Change Lives of 50 Mentally Ill for the Better

Every day Russia House provides all the participants (members) of the Clubhouse rehabilitation program with free lunch meals and a variety of snacks from the so-called Clubhouse Snack Bar. Also, members living alone can take food away. An important feature of the Clubhouse rehabilitation approach is that the Clubhouse members participate in all aspects of the program activities working shouler-by-shoulder with program staff. Food preparation is one of the important tasks that members and staff do every day. For the Clubhouse members lunch preparation is a way to learn how to cook delicious meals, to obtain or regain skills of cooking,  to establish meaningful relationships with other people around. Everybody in the Clubhouse respects and appreciates those who cooked lunch. That is why this simple activity - cooking - helps people suffering severe mental illness feel themselves productive and needed. Participation in this "simple" activity helps them regain self-worth and self-confedence. That is why lunch at the Clubhouse is much more than lunch.

Dear Friends, thanks to your donations to Russia House made January to May 2017 we could provide 62 meals. And, as you know now, they were not only meals!