It is difficult to find a person who has not heard anything about the Lisa Alert search and rescue team. The year 2010 was remembered by many not for fires or abnormal heat, but for the search for Liza Fomkina, who disappeared in Orekhovo-Zuevo on September 13. A five-year-old girl got lost in the forest, and for five days almost no one looked for her. Lisa was found, but it was already too late. Shocked by this tragic story, the people who responded to the cry for help and almost independently organized the search decided to unite and create a search and rescue team. On October 14, 2010, the Lisa Alert PSO was born. This day became the birthday of a volunteer detachment named after the deceased girl.Volunteers of this detachment search for missing people, mainly children and the elderly. In November 2018, the squad celebrated its eighth anniversary. The squad took part in more than 40,000 searches. And in 2019, 1,342 search requests were already processed, and 942 people were found alive.
"Lisa Alert"is not only a search for missing people, but also a school of harmless advice for children and their parents. Current search engines conduct game trainings, lectures, quests for children and parent meetings.On May 13, volunteers from the LisaAlert School visited the 3rd grade B1 Youth Army students. Instructors They told students what to do if they got lost at a public event, did not have time to get on the bus after their parents, how to get ready for the forest and how to behave in it, why they need a secret word, and much more.
Young Army members took an active part in the conversation. We discussed all the most important safety rules: if you got lost - stay where you are, if you decided to ask for help - ask them to call your adults, tell them where you are - they will definitely find you! Under no circumstances should you leave with strangers, even if you have asked for help or offered something. They repeated the emergency phone number.
The search engines who conducted the event were very welcoming, friendly and responsive. They shared very valuable advice. The students thanked the volunteers for the fascinating and useful conversation, and the volunteers in return wished them success in everything, and, of course, never get lost!
I was always scared to even think about what could happen if my child got lost. But one day I watched a short video in which children turn to adults and ask them to teach them to say “no” to strangers; do not allow them to approach water or go into the forest without adults and teach them what to do if they get lost. After this short video, I promised myself that I would regularly talk to children about safe behavior.
But theory is one thing, practice is another. No, I didn’t intend to “lose” the children on purpose in order to train them. We needed training and a game. And an opportunity presented itself quite soon: on my Instagram feed I saw an announcement that the Lisa Alert School was holding an anniversary quest for #HarmlessTips. Using the link, I registered my six-year-old son and myself as an accompanying adult.
What we check:
Quest #HarmlessTips from the Lisa Alert School
Where:
M. Business center, Presnenskaya embankment. 6 k2, Empire Tower, entrance 1
Price:
For free
Age restrictions:
VKontakte page:
Location and organization
The 10th quest “Harmless Advice” from the Lisa Alert School took place in a stunning place - in one of the skyscrapers of Moscow City. It's just a stone's throw from the metro, and it's simply impossible to get lost. On the territory of Afimall there is paid parking for those who come by personal car.
When I entered the Empire Tower building, I immediately saw an even line of adults and children at the turnstile in front of the elevator hall. Access was strictly according to lists, that is, only those children and adults who had pre-registered for the event could get to the quest. We were greeted by charming minions - that is, volunteers dressed in costumes of characters from the cartoon "Despicable Me". The line was moving quite briskly, so there were no impatient children’s questions in the spirit of “when?” I have not heard.
At the entrance, everyone was given an evacuation plan. That's it!
At the elevator we were again met by a volunteer dressed in a minion costume. I had a complete feeling that we were being led by the hand - the meeting of children and their parents was so smoothly organized. This thought made my soul feel so calm and warm that I wanted to go up to each of the volunteers and shake hands.
Meanwhile, the flow of people did not stop, there were more and more of them...
On the 29th floor, where the quest took place, guests were registered: the children had their name and parents’ phone number written down on a badge and were assigned a group number.
Since there were a lot of people who wanted to take the quest, the children were divided into groups of 8-10 people - they had to wait their turn before the children were invited to the hall. The children left with the instructor, and the adults could stay in the waiting area or listen to a lecture on child safety.
I was amazed how everything was so clear and coherent. The volunteers acted together as systems of one organism. But each of them does this from the bottom of their hearts and expects only one thing: that there will be much less searches... And those that do take place will certainly end with the words “Found, alive!”
How the quest went
Groups of children moved from one location to another. Each of these points had its own instructor, who gave the guys a portion of harmless advice. The children practiced their skills and even received interesting homework. I noticed that some of the children were distracted and tried to get away from the group, but the accompanying instructor carefully returned them to their place. But mostly the children actively participated - answering questions and completing tasks.
The quest lasted about an hour, but it was so dynamic that the guys simply had no time to get bored.
At the end, all participants received diplomas and instructions, thanks to which children will be able to repeat at home what they learned at the quest.
Firstly, classes are taught by experienced, active search engines. That is, these are not theorists, but practitioners.
Secondly, the Lisa Alert School does not have a specific, regular schedule. Classes are held either at the initiative of the detachment (but volunteers are no less busy people than you and me - only they, in addition to family and work, also have a huge number of search tasks), or by invitation (to school, kindergarten, library, etc. . p.) That is, getting into classes is already a great success, don’t miss the chance - follow the announcements.
By the way, many of the parents with whom I spoke at Empire are not the first to bring their children to these classes. And it is right. Children (and adults, too, for that matter) don’t remember everything the first time. And if today you enthusiastically come up with a secret word, shout loudly and take a whistle and chocolate into the forest, then tomorrow or the day after tomorrow you may not remember all this.
Much of the knowledge gained in class can truly save lives.
"Lisa Alert" will teach children how not to get lost...
The official launch of the “Lisa Alert School” took place in Stavropol, within the framework of which volunteers come to schools, kindergartens and conduct large-scale trainings, lectures, quests and other events.
On February 15, the first lesson-lecture was held for first-graders of MBOU Secondary School No. 6 in Stavropol. Lisa Alert volunteers told first-graders about safety rules in the city and in the forest in an accessible, playful manner. Children learned what to do if they got lost in transport or in a large shopping center, how to communicate with strangers, what dangers may lie in wait on the street and at home, and how to avoid them. The first-graders did an excellent job and at the end of the lecture received diplomas as security experts.
There is a sad practice of real experiments that were carried out in Russian cities. Lisa Alert volunteers, with the consent of the parents, tried to take away unfamiliar children. 19 out of 20 children left without thinking about the consequences. Today, the only way to counter this is to teach children safety rules and repeat them from time to time.
The lectures are given by volunteers from the Lisa Alert squad, who take part in the search and have first-hand experience of how children get lost. All lectures, as well as work on searching for missing people, are free. The materials used in the classes are not theory, but practical knowledge that was developed based on the experience of the unit. Lectures are designed for children aged 5 to 11 years.
Volunteers can be invited to any kindergartens and schools in the region. To do this, you need to call the hotline 8-800-700-54-52 or find the PSO “Liza Alert” of the Stavropol Territory on social networks and leave a request for a lesson.
Reference:
The Liza Alert search and rescue team was created in November 2010 after the tragically ended search for a five-year-old girl, Liza Fomkina, in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district of the Moscow region. The volunteers who came to search for Lisa and her aunt decided to do everything in their power to prevent such situations from happening again, and united into a detachment. The new organization was named after Lisa. To date, over the seven years of its existence, more than 20,000 people have been found alive with the participation of the detachment. Last year, more than 10,000 people participated in the search for missing persons with the Lisa Alert team on more than one occasion. In addition to directly searching for those lost in the forest and in the city, the detachment is also involved in prevention - conducts classes for children and parents on safety rules, distributes information materials on how to get ready for the forest, what a child should do if he is lost, and training - several times a day. Large-scale exercises are held every year, trainings are constantly ongoing on various search topics: mastering a navigator, interacting with aviation, leading a lost person out of the forest by telephone, first aid training, information retrieval training, and so on. The squad provides exclusively volunteer assistance; Lisa Alert does not have accounts or virtual accounts; the squad does not accept donations.
In the Stavropol Territory, the Liza Alert PSO began work in October 2017.
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In our turbulent times, it is very important to prepare a child for correct behavior in society and protect him from possible emergency situations. Therefore, I have long wanted to enroll my child in classes at the Lisa Alert School, a public organization designed to help find missing children.But somehow everything didn’t work out: either we couldn’t or didn’t have time to register. This Saturday “the stars aligned.”
The classes took place at the Azimut Hotel, on Olimpiysky Prospekt, literally next to the Olimpiysky sports complex, Prospekt Mira metro station. Entrance to the hotel is free; you need to take the elevator to the 4th floor and go to the registration desks.
Classes were held from 12 noon for younger children, and began at 15:00 for 8-10 year old children, divided into 4 groups. There was a complete pandemonium of children and parents on the floor. There seems to be enough space, but for some reason the ceilings are low, it’s stuffy, there’s nowhere to sit, and classes, apparently, started from the very beginning quite late, so the time for all groups has shifted.
Our 23rd group went to the quest only at 15:19, so even before the lesson my daughter was tired and came out of there without legs.
As for the lesson itself, a group of children walk with an accompanying person around the “stations”, there were about seven of them, where the instructors talk and show visual aids about behavior in different life situations: on the street, in a shopping center, if you are left at home alone, on the water , in the forest, when colliding with a stranger, in transport.
The child knew some things, some were new. But even if the child knows, then repeating these seemingly truisms will not hurt, because... in extreme situations, a lot of things that you seemed to know fly out of your head, and a person falls into a panic. Therefore, all these rules must be literally imprinted into the brain. So completing this lesson in a playful way is useful.
The lesson lasts for about an hour, after which the group is taken to the School banner, where a group photo is taken and a diploma of completion of training is issued. The classes were designed for children up to 10 years old. My daughter, now entering 5th grade, was the oldest in the group.
Classes for parents were also held there, but in the continuous hum of voices on the floor, we did not hear the announcement of the lecture, so my husband and I did not attend it. We found out from our daughter when she came out of class and asked us about it. It would probably be a good idea to inform parents about the adult activity right away, even at the registration table, rather than shout it out, straining your voice, when a group of children is taken away.
So we whiled away the time waiting for the child downstairs, in the main hall, where the air conditioning worked and it was more comfortable.
I was especially pleased with the remark: “Who is Kira’s mother? I have a question for you!” - the instructor told me when handing out the children to parents.
Part 1. Useful!
The event took place in the cozy and bright Museum of Russian Impressionism.
We arrived at the appointed time, registered, Kira got into the “15 Fox” team and then an unpleasant surprise awaited us: at that time “8 Fox” had just started and a long and painful wait lay ahead of us.
BUT! Representatives of the museum and Lisa Alert came out of this situation with dignity and we were offered to go on a free tour of the museum’s exhibition. For which many thanks and low bow to them! :)
We had a wonderful guide, Polina.
The excursion was aimed at children and the theme was four paintings according to the number of seasons.
Gust of wind. Alexey Grishchenko; Winter sun. Alexey Isupov; Still life with grapes and teapot. Nikolay Gorlov; Autumn forest. Stanislav Zhukovsky.
Moreover, the children not only looked at the pictures, but also actively participated in the conversation; they had to remember the rules of conduct in museums, talk about their treasured collections, train their attentiveness and memory, guess what was kept in a closed box, etc.
However, I was also very interested. Time flew by quickly: we returned from the excursion and 10 minutes later our children were already assembled into a team.
May 25th is International Day of Remembrance for Missing Children. On this day, exhibitions and various interactive programs are held. An experiment is regularly conducted there: whether children will leave with strangers or not. Most parents are confident that their child is reasonable and will not go with a stranger. In fact, it turns out that most children leave.....
Representatives of Lisa Alert told parents about this and many important things at the Parents’ Meeting while our children were completing the “Harmless Advice” quest. Of course, the 3-minute video about children who have not yet been found was very frightening, but I, for example, heard a lot of useful and completely obvious advice that actually lies on the surface, but we don’t think about it.
This event was very relevant for Kira and me: literally over the past few weeks, there have been a couple of cases when my daughter, having lost sight of me, was going to run to look for me, and in one case she was going to pass by the guard with a frame and go the way we came to the museum, to the metro.
Briefly the main points:
It is necessary to take a photo of the child when leaving home, so that there is a current photo in current clothes, with all abrasions, etc. This is especially true if you go to public events, in a forest, etc.
The child must learn TWO parent phone numbers! Mom’s number may be busy, because at this time the mother may frantically call friends in search of the child.
It is necessary to agree with the child on the word - password. In an emergency, when you resort to the help of people not in your close circle, the stranger who came to pick up your child must tell him the password.
The parents are looking for the child, not the child for the parents. A child, if he is lost, must stay in place and wait for his parents.
Who can I turn to for help? Only to the police or to a person with a child.
Dress your children brightly! It is easier to find a child in a pink sweater and blue jeans than in a white T-shirt and black trousers.
Timing. When a child begins to move independently, for example, from school, it is necessary to develop a safe route. Important! If, for example, the journey from school takes 30 minutes, then if the child has been gone for 1 hour, then you already need to start looking for him! There's no need to wait any longer! You need to start by calling your close circle.
Close circle: parents and grandparents, teachers, educators, etc. Those. those with whom the child is in constant contact.
A call to 112 is a full-fledged call to the police.
If the application is not accepted, then you must call 112 again and leave a complaint. There are no 3 days! Call Lisa Alert at 88007005452.
You can call 112 without a SIM card.
We teach a child to say NO to an adult and be sure to scream! If the child is not comfortable or is afraid, then he should say NO!
Social network. When a child begins to be interested in this issue, it is better to allow him to create one page on social networks. Allow! Because he will do it anyway, but without your permission and you won’t know about it. *The age question remains open for me*
Forest. What you need to take with you to the forest: phone, water, snack, matches (you can make a fire, the smoke from which can be seen by a helicopter). The phone must be charged; if you are lost, you need to save the phone's charge. You need bright clothes in the forest! Camouflage is not bright clothing! Without water, dehydration occurs very quickly, which causes auditory and visual hallucinations.
Now, together with Sberbank and Beeline, a program has been developed where any lost child can turn to the employees of these organizations for help and they will help him. Work has now begun in this direction with Pyaterochka. I also saw information leaflets in Vkusville.
Upon completion, children receive a Diploma of completion from the Lisa Alert School.
Part 3. Enjoyable!
Using the same (free) tickets, we also visited the exhibition “Nikolai Meshcherin. A way out of the hustle and bustle."
A master of landscape and lover of Russian nature, the son of the founder of the Danilovskaya manufactory, it is clear what the future awaited him, but he preferred painting, which he came to through his passion for photography. Moreover, what is interesting: N. Meshcherin did not receive an art education, but was self-taught, who studied by taking private lessons.
She wrote her best works in her Dugino Estate, which is 28 miles from Moscow. The artist practically never left his estate, his artist friends often visited him, and even two workshops were equipped in the house: one for the owner, and the second for guests.
The exhibition also presents works by the artist’s friends who lived and worked in Dugino: Igor Grabar, Isaac Levitan, Vasily Perepletchikov, Alexey Korin, Alexey Stepanov, Manuil Aladzhalov, Apollinary Vasnetsov.
Wonderful exhibition! Bright colors, not a single stroke of black paint :). Such peace of mind comes :). The exhibition runs until May 19.
It was a very necessary and useful event! I am usually wary of going to free events, fearing crowds and confusion, but here the organization turned out to be beyond praise and the organizers promptly responded to emerging problems. I learned a lot of information for myself that is worth reflecting on, and we went to the exhibition :).
I recommend subscribing to the news of the Museum and Lisa Alert to keep abreast of events :).