About 45% of Russians give charity to orphans
Published: September 16, 2005
About 45% of Russians offer help to orphans in one way or another, a state-run opinion poll center said Friday.
The poll, conducted by the Russian Opinion Research Center, showed that 25% of Russians gave money or food to homeless children and 18% occasionally made monetary or clothing donations to orphanages, but only 1%-2% adopted or sponsored orphans.
A total of 26% said they might adopt children in the future, whereas another 26% said their low income and housing and health problems prevented them from adopting children.
Twenty-nine percent of respondents said they did not need to adopt because they had their own children.
The survey was conducted June 11-12, 2005 and included 1,592 people in 153 cities and towns in 46 regions, territories, and republics of Russia. The margin of error did not exceed 3.4%.
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