The Naked Heart Foundation is a charity that aims to ensure that every child in Russia has a loving family and a safe and stimulating place to 📝play. It does this through creating safe and inspiring play facilities in impoverished areas, supporting foster families and families raising children with disabilities, funding NGOs that work with such families, preventing the abandonment of children in Russia and changing attitudes towards disability. [1]
The organisation was founded in 2004 by model and actress 📝Natalia Vodianova in response to the trauma she witnessed among children who had survived the 2004 Beslan School siege and, more generally, her perception of the importance of play for children.