Our Story

When Communism fell in 1991 and the USSR was unraveling, it was evident that more was at stake than the social, political and economic structure of the former soviet states.

75 years of Communism rendered Russia a broken country without a strong moral code or any hope for its people.

As part of her job, Dr. Olga Polykovskaya (now Lutsenko), an official with the Academy of Pedagogical Science of the USSR in charge of curriculum. was asked by the Russian Minister of Education to research the best morals to teach in Russian schools. After researching various education models, she and her colleagues recommended to the government that a Bible based moral curriculum should be implemented. In 1992, she met with educators to develop this plan and in the process became a Christian.

The Russian government approved her plan for a moral curriculum, but to sustain a Christian presence in her country, she knew that she must form a Russian led organization. This was the genesis of Fond Dobro in Russia, which later emerged in the U.S. as the Kindness Foundation, The Kindness Foundation ("Kindness") is a non-political, non-sectarian Christian education society and does not promote any church or state-church

The Russian government made the decision to provide Biblical education to public school students. Only through God’s grace and her determination was a link established between Russia and western Christians, which was contractually agreed to between the Russian Ministry of Education and the Kindness Foundation and later between the Latvian Ministry of Education and the Kindness Foundation. Soon, the Kindness Foundation signed an agreement with the Ukrainian government as well.

The Kindness Foundation’s mission is to provide the Russian, Latvian and Ukrainian educational systems with Biblical materials and instruction.