GIVING HOPE TO DRUG USERS IN MOSCOW: THE ANDREY RYLKOV FOUNDATION
Director(s): István Gábor Takács and Péter Sárosi
Producer(s): István Gábor Takács and Péter Sárosi
2012 | 20 min | Hungary | Russia
Languages: Russian
“People come here to inject because they can easily run away if the police show up,” says Vova, a street outreach worker with the Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF). There are many hotspots that outreach workers of the ARF visit every day to provide sterile injecting equipment, condoms and other forms of help for these young people. ARF is the first and only NGO distributing clean needles and syringes among injecting drug users on the streets of Moscow – with zero government funding and support.