To your attention, the nominee of the International Award “Woman of the third Millennium” – Feldman Elena
More than 25 years of work in the field of NGO activities, successful experience in implementing various educational, cultural, social projects, both regional and interregional, international, I have experience in the field of small business development.
She started her career as a volunteer in the Jewish community of Tula at the age of 18. In 2009, she joined the collective of the interregional organization of Jewish women “Kesher” as a project coordinator. She has successfully implemented a number of international and interregional projects for women and their families, for members of Jewish communities in Russia. From July 1 , 2020 – Head of the interregional public organization for the support of Jewish women, their families and the preservation of Jewish culture “Kesher” (Svyaz), whose main goal is to support women, their self-realization and the development of volunteerism, improving the social and economic status of women. The casher operates in 53 cities of Russia. The organization unites more than 2,000 women volunteers and cooperates with more than 700 public, educational, national, state organizations of the NGO. Kesher works in the following areas: women’s initiatives, women’s health, interethnic cooperation, informal Jewish education, support and vocational training of women, communication of generations: mothers-daughters. In 2021-2022 alone, with our support, volunteers conducted more than 2000 diverse events (trainings, master classes, meetings, seminars, volunteer actions).
At the level of the Tula region since 2002, she organized from scratch and was the head of the social computer center “Ort-Keshernet”. In total, more than 15,000 residents of Tula have been trained in the skills and abilities of using modern computer technologies to expand their communication capabilities and solve pressing problems for different target audiences, including middle-aged and elderly people.
Since December 2020, the social and volunteer regional project “School of Women’s Health” has been launched. The project was created by the Tula regional branch of the All-Russian public movement “Medical Volunteers” and the Tula branch of Kesher. The purpose of the project: to increase the level of literacy of girls and women in matters of their own health, means and methods of its careful preservation in order to improve the quality and increase life expectancy; to promote a healthy lifestyle and increase awareness of adolescents and young people in matters of preserving reproductive health.
The project “School of Women’s Health” is a semi-finalist of the international award “We are together” – 2021, held with the support of the President of Russia, in the track “Volunteers and NGOs” in the nomination “Health of the Nation”, a semi-finalist of the award “We are together” – 2022″ in the nomination “Helping people”.
In 2021, 2022, 2023, the project “School of Women’s Health” became the winner of the competition for the provision of grants in the form of subsidies to socially oriented non-profit organizations of the Tula region from the budget of the Tula region in 2021, 2022, 2023.