253 million rubles have been donated to charity projects over the three years of operation of the church's online donation platform mirom.help. These funds were used to support social projects of the Russian Orthodox Church in 87 dioceses throughout the country and abroad.
"The Let's Help platform has become an important tool for the development of the Church's social ministry in the regions," said Archpriest Mikhail Potokin, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service. — Both large organizations and very small charitable initiatives can receive support on our platform. Most of the fees are opened by regional projects that help people in various parts of the country and abroad. Many fees on the platform are related to our assistance in Donbas. There are assistance centers for the Patriarchal Humanitarian Mission in 12 cities. Volunteers collect targeted requests from civilians, a collection is opened on the platform, and employees use the collected funds to purchase everything they need."
During the three years of operation, 349 social project collections from 87 dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church were opened on the "Let's Help" platform.
The main part (94%) of the total number of fees were initiatives of regional social projects, 6% of the total number of fees were allocated to aid projects in Moscow. For three years of the platform's operation on the mirom website.More than 50,000 people have donated to help.
The largest collection during the existence of the platform was a collection to help refugees from the Kursk region and other border regions in 2024. At that time, 18.9 million rubles were spent on food and basic necessities. Also, one of the largest was the collection for flood victims in the Orenburg region. With the support of Channel One, which reported on the collection in the Vremya program and in the finale of the Voice show, 10.5 million rubles were received to help residents of Orsk and other flooded settlements.
Religious and other non-profit organizations affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church can open fees on the "Help" platform. Each collection is verified — documents, medical reports and estimates are checked before publication. The website publishes reports on the results of each collection.
According to a study by the Culture of Charity Foundation, 2.57 billion rubles were collected for charity through 17 online donation platforms in 2025. The annual volume of donations on the portal of the Moscow government charity service amounted to about 100 million rubles. 43.7 million in a year were donated to charity projects on the Planet crowdfunding platform. In 2025, users transferred 74 million rubles to support church social projects on the "Let's Help" platform.
"Let's Help" is an online platform for helping people in need and supporting church social initiatives. The platform was created by the Synodal Department for Charity of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2023. You can sign up for a regular donation to the "Help" platform on the mirom.help website.
The Synodal Department for Charity coordinates more than 4,000 church social institutions and initiatives: shelters for the homeless and women in crisis, projects to help people with disabilities, centers for the dependent, volunteer services, humanitarian aid centers. The 24-hour church social assistance hotline +7(800) 70-70-222 receives over 7,000 calls per month with various requests and needs.