting here for their return to the motherland.
Music is the favourite lessons of the shelter habitants. They easily learn how to play musical instruments and sing. They get great pleasure from it.
PROBLEM
The same faces show up at the “Shelter-Transit” time and time again. Some of the teenagers travel back and forth between the establishment and their children’s community or children’s shelter. – They don’t like to be there, so they are running away to St. Petersburg for a better life, – telling the shelter director. – Of course they are getting to us. We are preparing all documents again to send the poor children to their place of residence. This is a vicious circuit. If we were to throw away all the bureaucracy, we could focus on the tragic story at hand – the poor children affected. A child, who was deprived of parents love and attention. However, it’s not only foreign children and kids from problem families that arrive here at the “Shelter-Transit”. Children quarrel with parents and leave. For example, from Moscow to St Petersburg. Here the money is running out and they are getting the police field of vision. Another category is teenage football fans going to football matches without the parents. Although the parents come and collect the children very quickly.
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