About us

About us

The Charitable Foundation, "Change One Life" assists children from orphanages and child-care institutions to find families and live fulfilling lives.
In addition, we provide adoptive and natural parents with all of the necessary information and support from specialists. Such comprehensive assistance reduces the volume of abandonments, which could result in children returning to the orphanage system.

The Foundation provides all services concerning assistance in making family arrangements for orphan-children as well as support for adoptive families free of charge. This is only possible with the continued help of many of those who choose to be part of the solution and make contributions to the Foundation's programs.



What do we do?
We help orphan-children to find their new homes.
How do we do it?
We create tens of thousands of personal video profiles about orphans all over Russia.
What else?
Our specialists at the Foundation readily consult and support adoptive and foster parents.
Results?
Every four hours a child from our database finds a family. Many thousands of children are already home!
Our founders
  • Vyacheslav Taran
    Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors in Libertex Group. Founder and Rector till 2003 of International Investment and trading Academy. Author of "Play the stock market is easy?!", "FOREX CLUB — win-win revolution".
  • Oleg Reps
    Founder, Member of the Board of Directors in Libertex Group.
  • Denis Gordeev
    Founder, Member of the Board of Directors in BBR Bank.
  • Julia Yudina
    Director of Change One Life Charitable Foundation in 2012-2017.
Our ambassadors
  • Sergei Bezrukov and Anna Matison
    Sergey Bezrukov - National artist of Russia, Anna Matison - playwriter
  • Victoria Isakova
    Russian theater and movie actress
  • Zoya Kukushkina
    Child top model, designer
Our trustees
  • Ekaterina Dyachenko
    Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors online-platform for export of Russian manufacturers' goods B2B-Export.com
  • Olga Suslova
    Head of Sales department in Google
  • Dmitry Orlov
    Chairman of Board of Directors in RuDIVE Group
  • Vladimir Pirozhkov
    Russian designer
  • Julia Vysotskaya
    Tv presenter and actress
Our team
Meet the stuff of Change one life Foundation
  • Yana Leonova
    Director
  • Julia Kolesnichenko
    Head of information and education projects
  • Ekaterina Fedosova
    Development manager
  • Iolanta Kachaeva
    Editor
  • Kirill Lazarev
    Technical director
  • Natalia Nevzorova
    Database analyst
  • Maria Paltseva
    Head of ProFamily project
  • Irina Khlopova
    Program manager
The people say...
  • I want to say thank you so much! I found my little son thanks to the video profile on your website. Our kid has been with us for more than a year. And this video is a memory. Special thanks to Ekaterina for her responsiveness.
    Ekaterina
  • I want to thank you all from our big (already) family! We arrived safely home. We arrived only yesterday, but if feels like we have never being apart!) Without your foundation it would never happen, we would never meet our child! Thank you personally for the fact that you just answered all the questions that immediately! Thank you very much!!!
    Vyacheslav
  • I'd like to express our particular gratitude on behalf of our family. This week, we adopted and brought our girl home from Irkutsk oblast thanks to seeing her video profile. With her previously only having such an official-looking photo, like from the state databank, she could hardly expect to find parents in the near future. We certainly would never have met that wonderful child. It's a very long way to Irkutsk oblast and I don't think that many people would want to make the decision to go there having only one photo of the child, especially a such a poor and unnatural one.
    Natalia
  • This is a wonderful project and such a necessary one. It's very important to know that, in case of emergency you can ask for help and that you can always secure a stress-free hour or two to take care of your own affairs. Besides, it's often impossible to solve some problems in the presence of a child/children. Of course, if you have grandparents, you might not need this service so much, but I, for example, don't have any grandparents, and for that reason, in a lot of cases this project is a real salvation for me.
    Varvara
Not everyone can adopt,
but everyone can help
Not everyone can adopt,
but everyone can help