Nadya Abela is the founder and CEO of the Nadezda Foundation in the Russia and the UK
Philanthropist Nadya Abela established the Nadezda Foundation in her hometown of Tver in Russia in 2015 to provide disadvantaged children with much needed medical care and educational support. In 2019, a sister foundation was registered in the UK. In the first of our new philanthropy series, we speak to Nadya about her motivations, the process of setting up a children’s charity and the challenges presented by the global pandemic
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Nadya Abela
LUX: When did you first have the idea to set up your Nadezda charity fund in Russia and why" What prompted you to also to launch the foundation in UK" ?

Nadya Abela: When my youngest son was born here in London, I start realising more and more that being a parent is enormous responsibility and hard work. I felt lucky that my boys had good medical and educational infrastructure available for them here in UK. When I start comparing that to what was available back then for children in Tver, Russia, I realised there was a huge gap between the two. Follow LUX on Instagram: luxthemagazine
I flew home in the summer of 2015  and visited a few children’s hospitals, orphanages and educational centres for underprivileged children. Right there and then I decided to set up a foundation that would concentrate on children’s health and education issues in my hometown and other cities in Russia.
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