Then, thank heaven, we met with Alexei Borisovich Tingusov, who is now the second leader of EIC, and found interested children. Out of the initial 680 people there were only seventeen who expressed their willingness to join us but these seventeen were very committed to joining an ecologists club. Then other children came. After that first class of 17 more than 2,500 children have studied at the Center. Currently there are 300 pupils.
Children feel lonely now.
Parents have to solve their own problems, schoolteachers all the more so. Pupils come to us trying to do at least something. Looking for self-realization, interesting time and friends, children flock from all over the city. At the General Meeting those, who want, become members, but beforehand there is a probation period. Here children find their second family, seniors help juniors preparing together night programs.