“We can’t even admit everyone who wants to enroll,” says Valentina Galkina, deputy director of Printing College No. 56, located in a building squeezed between Petrovka and Bolshaya Dmitrovka in central Moscow. “We have 200 students. Orphans from children’s homes also study here. There is a waiting list from special education schools: we train children with developmental disabilities as bookbinders, and there are currently 57 such students. Employment after graduation is 100 percent—everyone, even children with diagnosed conditions, earns their own living. Moving the college to Butovo (a distant district on the outskirts of Moscow) would effectively mean shutting it down and abandoning these children to their fate.” http://www.izvestia.ru/moscow/article3097073/ Izvestia on the problem of moving vocational schools out of the city center, an issue we are now actively working on.

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