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A testimony on disabled children in Russia by Olga Erokhina
In Russia, children with multidisabilities were long regarded as uneducable. Today, most of them are still institutionalized from their earliest years in state-run orphanages in which they do not receive any adequate care or treatment.
Leonid Moghilevski, social worker in Moscow, was one of the first ones to have paid attention to these forsaken children. He offered them his time, took care of them and truly believed they were able to blossom. And he was right.
In this article, Olga Erokhina recounts her incursion in an orphanage where disabled children are at last considered as human beings.
