17-23 of October in the Rossoshan diocese, Tatyana Krikhtova and Kirill Markin conducted the sixth field study of parish social work as part of the “Living Communities: Continued” project with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund.
Over 7 days, 24 people from five parish communities from Rossosh, Novaya Kalitva, Kalach, Kamenka and Ostrogozhsk were interviewed. Among the projects that went beyond the parish social activities, the researchers were able to document the military hospital patronage, the organization of local history meetings, the work of an almshouse and a social center. In each case, interviews were conducted not only with the organizers, but also with direct workers within each project, which made it possible to collect interesting cases, as well as take into account the specifics of the implementation of each of them.